windows office: My computer is about 7 yrs old, has a memory expansion, windows XP with windows office 2007, and works better than any crappy windows vista PC. Can it withstand the change and is it worth the money?|||I would not recommend upgrading to Windows 7 with a 7 year old computer. Mainly due to a few factors: * It requires a 2GB RAM minimum to start up, 4GB+ for more functionality. * All your parts need to be traded out for Vista/7 to function properly. Several parts on a 7 year old computers are not compatbile with either OS version. ** Video card incompatibility ** Sound card incompatibility ** CPU incompatibility probable ** Modem, ethernet card, etc incompatibility more likely Plus 7 uses a good deal of Vista speed and you'll only perform good on Basic even if you up to 2GB or 4GB if at all possible. I would save up and purchase a new computer or have one pre-built to meet Windows 7 minimum or highest value ($1000 for the best entertainment).|||You will not have the video memory for Aero (the ATI 9000 only has 64Mb). You can upgrade to 2Gb ram (which I'm running right now on a 8200). Run windows 7 upgrade advisor. check: http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Windows-7-Home-Premium/product-reviews/B002DHGMK0?pageNumber=2 Report Abuse |||You very likely don't meet the minimum requirements with something that old (though it would still run Windows 7 better than Vista). If it's working fine for most of your purposes like web and word processing, you might prefer to save your money for now. When you go to get a new system at some point in the not-too-distant future, just get Windows 7 pre-installed. Even a "low end" system these days would still have better specs than a 7-year-old thing, and your money would be best spent that way.|||since its seven years old i doubt it. windows 7 does have less overhead than vista but only barely. it recommends a minimum of a 1Ghz processor, 1 Gig ram and a directX 9 video card. I strongly recommend twice the memory and twice the processor with a minimum of a 256 MB Vcard. ive read a lot of reviews while beta testing win 7 myself and its just a slow system with the Microsoft minimums.|||Yes it can, although the video ram kind of makes me wonder how well will it handle the aero effects i believe it should work fine, the windows 7 installation requires 512mb of ram or it will simply throw you out an error about W7 minimal requirements and will exit setup right at the beginning of installation.|||Check whether your computer meet the requirements: http://www.gocomputertraining.com/window鈥?/a> You cannot direct upgrade from Win XP to 7. Perform clean installation if you wish. More details steps are on the site.