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    Windows 7 information needed.

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by EricaL, Oct 27, 2009.

  1. EricaL

    EricaL Notebook Consultant

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    Hey guys, I hope you can help me out here.

    Will the drivers for Windows Vista work with Windows 7? Also, are there any softwares conflict?

    Thank you.
     
    EricaL, Oct 27, 2009
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    andygb40 Notebook Deity

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    In general, if you have vista drivers they will work for the majority of hardware under Win7. That is of course if you need them. I have installed Windows 7 on 30 different PC's so far this week and Win7 found most of the drivers each machine required. The only ones that it didn't find drvers for were 1 nvidia geforce 8500 and a texas instruments flash card reader, these installed fine with the vista drivers though.
    As far as software confilcts are concerned, thats down to you as an end user. You will undoubtedly use different software to me so I cannot possibly comment on whether ther will be any conflicts.
     
    andygb40, Oct 27, 2009
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