Robert Reed; desktop hardware/
Dr.Wofford/ set 2013
Project 2; Installing Windows 7 1. Check and see if your hardware can support the OS. A lot of hardware makers have chosen to not to produce Windows 7. The easiest way to do this is to download, install, and run the Windows 7 upgrade adviser on your machine before you upgrade to Windows 7. If you are not sure that your devises will work under Windows 7, think about setting up a duel boot. A duel boot lets you to install the new OS without messing with the older ones. So you can boot to either OS. After the install, you can test your applications and your hardware.
2. Check for performance warning. Makers are shifting from strategic management to reformate-based management of their information systems. Companies carefully think both strategic advantage and their costs. They use productivity, return on their investment ROI, net present value, and other measures of performance to evaluate the contributions their information systems make to their business.
3. Check the reliability monitor. Performance monitor. Performance monitor can be accessed from your actions center, or a command and prompt. Enter redmon.exe. Use it to view information about how hardware cups, memory, hare drive, and networks are used by processed and services. It can help you identify a performance monitor in one window and call it reliability and performance monitor.
4. Disable the indexer for windows search. Windows 7 does not support indexer for windows.
5. Disable aero interface. First, you want to right-click on the desktop and choose personalize from the menu, then you can simply scull the themes down until you see the basic themes.
6. Disable the vista sidebar. To disable the sidebar, right click on the or sidebar icons, then click on the icon, and pick exit to close the sidebar, you’re sidebar should disappear.
7. Plug up