Acer OS upgrade

bassfisher6522 · Mar 12, 2014

My daughter has an Acer Aspire One AOA-150...it's a little 10" netbook that I got 2nd hand a few years back. It's running XP home and with the impending end of support for that OS, I was thinking of upgrading it to windows 7. After checking the Acer support site, there are no official driver support for windows 7 just XP. So my question is; has anybody upgraded or clean installed windows 7 on one of these devices? Where there any issues?

Masterchiefxx17 · Mar 14, 2014

I've done Windows 7 upgrades for Windows XP machines before. Windows 7 has a pretty good compatibility with XP drivers. Plus you can almost always find a stock driver or a 3rd party driver for the items that don't work.

bassfisher6522 · Mar 14, 2014

My main concern is this little netbook has a atom processer and only 1 GB of RAM....not sure if it can handle windows 7. Where as 8/8.1 are really designed for tablets/netbooks with such hardware. Now we have asus transformer w/touch screen that came with 7 starter and I upgraded it to 8 and it works wonderfully....except for the screen resolution issue. I might forgo windows 7 and go with windows 8 on the Acer netbook.

Wrench97 · Mar 14, 2014

I thought I posted this yesterday, run the Win7 upgrade adviser and see what it says generally speaking From XP SP3 to Win 7 with Areo turned off there is only a little difference in memory usage and almost no performance hit.> Download Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor from Official Microsoft Download Center

bassfisher6522 · Mar 14, 2014

Wrench97 said:
I thought I posted this yesterday, run the Win7 upgrade adviser and see what it says generally speaking From XP SP3 to Win 7 with Areo turned off there is only a little difference in memory usage and almost no performance hit.> Download Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor from Official Microsoft Download Center

That's been done...just outlook express is the only thing that was flagged....everything else says it's fine....but from my experience...just because is says it's good to go does not necessarily mean it will. It's why I asked if anyone upgraded this specific model.

I guess the only true way to find out is just to do it.

Wrench97 · Mar 14, 2014

Outlook express is replaced by Windows Live Mail.

The upgrade adviser is good at making you aware of known issues, by now if there were any it should be aware of them.

Corrine · Mar 14, 2014

You may find this article helpful to read first, although I suspect you have it covered: 8 lessons learned from upgrading a dog-slow XP machine to Windows 8 | ZDNet

bassfisher6522 · Mar 14, 2014

Thanks for all the tips....but I've done all the basic research on what software will and will not work along with the hardware. It all checks out as "good to go" for upgrade. My question was and still is; has anyone or know anyone who has upgraded this device to windows 7 or 8? If so, where there any issues/problems?

niemiro · Mar 16, 2014

I am afraid that I cannot answer this directly as I do not own or know anyone who owns this device. Therefore, it may be advisable to either make a complete disk image prior to upgrade, so that a rollback is painless, or try on a separate partition first, if disk space permits.

Richard

bassfisher6522 · Mar 16, 2014

niemiro said:
I am afraid that I cannot answer this directly as I do not own or know anyone who owns this device. Therefore, it may be advisable to either make a complete disk image prior to upgrade, so that a rollback is painless, or try on a separate partition first, if disk space permits.

Richard

Way ahead of you....all ready on it....Thanks again.

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