Im still using XP on my desktop and see no use in uprgrading, my laptop runs on vista tho.

Never change a running system

Donnie

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Just installed Windows 7 RC on my 8 year old Dell Dimension 8100 P4 1.6 GHz that has been unused for about 3 years. Works like a beauty and the installation was very smooth. I had to upgrade the memory though, it only had 256 MB (now 768 MB). Only problem so far is it can't find any drivers for the Creative SB Live card but everything else works perfectly and not at all slow on this old computer! 

I had the same problem with my SB Live card on my desktop here's what I did:

Download the WinXP drivers from Creative and run the install, it will probably not find your sound card, but it will write the driver files to, I think the Windows/Temp folder. Open the Device Manager in the Control Panel and Right-Click on  the sound card device that has a '?" next to it and choose update driver. Choose Browse my computer for the driver and go to he folder where the drivers are and choose the file that ends in '.inf'. This will install the drivers.

Thanks, that did the trick! 

I had to extract the files manually from the installer package though since I have no idea where they went, they weren't in the temp folder. But I only had to select the folder and then it found the files it needed all by itself.

Common sense finally made it through!