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‎08-07-2017 07:53 AM

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Product: HP G72-227WM
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 (64-bit)

I am wondering if it it possible to upgrade a HP G72-227WM to Windows 10?  Right now, it has Windows 7 and that is nearing it end of life.

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‎08-07-2017 08:34 AM

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Your laptop is "senior"...it has the Intel 4500HD video which does not have a Windows 10 driver. 

 

Windows 7 will be supported until 2020. You will be much happier keeping Windows 7. Make sure you do a system backup with a system image and make a recovery disk from the HP Backup and Restore as you cannot easily find installation media any more for Windows 7. 

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‎08-07-2017 08:34 AM

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Your laptop is "senior"...it has the Intel 4500HD video which does not have a Windows 10 driver. 

 

Windows 7 will be supported until 2020. You will be much happier keeping Windows 7. Make sure you do a system backup with a system image and make a recovery disk from the HP Backup and Restore as you cannot easily find installation media any more for Windows 7. 

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‎12-09-2019 06:38 AM

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The graphics drivers that get installed during Windows 10 upgrade do not support, for example, switchable graphics feature (on older laptops like G72) . HDMI no longer works. As recommended on forums - to fix HDMI you can install AMD_UnifL/Catalyst_16.2.1_UnifL_v1.0.exe drivers like I did.

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