Using Windows 7 Professional or Ultimate

[David McFarlane]

Dana,

First, I would not expect anyone from Dell to know anything about 
what is needed to run E-Prime, so you are indeed wise to question the 
advice of the Dell rep.

Second, if you search the Google Group or the PST Forum for "Windows 
7" you will find earlier reports addressing your very 
question.  FWIW, PST has still not revised its statement of 16 Nov 
2009, "PST does not recommend using Windows 7 at this time for data 
collection."  (They also have not come through with a "more formal 
statement" with timing test results scheduled for Q1 2010).

But finally, I hope that you do us all a favor and pioneer this for 
us -- go ahead and get Windows 7, try running E-Prime under XP mode, 
and report back with the results.  Pay particular attention to delays 
and crashes when playing sound 
(http://support.pstnet.com/forum/Topic1361-12-1.aspx ), crashes when 
playing movies (http://support.pstnet.com/forum/Topic1850-4-1.aspx ), 
and anomalies in measured response times 
(http://support.pstnet.com/forum/Topic2994-12-1.aspx ).  And if you 
then find that EP does not run well under Windows 7, you can always 
reformat and revert to XP, like many of us have done.

Thanks,
-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


At 8/6/2010 06:23 AM Friday, you wrote:
>I purchased a new laptop which uses Windows 7 as an Operating System.
>I called Dell and they said that I should be able to use eprime, if I
>upgrade to Windows 7, either Professional or Ultimate editions.  The
>reason I would have to upgrade is that these two versions have an
>option to function in "XP Mode," in which case eprime should work on
>my new laptop.
>
>Has anyone recently experienced this conversion?  And if so, was it
>successful?
>
>Thanks!
>Dana

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