said by EG:If that is the case then a question would be is how old the XP box is and does it have what it takes to be able to run W7 (adequate RAM etc.) ?
win 7 runs fine on a p4 and even on a P3, with 1gb of ram. Also, RAM is really cheap these days, and since consumer support of xp is being dropped in 2014, anyone still running it will probably become the victim of a zero day flaw that someone has kept quiet about, and MS will never issue an update to fix it. Anyone running windows xp should expect to become part of a botnet after July 2014.