Win 7 works on 7yr old laptop

This is my 7 year old XP Laptop
I used build 6956 Windows 7 x86

Compaq Presario 700
900-MHz AMD Mobile Duron CPU, 496MB of RAM, 64KB L2 cache, Windows XP Home, 14.1-inch active-matrix screen, integrated Via ProSavage KN133 graphics chip with 16MB of SDRAM, 20GB hard drive, 8X DVD-ROM drive, built-in V.90 modem and network adapter, touchpad pointing device, 7.6 pounds

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Science & Technology

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• Windows 7
• 6956
• XP
• Compaq
• Presario 700
• PC

[slasher326]

hey nice vid and i guess u just did the impossible lol btw i would like to know how did u do this... thx and nice video

[ibuckyi]

@slasher326 Use the windows 7 bootable cd, and run it off your laptop. Then follow the instructions. It will install.

[rolantloss]

Hi, I am glad to see you are using tiny7.

[ibuckyi]

@rolantloss What's Tiny7?

[Come4hells1]

windows7 is much better than windows xp and vista

[gamezonic]

can you get windows 7 on windows 98 (i upgraded it ALOT)

[CutThroat192]

@HorrorCode On the Live CD many of the codecs are already there, but I had to manually install codecs for a lot of things, like LAME for MP3s and other codecs after the actual install. MP3 files wouldn't play otherwise.

[HorrorCode]

@Stldetrl They can be very deceptive and misleading. As far as overheating goes, you might try some thermal compound and if you can get a hold of it skip the grease and go for thermal tape, clean all the other stuff off first and make sure its properly seated. Also check your fan, is it working, is anything dusty, etc? A bios update could fix this too, but you could try something simpler like resetting the bios to the default settings, first. Just open up the bios setup page and try.

[HorrorCode]

@CutThroat192 I was calling the other guy a fanboy. I totally understand not being able to afford it, but you shouldn't have had to install any codecs. You should check out something like Mint which is why I pointed it out, and ignore trolls like that guy, he was only looking for another angle to flame you from.

[CutThroat192]

@HorrorCode I'm not a fanboy. Honestly, the only reason I started using Ubuntu is because I couldn't afford Win7 at the time.

[Stldetrl]

@HorrorCode Only 512mb? Wow! I was not aware of that. Microsoft says 1gig, but then, Microsoft is not a good source for information. I would test that, but now I have a new problem.. the laptop with 768 megs keeps powering down after about 1 minute even when plugged in. I opened it up, and the AMD cpu seemed to be extremely hot - which would cause that problem. But I have no idea why the cpu is getting so hot all of a sudden. Thanks for the info about the 512mb!

[HorrorCode]

@CutThroat192 Codecs to play mp3s on linux? I realize your comment is months old, but as far back as Linux Mint 9(ubuntu based) all codes were already installed by default, and that was like 3 years ago. Fan boys need to stop trolling tbh.

[HorrorCode]

@Stldetrl It only requires 512mb.