Win7 Home Premium --> Win7 Professional

I just purchased a laptop with Win7 Home Premium installed, but it did
not come with the Win7 disks. I am planning to buy Win7 separately.

1. If I purchase Win7 Pro, which includes XP compatibility, will I be
able to run some text-based DOS apps I have that do, in fact, run
under Win XP?

2. If I run the Win7 Pro install disk (the full Win7 pro, not the
upgrade), will it upgrade my laptop to Win7 Pro while still keeping my
entire present disconfiguration intact?

Thanks in advance....

(1) Yes
(2) No

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"SCO" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I just purchased a laptop with Win7 Home Premium installed, but it did
> not come with the Win7 disks. I am planning to buy Win7 separately.
>
> 1. If I purchase Win7 Pro, which includes XP compatibility, will I be
> able to run some text-based DOS apps I have that do, in fact, run
> under Win XP?
>
> 2. If I run the Win7 Pro install disk (the full Win7 pro, not the
> upgrade), will it upgrade my laptop to Win7 Pro while still keeping my
> entire present disconfiguration intact?
>
> Thanks in advance....
>

"SCO" <> wrote in message
news:...
> I just purchased a laptop with Win7 Home Premium installed, but it did
> not come with the Win7 disks. I am planning to buy Win7 separately.

It's worth to check your guarantee if it allows you to do it without
losing it. All laptops these day come without an OS CD or DVD.
However you can burn it yourself following the manual. Your
laptop has a part of your hard drive dedicated for OS which can
be restored at any time you need it.

>
> 1. If I purchase Win7 Pro, which includes XP compatibility, will I be
> able to run some text-based DOS apps I have that do, in fact, run
> under Win XP?
>
> 2. If I run the Win7 Pro install disk (the full Win7 pro, not the
> upgrade), will it upgrade my laptop to Win7 Pro while still keeping my
> entire present disconfiguration intact?
>
> Thanks in advance....
>
>

"MacCorkindale" <> wrote in message
news:2U77o.32869$VW2.29387@hurricane...
>
> "SCO" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> I just purchased a laptop with Win7 Home Premium installed, but it did
>> not come with the Win7 disks. I am planning to buy Win7 separately.
>
> It's worth to check your guarantee if it allows you to do it without
> losing it. All laptops these day come without an OS CD or DVD.

Not correct, The Medion branded (MSI) small laptop comes with a "restore
CD" with Win7 Starter edition, plus another CD with applications and
drivers.


> However you can burn it yourself following the manual. Your
> laptop has a part of your hard drive dedicated for OS which can
> be restored at any time you need it.
>
>>
>> 1. If I purchase Win7 Pro, which includes XP compatibility, will I be
>> able to run some text-based DOS apps I have that do, in fact, run
>> under Win XP?
>>
>> 2. If I run the Win7 Pro install disk (the full Win7 pro, not the
>> upgrade), will it upgrade my laptop to Win7 Pro while still keeping my
>> entire present disconfiguration intact?
>>
>> Thanks in advance....
>>
>>
>
>
>

On Sat, 7 Aug 2010 08:26:52 +0100, "MacCorkindale"
<> wrote:
>However you can burn it yourself following the manual. Your
>laptop has a part of your hard drive dedicated for OS which can
>be restored at any time you need it.

OP: As far as I can tell, the "Restore" feature only restores the
laptop to the original configuration. This has two problems:

1. If the OS somehow becomes damaged but the computer is still partly
operational, I want to be able to repair the OS without having to
restore to the original start up state, and lose all my installed
applications, data, etc.

2. Even if the hard drive completely crashed, I'd rather do a fresh
install of the Win7 OS, as opposed to restoring the original
configuration, because the original config includes loads of crapware
that I frankly wish was not on the computer at all.

So, better to have an original Win7 disk Home Premium. I see I can
get it for roughly $120 on EBay, slightly strange as it costs $200 at
the local stores. Based on other responses, it's not clear that it's
worth getting Win7 Pro, since apparently I cannot use that to upgrade
Win7 HP.

>
>"SCO" <> wrote in message
>news:...
>> I just purchased a laptop with Win7 Home Premium installed, but it did
>> not come with the Win7 disks. I am planning to buy Win7 separately.
>
>It's worth to check your guarantee if it allows you to do it without
>losing it. All laptops these day come without an OS CD or DVD.
>However you can burn it yourself following the manual. Your
>laptop has a part of your hard drive dedicated for OS which can
>be restored at any time you need it.
>
>>
>> 1. If I purchase Win7 Pro, which includes XP compatibility, will I be
>> able to run some text-based DOS apps I have that do, in fact, run
>> under Win XP?
>>
>> 2. If I run the Win7 Pro install disk (the full Win7 pro, not the
>> upgrade), will it upgrade my laptop to Win7 Pro while still keeping my
>> entire present disconfiguration intact?
>>
>> Thanks in advance....
>>
>>
>
>

On 08/07/2010 03:30 AM, SCO wrote:
> I just purchased a laptop with Win7 Home Premium installed, but it did
> not come with the Win7 disks. I am planning to buy Win7 separately.
>
> 1. If I purchase Win7 Pro, which includes XP compatibility, will I be
> able to run some text-based DOS apps I have that do, in fact, run
> under Win XP?
If you just want to run some old DOS applications, then you could try
running DOSBox and just use any of above licenses.

For quite some apps this is a viable approach.
You could even pretest your applications running DOSBox on another OS.


> 2. If I run the Win7 Pro install disk (the full Win7 pro, not the
> upgrade), will it upgrade my laptop to Win7 Pro while still keeping my
> entire present disconfiguration intact?
>
> Thanks in advance....
>

On 8/7/2010 2:26 AM, MacCorkindale wrote:
>
> "SCO" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> I just purchased a laptop with Win7 Home Premium installed, but it did
>> not come with the Win7 disks. I am planning to buy Win7 separately.
>
> It's worth to check your guarantee if it allows you to do it without
> losing it. All laptops these day come without an OS CD or DVD.

Not correct, my new Dell Studio included the operating system disc.

SCO <> wrote:

> I just purchased a laptop with Win7 Home Premium installed, but it
> did not come with the Win7 disks. I am planning to buy Win7
> separately.
>
> 1. If I purchase Win7 Pro, which includes XP compatibility, will
> I be able to run some text-based DOS apps I have that do, in fact,
> run under Win XP?

Probably, it's not 100%.
>
> 2. If I run the Win7 Pro install disk (the full Win7 pro, not the
> upgrade), will it upgrade my laptop to Win7 Pro while still
> keeping my entire present disconfiguration intact?

Yup, I did an "anytime upgrade" on my desktop from OEM Win7 Home
Premium to Win7 Ultimate and when it finished I couldn't even tell w/o
checking, my first thought was the upgrade had failed because
everything was as it was prior to the upgrade but it did upgrade and I
was able to install the XP mode, etc.

If you can do the "Anytime Upgrade" you should keep all your settings,
etc.


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< "SCO" <> wrote in message
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< 1. If I purchase Win7 Pro, which includes XP compatibility, will I be
< able to run some text-based DOS apps I have that do, in fact, run
< under Win XP?

It is not easily predictable what will work and what will not: some ancient
things written for Win 3.1 work fine, and some written for Win XP won't.
You have a slightly better chance of things working with the 32 bit version
I reckon.

Also, bear in mind that even things that won't work might well have web
pages or fan sites that show you how to get them going.
For example:

http://chrisrimple.com/games/16-bit%20Compatibility.txt

That is only one example out of tons. Therefore don't give up when at first
you get the odd error message.

So you might not need dosbox (which is a bit of a pain and really only OK if
you're desperate. I think the same is true regarding XP mode).

However, if you really do mean text based DOS programs, then I don't see why
they shouldn't run perfectly, but of course from the command line. You will
probably need your old DOS skills, but what the heck, that is how things
used to be.

"MacCorkindale" <> écrivait news:2U77o.32869$VW2.29387
@hurricane:

<snip>
>
> It's worth to check your guarantee if it allows you to do it without
> losing it. All laptops these day come without an OS CD or DVD.
> However you can burn it yourself following the manual. Your
> laptop has a part of your hard drive dedicated for OS which can
> be restored at any time you need it.
>
<snip>

My Asus EeePc came with restoration DVDs even if it doesn't have a DVD
reader.