Microsoft forbids it and for a few machines, the standard practice will be to gather all your programs CDs (no floppys please) a few USB Memory sticks to copy your data files, music, pictures, favorites, desktop, and any other things you want to hang onto. For others that have worked for years on Windows XP with lots of applications then probably Windows 7 is the best way to go but unfortunately, you can’t do a simple upgrade. If you buy a computer off the shelf, I am sorry but you are stuck with Windows 8 and for some novice users that actually is not a bad way to go.
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Once you determine you need a new computer, then comes the other problem do I get Windows 8 which works just like the Windows Smartphone (that nearly no one I know has) or can I maybe just upgrade to Windows 7 which still works like Windows use to. Do they actually use it? Actually, no, they don’t they just stick to their smart phones and have moved way beyond what we simple folk like to do.
What idiot is designing this stuff is a comment I have heard many times. And I know, you get used to a piece of software and how it works and see no good reason to change especially after seeing what Microsoft has done with Office over the years. Reinstall everything from scratch on a computer that may not like what you are trying to do. Start from scratch again and for those of you who have had computers die on you mid life, you know what that is like. So, how do you move forward? The easy solution is just throw the old computer away and buy a new machine. Well, in this case, I am talking to the Windows XP users out there who hoped beyond hope, that they can just keep on going as they were. I know you have tried to and for some of you, you can ignore the warnings but sooner or later, it will catch up with you and then what will you do.
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