To upgrade your PC from Windows XP to Windows 7, you’ll need to select the Custom option during Windows 7 installation. A custom installation doesn’t preserve your programs, files, or settings. It’s sometimes called a “clean” installation for that reason.

A custom installation is more complex, and it can sometimes take a couple of hours to complete. We created this five-step tutorial to help guide you through the entire process each step of the way.
What you need

An external hard disk. You’ll need to move your files off of your PC before you install Windows 7. To make this easier, we recommend a free download called Windows Easy Transfer, which will require an external hard disk. They’re readily available at electronics and office supply stores, and they provide an easy way to add additional storage space to your computer.
The original installation discs or setup files for the programs that you want to use with Windows 7. You’ll need to reinstall your programs by hand after installing Windows 7. When you run Windows Easy Transfer you will get a report that lists the programs that you are currently using with Windows XP.
32-bit or 64-bit: Which version of Windows 7 to install?

Both 32-bit and 64-bit installation discs are included in the Windows 7 package. 64-bit operating systems can handle large amounts of memory—typically 4 gigabytes (GB) of random access memory (RAM) or more—more efficiently than 32-bit operating systems. However, not all computers are 64-bit capable. For more information, see 32-bit and 64-bit Windows: frequently asked questions.

You’ll probably need the 32-bit version, but to make sure right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
If you don’t see “x64 Edition” listed, then you’re running the 32-bit version of Windows XP. Step 1 of this tutorial will show you how to run the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor, which can let you know if your computer is capable of running the 64-bit version of Windows 7.
If “x64 Edition” is listed under System, you’re running the 64-bit version of Windows XP and can run the 64-bit version of Windows 7.

Move over mouse: When you pair Windows 7 with a touchscreen PC, you can browse online newspapers, flick through photo albums, and shuffle files and folders—using nothing but your fingers.

Limited one-finger touch capability has been available in Windows for years. But Windows 7 is the first to fully embrace multitouch technology. Need to zoom in on something? Place two fingers on the screen of a multitouch-compatible PC and spread them apart. To right‑click a file, touch it with one finger and tap the screen with a second.

Windows Touch—available only in the Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate editions of Windows 7—is fun to learn and easy to use. The Start menu and taskbar now sport larger, fingertip-friendly icons. All your favorite Windows 7 programs are also touch-ready. You can even finger-paint in Paint!

To find out which displays are compatible with Windows Touch, go to the Windows 7 Compatibility Center website.

The year that Windows ME released i upgraded my 98SE PC and discovered the painful world if PC instability/incompatibility. I stumbled upon Computing.net and stayed there for a couple of years learning and participating in the forums under the user name ShutMeUpOrDown:). I chose that name because my PC was in a constant state of rebooting and i couldn’t make it stop. My first post was me asking for tips on solving this.

There were quite a few regulars who stuck around for a while KTTD (Kevin the tech dude) Tyme Ryder who was really helpful but i think someone made him angry and he stopped posting. Susie from spywarewarrior.com WAWADAVE and so many others . The names keep coming to me.

I began assembling HowTo’s for simple tasks and decided to start a website and then i got interested in HTML/CSS and then Graphic Design and i even toyed with flash a little but gave up because of the limits of dial up internet. After about a year of tinkering i had http://burzurq.com/forum/index.html built. Then i got busy with life and the site remained unchanged until i did some minor updates in 2008. At that moment i was feeling the pinch of the economy like everyone else so i starting cutting back on expenses and one of them was the cost of keeping burzurq.com online. I decided to try google ads and i began earning about $1 a day. google ads saved burzurq.com! Not exactly sure how many people my WinMe tips have been helping over the last 10 years but they are still there for anyone who needs them .

The old site will stay up and the root directory will now be wordpress. Wordpress makes adding content more convenient so it will easy to get back into the swing of things. Hopefully some of the old gang stops by and says hello