[kklarin]

When I attempt to install Windows 7, it takes 45 minutes to run a compatibility check. It then comes up with 15 programs on my computer that it says might not run properly after the upgrade. Most of these programs I never use, However, many of them don't appear in my uninstall menu. Can I go ahead and install Windows 7 even if I don't uninstall the incompatible program?

[calvin-c]

I'd do a clean install, personally. Sure, you'll have to reinstall the programs you use-but that way you should get only the programs you use. I've always been suspicious of programs that don't show up in the Add/Remove Programs list. As a programmer I know that there are some, usually quite small, designed to be portable so they don't 'install' as such. But I've never run across one that either runs or 'installs' itself. That doesn't mean they don't exist, I just have run across them. So, if that's what we have then these are programs you installed-and since they aren't, that means they're programs that *do* install, but manage to hide themselves-not good.

Either way you should back up your data.

[Leec65]

Just installed win 7 .This is what I find that when Iinstalled 7 over my xp that 7 maded a new file call "windows.old" looking at the file it was the old xp install at about 25 gigs so by the time I install all my programs back in the install was about 50 gigs.What I did was wipe the drive reinstall xp then installed 7 the install now was down to about 25 gigs with all my programs which is right oh one other thing I did all my files that I needed I back up on another drive and just tranfar them back into 7