Win 7 - Upgrading Inspiron E1505

I'm getting ready to upgrade my Inspiron E1505 to Win 7 from Vista. I
ran the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor and had the following programs
listed with concerns:

- ATI Catalyst Install Manager
- Catalyst Control Centre

The above two were recommended to uninstall and reinstall after
upgrade. I don't recall ever using these programs - what are they and
how important are they?

- Broadcom Management Programs

Advisor stated that "you may experience issues running this program" -
not sure what this program is or how important it is to the laptop
performance.

Any thoughts on the above would be appreciated.

Thanks
Charlie

wrote:
I'm getting ready to upgrade my Inspiron E1505 to Win 7 from Vista. I
ran the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor and had the following programs
listed with concerns:

- ATI Catalyst Install Manager
- Catalyst Control Centre

The above two were recommended to uninstall and reinstall after
upgrade. I don't recall ever using these programs - what are they and
how important are they?

- Broadcom Management Programs

Advisor stated that "you may experience issues running this program" -
not sure what this program is or how important it is to the laptop
performance.

Any thoughts on the above would be appreciated.

Thanks
Charlie

That message assumes you're doing an in place upgrade. I highly
recommend that you ignore that and do a clean install. Takes longer up
front but avoids a world of head aches later on down the road.

Bob

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...
I'm getting ready to upgrade my Inspiron E1505 to Win 7 from Vista. I
ran the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor and had the following programs
listed with concerns:

- ATI Catalyst Install Manager
- Catalyst Control Centre

The above two were recommended to uninstall and reinstall after
upgrade. I don't recall ever using these programs - what are they and
how important are they?

- Broadcom Management Programs

Advisor stated that "you may experience issues running this program" -
not sure what this program is or how important it is to the laptop
performance.

Any thoughts on the above would be appreciated.

Thanks
Charlie

The first 2 both refer to your ATI video card. Uninstall these, then after
your upgrade got to ATI/AMD website and d/l the latest drivers for your
card.

The second may refer to your wireless card/program.

--


"Don't pick a fight with an old man.
If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you."

On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:02:38 -0400, Bob Levine wrote:

wrote:
I'm getting ready to upgrade my Inspiron E1505 to Win 7 from Vista. I
ran the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor and had the following programs
listed with concerns:

- ATI Catalyst Install Manager
- Catalyst Control Centre

The above two were recommended to uninstall and reinstall after
upgrade. I don't recall ever using these programs - what are they and
how important are they?

- Broadcom Management Programs

Advisor stated that "you may experience issues running this program" -
not sure what this program is or how important it is to the laptop
performance.

Any thoughts on the above would be appreciated.

Thanks
Charlie

That message assumes you're doing an in place upgrade. I highly
recommend that you ignore that and do a clean install. Takes longer up
front but avoids a world of head aches later on down the road.

Bob

By doing a clean install, you mean to "format" the C drive and then
install or is there another approach that does not lose all the
installed programs and data?

Thanks
Charlie

On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:13:52 -0400, "MJMIII" wrote:


wrote in message
.. .
I'm getting ready to upgrade my Inspiron E1505 to Win 7 from Vista. I
ran the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor and had the following programs
listed with concerns:

- ATI Catalyst Install Manager
- Catalyst Control Centre

The above two were recommended to uninstall and reinstall after
upgrade. I don't recall ever using these programs - what are they and
how important are they?

- Broadcom Management Programs

Advisor stated that "you may experience issues running this program" -
not sure what this program is or how important it is to the laptop
performance.

Any thoughts on the above would be appreciated.

Thanks
Charlie

The first 2 both refer to your ATI video card. Uninstall these, then after
your upgrade got to ATI/AMD website and d/l the latest drivers for your
card.

The second may refer to your wireless card/program.

Thanks

wrote:

By doing a clean install, you mean to "format" the C drive and then
install or is there another approach that does not lose all the
installed programs and data?

Thanks
Charlie

Back up the data and reinstall all your programs. Start the Windows
setup and choose custom.

Bob

wrote:
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:13:52 -0400, "MJMIII" wrote:

wrote in message
...
I'm getting ready to upgrade my Inspiron E1505 to Win 7 from Vista. I
ran the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor and had the following programs
listed with concerns:

- ATI Catalyst Install Manager
- Catalyst Control Centre

The above two were recommended to uninstall and reinstall after
upgrade. I don't recall ever using these programs - what are they and
how important are they?

- Broadcom Management Programs

Advisor stated that "you may experience issues running this program" -
not sure what this program is or how important it is to the laptop
performance.

Any thoughts on the above would be appreciated.

Thanks
Charlie
The first 2 both refer to your ATI video card. Uninstall these, then after
your upgrade got to ATI/AMD website and d/l the latest drivers for your
card.

The second may refer to your wireless card/program.

Thanks

As relatively inexpensive as drives are these days I would seriously
consider starting with a new larger drive to install Win 7 on and keep
the old for a fall back or an external after everything is up and
running the way you want it to be.

Charles

Backup your data and do a clean install including formatting the hard drive.
Windows will have the drivers you need on this system,

wrote in message
...
I'm getting ready to upgrade my Inspiron E1505 to Win 7 from Vista. I
ran the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor and had the following programs
listed with concerns:

- ATI Catalyst Install Manager
- Catalyst Control Centre

The above two were recommended to uninstall and reinstall after
upgrade. I don't recall ever using these programs - what are they and
how important are they?

- Broadcom Management Programs

Advisor stated that "you may experience issues running this program" -
not sure what this program is or how important it is to the laptop
performance.

Any thoughts on the above would be appreciated.

Thanks
Charlie

Charles wrote in :

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On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:13:52 -0400, "MJMIII"
wrote:

wrote in message
...
I'm getting ready to upgrade my Inspiron E1505 to Win 7 from Vista.
I ran the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor and had the following programs
listed with concerns:

- ATI Catalyst Install Manager
- Catalyst Control Centre

The above two were recommended to uninstall and reinstall after
upgrade. I don't recall ever using these programs - what are they
and how important are they?

- Broadcom Management Programs

Advisor stated that "you may experience issues running this
program" - not sure what this program is or how important it is to
the laptop performance.

Any thoughts on the above would be appreciated.

Thanks
Charlie
The first 2 both refer to your ATI video card. Uninstall these,
then after your upgrade got to ATI/AMD website and d/l the latest
drivers for your card.

The second may refer to your wireless card/program.

Thanks

As relatively inexpensive as drives are these days I would seriously
consider starting with a new larger drive to install Win 7 on and keep
the old for a fall back or an external after everything is up and
running the way you want it to be.

Charles


(Apologies if I'm hijacking this thread...)

That's exactly what I plan to do. Install on new drives (I have two Dell
pcs with VistaHomePremium), but I'm not sure yet if I can do this, even
doing a custom install with an upgrade version of Win7. I haven't found
anything definitive as to whether or not I can do a clean install, on a
new drive, with the upgrade version of Win7.

In worst case, I may have to install Vista on new drive, with my Dell OEM
disk, and upgrade that.

Boris wrote in
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Charles wrote in
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wrote:
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:13:52 -0400, "MJMIII"
wrote:

wrote in message
...
I'm getting ready to upgrade my Inspiron E1505 to Win 7 from
Vista.
I ran the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor and had the following
programs
listed with concerns:

- ATI Catalyst Install Manager
- Catalyst Control Centre

The above two were recommended to uninstall and reinstall after
upgrade. I don't recall ever using these programs - what are they
and how important are they?

- Broadcom Management Programs

Advisor stated that "you may experience issues running this
program" - not sure what this program is or how important it is to
the laptop performance.

Any thoughts on the above would be appreciated.

Thanks
Charlie
The first 2 both refer to your ATI video card. Uninstall these,
then after your upgrade got to ATI/AMD website and d/l the latest
drivers for your card.

The second may refer to your wireless card/program.

Thanks

As relatively inexpensive as drives are these days I would seriously
consider starting with a new larger drive to install Win 7 on and
keep the old for a fall back or an external after everything is up
and running the way you want it to be.

Charles


(Apologies if I'm hijacking this thread...)

That's exactly what I plan to do. Install on new drives (I have two
Dell pcs with VistaHomePremium), but I'm not sure yet if I can do
this, even doing a custom install with an upgrade version of Win7. I
haven't found anything definitive as to whether or not I can do a
clean install, on a new drive, with the upgrade version of Win7.

In worst case, I may have to install Vista on new drive, with my Dell
OEM disk, and upgrade that.




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upgrade-media/