Upgrade to windows 10

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Currently i am having windows 7 ultimate in my laptop and i want it to upgrade to windows 10 home basic.

So please suggest me about it, should i upgrade it or not..

I am having a ram of 2gb DDR3 having voltage 1.35 volt with 800mhz frequency.

Hard drive of 500gb.

AMD Radeon A4 3300mx 2.2ghz processor.

Graphic card -AMD RADEON 

GRAPHIC CARD SUPPORTS direct x of version 12.

[WAWood]

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Personally, I would advise against it -- for the following reasons.

First, 2GB of memory is not nearly enough to run Win10.  You need 4GB at minimum, and 8GB would be even better.

Second, it has an old AMD HD-series graphics chip and Microsoft does not carry current Win10 drivers for those.

Third, HP does not have Win10 drivers for your PC, so you would be stuck with the basic function drivers that Microsoft installs with Win10, meaning some of the hardware, especially the video, might not work well.

However, that said, if you are determined to do an upgrade, the do the following BEFORE you do that.

1) Save the existing drivers: follow the instructions in this thread to save your drivers to an external device:  https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/how-to-save-drivers-when-you-re...

2) Create an image backup -- follow the instructions below to save an image backup of your PC to an external drive so that, if the Win10 upgrade does not go well, or if you simply do not like it, you have something to restore FROM:

I personally prefer to use third-party Backup solutions as they tend to be both more flexible and more reliable than any built-in solutions.

Macrium Reflect (MR) provides a FREE version that can be used to image and restore partitions or entire drives.

What I recommend is the following:
1) Download and install Macrium Reflect (MR) from here: http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx
2) Run MR and choose the option: "Create an image of the partition(s) required to backup and restore Windows" to write a full backup to an external drive or USB stick
3) Use the option to create a boot USB stick or CD

My experience is that MR, when using the High Compression option, typically can compress the saved image file to about 50% of the USED space in the OS partition. This means if you have an 80GB OS partition, and 40GB is used, MR only needs about 20GB to store the image file.

I use this all the time and it typically takes less than 15 minutes to do the image backup and about the same time or less to do a restore.

NOW, you have the means to restore a full working system from the external drive or USB stick in only a few minutes.

Now, follow these instructions for downloading and creating Win10 Upgrade media:

1) Use this link to download and create Win10 install media: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

2) insert that into your PC (do NOT boot from it), find the folder containing the media, select the setup.exe file, right-click that and select Run as Administrator.  This will start an in-place Upgrade which could then take a couple of hours to complete.

If you are presented with a window asking for a product key, down near the bottom is a entry you can click to skip that. Do NOT enter a product key, as it will reuse your existing key and when you finish and get back online, Windows will automatically activate.