I purchased a used Dell E6500 laptop, and while the computer has been wiped clean, I do have operating system disks for both XP Professional and Vista Business. However, perhaps for registration purposes, the WINDOWS proof of license sticker that is LOCATED under the battery is for Vista Business. Does it matter which operating system I install?

Once the operating system is installed, should I upgrade to Windows 7? Do Vista since that's what it came with...remember to visit the Manuf. site and DLoad and install all the Vista Drivers...
As to whether it'll run 7 i'd 1st see if the drivers are available...and 2nd Post the SPECS of the PC and someone will take a look and advise...Dell Latitude E6500
http://www.dell.com/support/troubleshooting/us/en/555/Product/latitude-e6500

On System Configuration tab,
Enter your service tag To See Your factory issued system configuration.

Win7 is supported, if you have enough RAM.Actually ended up with two of these laptops, which I thought were the same, but they are not (one's better than I thought).

1st one:
4 GB Ram; 140 GB hard drive

2nd one:
2 GB Ram; 80 GB hard drive

Both have the INTEL Core2 Duo CPU; P8600 @ 2.40 GHz; 32-bit operating system.

Quote from: badgerone5 on April 23, 2013, 06:17:09 PM

...Both have the Intel Core2 Duo CPU; P8600 @ 2.40 GHz; 32-bit operating system.