These are my notes as I installed Windows 7 on an older computer with an ASUS P5B motherboard and a Pentium D chip with 2gb Ram.

Consider it a travelogue or your guide to installing Windows 7.  It’s what I experienced, what you should expect and in follow on articles, solutions to problems that came up.

I booted from the shiny new Windows 7 Beta 1 DVD and tried to install. Due to problems with the current Windows Vista installation, the upgrade option repeatedly failed.   No specific clues or reasons were given. Read the full story

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After installing Windows 7 Beta I was unable to find any Windows 7 approved partners on the microsoft solutions page.  Today they updated that page and advised that Kaspersky and AVG version 8 will both run on Windows 7 Beta.

I downloaded AVG 8 for Windows 7 Beta and installed it. Read the full story

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