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    <title>topic CAN I USE WINDOWS 7 WITH LAPTOP VGN FE-31M in PCs &amp; Accessories</title>
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    <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;I'm sure your FE-Series can run Windows 7 without too many problems.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Sony do not support Windows 7 on your model but did support Vista and most Vista drivers and Utilities will work with Windows 7.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;You can download all the Vista drivers and utilities from here: -&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://support.vaio.sony.eu/computing/vaio/downloads/updates/index.aspx?l=en_GB&amp;amp;m=VGN-FE31H&amp;amp;os=7"&gt;http://support.vaio.sony.eu/computing/vaio/downloads/updates/index.aspx?l=en_GB&amp;amp;m=VGN-FE31H&amp;amp;os=7&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;You will probably have some driver problems to solve - graphics drivers can be a problem - but I'm sure they can be fixed.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;I presume you have XP installed at the moment?&amp;nbsp; Installing Windows 7 will mean a clean installation and you will lose all preinstalled Sony programs which cannot be replaced.&amp;nbsp; You will also lose all data, programs, settings and data.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;The choice is yours but as your Vaio was made to run XP, I would personally stick with it unless you have a particular reason to upgrade.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.sony.lt/html/@13A2E6A3774A8B47B4EC6F04089539E1/images/smilies/063.png" alt=":thinking:" title=":thinking:" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:52:24 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Blencogo</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2011-03-10T18:52:24Z</dc:date>
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      <link>https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/can-i-use-windows-7-with-laptop-vgn-fe-31m/m-p/205275#M44406</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;CAN I USE WINDOWS 7 WITH LAPTOP VGN FE-31M ? &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:43:13 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>dimkalantzis</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2011-03-10T16:43:13Z</dc:date>
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      <title>CAN I USE WINDOWS 7 WITH LAPTOP VGN FE-31M</title>
      <link>https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/can-i-use-windows-7-with-laptop-vgn-fe-31m/m-p/205276#M44407</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;I'm sure your FE-Series can run Windows 7 without too many problems.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Sony do not support Windows 7 on your model but did support Vista and most Vista drivers and Utilities will work with Windows 7.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;You can download all the Vista drivers and utilities from here: -&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://support.vaio.sony.eu/computing/vaio/downloads/updates/index.aspx?l=en_GB&amp;amp;m=VGN-FE31H&amp;amp;os=7"&gt;http://support.vaio.sony.eu/computing/vaio/downloads/updates/index.aspx?l=en_GB&amp;amp;m=VGN-FE31H&amp;amp;os=7&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;You will probably have some driver problems to solve - graphics drivers can be a problem - but I'm sure they can be fixed.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;I presume you have XP installed at the moment?&amp;nbsp; Installing Windows 7 will mean a clean installation and you will lose all preinstalled Sony programs which cannot be replaced.&amp;nbsp; You will also lose all data, programs, settings and data.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;The choice is yours but as your Vaio was made to run XP, I would personally stick with it unless you have a particular reason to upgrade.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.sony.lt/html/@13A2E6A3774A8B47B4EC6F04089539E1/images/smilies/063.png" alt=":thinking:" title=":thinking:" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:52:24 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Blencogo</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2011-03-10T18:52:24Z</dc:date>
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