On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:03:09 -0700, "P J" <pj@pjama.invalid> wrote:

>"Jed" <zyzygy@plenipôtentiary.com.invalid> wrote:
>> I am running the Windows 7 release candidate (build 7100) on my 8
>> month old HP DV5 1000us notebook (for reasons I won't go into) and
>> have had no problems. One driver, for the HP Officejet 4200 series
>> printer, was not available in the build but the OS automatically
>> searched online for the driver when I tried to add the printer, and
>> found and installed it in about 2 minutes.
>
> That's a relief. My notebook is of the same series as yours, I
>think: HP Pavillion tx1410us. Did you install W7 on top of Vista, or did
>you do a clean install?

Since it is the release candidate, fresh install is the only option.

When you decide to move to Windows 7, I would recommend getting
Acronis Backup (or equivalent), back up your important data and
applications, do a fresh install of W7, then restore your data and
applications.