I am planning to go ahead and purchase Windows 7. The two editions I am considering is Home Premium or Professional.

Professional has the Backup Utility I have been using in XP Pro for quite a few years. I have five DVD's full of backups that I can go back if I need. Professional also has an XP compatibility mode. I assume this is for picky software?

I have Acronis True Image that I purchased, but rarely used. This would give future backup ability to Home Premium, but my old backup sets would be useless. At this point, I could probably just scrap them. I've not looked at any of them in over a year.

I downloaded and ran the Compatibility Adviser from Microsoft. Only one piece of hardware I cannot use: An older ATI TV Wonder Pro. It's like eight years old, at least. I can replace that. Some of my older software it didn't like: Acrobat 6, PowerDVD 5, and a few other lesser products.

My video is onboard. nVidia GeForce 7050. I also have an nVidia GeForce 8400 GS adapter that I do not currently have installed. The adapter has 512 MB of video RAM. The onboard video borrows from the system RAM, I would guess. I don't know how much RAM it uses.

So, I am looking for comments and suggestions...