@darwin05 yes u can upgrade to windows 7. But first of all u should know if your computer
can run windows 7.
Minimum hardware requirements for Windows 7
Architecture 32-bit
Processor 1 GHz IA-32 processor
Memory (RAM) 1 GB
Graphics Card DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM driver model 1.0
(Not absolutely necessary; only required for Aero)
HDD free space 16 GB of free disk space
Optical drive DVD-ROM drive (Only to install from DVD-ROM media)
Minimum hardware requirements for Windows 7
Architecture 64-bit
Processor 1 GHz x86-64 processor
Memory (RAM) 2 GB
Graphics Card DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM driver model 1.0
(Not absolutely necessary; only required for Aero)
HDD free space 20 GB of free disk space
Optical drive DVD-ROM drive (Only to install from DVD-ROM media)
And here is a step by step on how to upgrade windows xp to win 7
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windo...-windows-7