I Got My WIndows 7 Upgrade..Now What?
Tuesday, December 22, 2009 by PoSmedley | Discussion: Personal Computing
I got my free WIndows 7 upgrade. Now I'm afraid to install it.
Anyone wanna walk me through this?
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Reply #42 Monday, December 28, 2009 10:38 PM
So glad all my data is stored on a separate physical drive, and anything that is stored on the system drive is automatically backed up to the external through SyncBackSE. Boy I sure don't miss having to backup and restore data when formatting.
Now if only I had $1100 to build a new machine to put 7 on. 
Reply #43 Monday, December 28, 2009 11:16 PM
Cost me over $3k [AUD] for mine...
.....worth every penny...
Reply #44 Monday, December 28, 2009 11:51 PM
The one I want is just a modest machine from scratch, want to leave my XP box intact.
Reply #45 Tuesday, December 29, 2009 1:33 AM
7 runs fine on my machine and I don't have the best system out there. 7 runs faster on here than XP did as far as booting and starting programs.
You really don't need to spend much to get a good system for 7.
Reply #46 Tuesday, December 29, 2009 1:43 AM
Perhaps, but there's a difference between "just enough" and wanting a good machine that'll last for a few years. 
Being a huge geek and wanting the latest and greatest doesn't help much either. 
Reply #47 Tuesday, December 29, 2009 2:41 AM
I'm hanging back on installing my upgrade, too. I believe a clean install is best, but I haven't felt like messing with all that backing up. Plus, I worry about what programs I use that won't work on win 7, like PSP8 and my email client. 
Reply #48 Tuesday, December 29, 2009 4:05 AM
Bebi - My machine is a bit more than "just enough". 
Reply #49 Tuesday, December 29, 2009 7:49 AM
works fine on my win 7
Reply #50 Tuesday, December 29, 2009 8:27 AM
PSP8 works fine for me on Win 7 64 bit.
I have yet to experiance a problem with software or hardware once I turned off UAC. Your mileage might vary.
Reply #53 Tuesday, December 29, 2009 9:22 AM
My previous post did not come out well so here it is again:
I've read in some sites that a clean install can be done from an upgrade CD. Personally I would rather do a clean install myself although I can understand some peoples hesitation to want to reinstall all the software they currently have on their computer. I rather enjoy reistalling them, pasting the back-up files myself (such as game saves) and making sure all my favorite short cuts are where they should be. But that's just me. For example, some of the files for my Call of Duty World at War are saved under the Users folder on Vista while my Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare are saved in the same forlder as the game itself.
Here is a site that can help you decide the best way to install Windows 7:
http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/win7_upgrade.asp
And here is how to do the clean install with an update:
http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/clean_install_upgrade_media.asp
Hope this helps.
Reply #54 Tuesday, December 29, 2009 3:52 PM
Of course you can! In fact, a clean install is the only upgrade path from XP to Win 7... and it can be installed on a serarate drive/partition through the 'custom install' option. This option leaves XP (previous OSes) intact and backing up especially is not necessary.
Reply #55 Monday, January 4, 2010 3:23 AM
What is the best way to go from Vista 32-bit to Win7 64-bit?
Reply #56 Monday, January 4, 2010 8:17 AM
It has to be a clean install... upgrade installation from 32 to 64 bit does not take.
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Reply #41 Monday, December 28, 2009 10:02 PM
Why would anyone want to keep Vista around?
For skinning,
You could make up some Virtual Machines for other versions of Windows.