I have been doing some research into upgrading my HP TouchSmart all in one PC from Vista 64 to Windows 8. It is my understanding that Microsoft has not tested Windows 8 on PC’s this old and ask that you upgrade at your own risk. I’ve seen post on the web saying that it works but that you may need to uninstall the Nvidia graphics drivers that MS provides and then download different ones from the Nvidia site. I don’t want to spend my entire Christmas break doing this and was wondering if anyone had any helpful hints on other possible pitfalls; or even any opinions on whether this is even worth doing on a 4 year old PC.
I tested Win8 on a similar looking Acer machine not long ago. The Win7 touchscreen drivers worked, but without edge detection, so you had to use a mouse to bring up the charms bar, etc.
In my case, I just wanted something to road test Win8 (which I’m not big on just yet), so it didn’t matter much. IMHO that would be a bigger factor for day-to-day stuff.
Heh. I have an HP IQ526 and I was sure I was the only person who bought that system. Until last Wednesday, when visiting a relative, who has the same PC. And now, you, kinda sorta almost the same.
I really don’t poke at the screen as much as I thought I would, so it was a brief novelty. And in the summer, if a bug flies in and walks on the monitor, it’s odd watching them open and close windows and such.
Given that
1: You will have almost zero increase in your functional OS capabilities
2: You risk losing some hardware compatibility on a machine that is very tightly integrated
3: Your older hardware is not optimal horsepower wise to run the OS efficiently
Why are you even considering this? If the machine offers a solid upgrade path to Win 7 and has drivers for it do that and stick there. Going to Win 8 on this machine seems kind of pointless as Win 8 does not offer all that much over Win 7.