Which Windows version to install on new build?

powlesY · 16 Dec 2010 at 19:12

Is Windows 7 the standard now?

I'm still using XP at the moment. Not sure whether to stick with it, use a Vista licence that isn't being used or fork out for Windows 7.

BunnyKillBot · 16 Dec 2010 at 19:15

powlesY said:
Is Windows 7 the standard now?

I'm still using XP at the moment. Not sure whether to stick with it, use a Vista licence that isn't being used or fork out for Windows 7.

Vista was, is and will always be an absolutely dog. If you have the choice, stay clear. 7 Is definitely the way to go

gillywibble · 16 Dec 2010 at 19:16

Definitely 7. It's great.

I wouldn't go anywhere near XP now.

powlesY · 16 Dec 2010 at 19:19

Windows 7 it is then. What version should i look to get? There's a lot more than i thought there'd be.

Bony Maloney · 16 Dec 2010 at 19:25

Windows 7 Home Premium flavour should do it.

j.col · 16 Dec 2010 at 22:30

Bony Maloney said:
Windows 7 Home Premium flavour should do it.

+1 for home premium.

jake108 · 16 Dec 2010 at 22:57

Bony Maloney said:
Windows 7 Home Premium flavour should do it.

+2 for home premium.

unwashed potato! · 16 Dec 2010 at 23:24

the advice i hear often is if you have to ask which version then home premium should be what you want.

chaosophy · 17 Dec 2010 at 08:57

Go x64 as well.

Glaucus · 17 Dec 2010 at 09:09

BunnyKillBot said:
Vista was, is and will always be an absolutely dog.

Vista was brilliant.

but get W7HP 64bit.

Hedge · 17 Dec 2010 at 21:32

Im building a new pc soon too but I was wondering, if I buy Home Premium 7, will I be able to install it on my future upgraded pcs?

I dunno how licencing works really. Thanks

zangetsu19 · 17 Dec 2010 at 21:43

get professional addition if you want XP mode to load your old programs onto the new build, and you only get one pc licence nowadays unless you get a family pack disc set which is the 3 user licences

Hedge · 17 Dec 2010 at 23:07

So with 1 pc licence that means I can install it when I build the new pc, but if I upgrade that in future with new motherboard/cpu/memory etc, it will require yet another licence?

Crowort · 17 Dec 2010 at 23:49

With a retail licence you can install it on as many PCs as you like as long as it is only ever on 1 PC at a time. OEM is tied too 1 pc (normally the motherboard)

SimonC · 18 Dec 2010 at 13:34

So, say for example you had windows 7 installed on a dekstop having been installed with a retail disc, you then bought a laptop with xp/vista on and wanted windows 7 on that, how would you put it on the laptop?

Crowort · 18 Dec 2010 at 14:01

You just uninstall it from the desktop. Then install it on the laptop, it will likely just pass validation, but it might ask you to phone MS. You just talk to a machine on the phone and key in numbers.

If you want wins 7 on both you need 2 licences.

SimonC · 18 Dec 2010 at 14:10

Ok cheers, thought it might be something like that, never heard of uninstalling an os, but guess you'd just reformat the partition and install the new/older os, which is the same thing by looks of it.