Audio conversion project stopped by Win7 upgrade

By Tracey Capen

Microsoft has done a reasonably good job of making the Windows XP-to-Win7 upgrade process as painless as possible.

But as with most operating system changes, it’s the legacy drivers for audio and video that cause the most problems.

Lounge member Judy Torp was attempting the migration from vinyl audio to CD but discovered that a recent upgrade to Windows 7 had knocked out her sound card. Her request for help on the Lounge resulted in a thread that moved from finding the proper audio drivers to whether her PC’s motherboard was even Win7-compatible. More»

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The Lounge Life column is a digest of the best of the WS Lounge discussion board. Tracey Capen is technical editor of WindowsSecrets.com.

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Tracey Capen

About Tracey Capen

Editor in chief Tracey Capen was the executive editor of reviews at PC World magazine for 10 years, from 1995 to 2005. He was InfoWorld's managing editor of reviews from 1993 to 1995 and worked in the magazine's test center and as networking editor from 1989 to 1992. Between his stints at InfoWorld, he was senior labs editor at Corporate Computing magazine.