1.3. Migration to Windows 7

Migration isn’t just for the birds. It’s the process you go through to make all of your day-to-day tasks—the ones you’re accustomed to doing on Windows Vista or XP—function on a new Windows 7 installation.

If you haven’t yet installed Windows 7, one way to determine what will work and what won’t is to use the free Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor (UA) . UA does nothing more than construct a laundry list of warnings, each pointing out a potential problem with products it knows Windows 7 doesn’t like. In many cases, you can remedy such issues by installing free updates from the respective manufacturers. But don’t expect anything more; UA is useless for products not on its compatibility list.