I’m still using XP Pro until MS stop supporting XP at 2014 and by that time the OS might be W9 or W10, I prefer to hand on to XP as long as you can until MS say they will stop supporting it sooner or until 2014.
The upgrade advisor has nothing to do with it. Of course it will tell you to run 7 because you can. XP will run faster than Windows 7 on any computer. It’s just a fact of life. When XP was the new thing, you could put 98SE on a machine that came with XP and it would blaze. It’s just a matter of the better hardware in the newer machine. As computers get faster and more capable, programmers find ways to use all that extra power and leave you with a machine that really doesn’t do things any faster than the older ones did with the simpler OS. If you would put XP Pro on that better machine, it would be faster than W7. I have no doubts whatsoever about it.