Adding Picture To Profile

[Barry]

Just had a look at the movie (Windows 7 preview) and found it very interesting. I had considered upgrading from XP to W7 and appreciate the suggestions by Andreas and John, My question is :- If I go for the upgrade will it involve re-formatting the hard drive and lose everything (my files and other programmes etc) or would W7 just replace the operating system? leaving everything intact?.

I think John covered this subject previously but I can't remember the answer, got a feeling that all required files should be transferred to other medium i.e. memory stick,cd, or other.

Question 2. I was trying to post a photo on my profile (Just a mug shot as attachment) that helps on identifying who's asking the questions but it looked a bit complicated as it seems to involve a URL. How would one go about this?

Attachments:

[Andreas Prescher]

Hi Barry,

To get your pictura into your profile use a hosting service like imageshack.us/
it is easy to use and gives you an URL to your picture that you then can cut and paste into the URL Line in your profile.
I took the liberty to add your picture into your library so everybody knows who wrote your question

about your question to upgrading to windows 7
If you are upgrading from Windows XP then you will have to save all your important data to a stick or a cd, depending on the total data you want to save , install windows 7 and all your programs and copy back your data

The windows 7 Installation will create a Directory called windows.old
THere you will find your old data
If your Harddrive does not have a minimum of 20 better 50 GB free capacity then save your data and reformat


Greetings from Polop
Andreas

[Barry]

Hello Andreas,

Thanks for info and adding my picture to the profile.

I have another problem which I'll post on the board, this seems a fantastic way to ask questions, the Saturday sessions are good but my writing isn't, this way I can refer to the notes and don't have to rely on my hearing, hand and eye co-ordination to get the right information on paper.