Reply 20 of 29, by ncmark
UPDATE.... well I played with it a bit more... let it do all the updates. I tried the most recent graphics driver version, but no improvement... I think the graphics card is just too old. I would call this a "successful failure"... in a way it did give me a more updated system than what I had with Linux, but was not really what I wanted. Still have not activated... not sure I am going to keep it (might save this copy of XP for a better computer.)
Does anyone know..... is there a better AGP card I could use, or is AGP going to be the limiting factor. Currently, the video card is a Radeon 9600SE.
As far as "bloatware" goes ... I don't necessarily mind upgrading..... but tired of having it forced on me just so they can make more money. What can can windows 7 really do that XP cannot... that is worthy of the greatly increased hardware requirements????? What was the point in changing the Word format (other than so you will have you get the new version to open the file someone just sent you, which of course requires a newer OS, which of course cannot run on your current computer?)