Vista to 7 upgrade advice please.
My desktop is currently running Windows Vista Home Premium SP2 64bit and i think its time to upgrade to 7.
However, there is years worth of settings, installed programs (some paid for, some not:)) and i have the pc runninb the way i like it. Will Microsoft Office still work? I rely on Word and Outlook.
Will a new OS flatten everything? Or will an upgrade move everything over too?
Lastly, any links to the best place to buy the upgrade software?
Ta!
Re: Vista to 7 upgrade advice please.
Personally I would reformat and do a clean install. It will run faster and be more reliable if all the clutter is removed. I normally take a screen shot of my desktop and my programs list so that I can see what programs I was using before. Maybe a few months down the line I would need a simple freeware program, to rename files for example, and a quick look at the list or desktop image I created before the clean install will tell me what I have used in the past.
Whether you are upgrading or not you should always have a backup of your favourites/bookmarks and everything else like photos and documents you can't really afford to lose anyway. If not then it's something you need to do now whether you do a fresh install or an upgrade.
Unless its something really specialised most of the software you will need is available from the usual sources on an 'extended' trial basis. (">
Re: Vista to 7 upgrade advice please.
If you have a spare hdd , install 7 to that ,so you can fall back till you get everything sorted on 7 ,
just use f2 on boot , and select the drive .
Re: Vista to 7 upgrade advice please.
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Originally Posted by
plug1
If you have a spare hdd , install 7 to that ,so you can fall back till you get everything sorted on 7 ,
just use f2 on boot , and select the drive .
Good idea. That's what I did when I went from XP to Win7. Whenever I wanted to do something that wasn't installed on Win7, and didn't have time to grab the latest version for installing on there, I would select the old drive during boot up and have my old system back up to get the job done. (">
Re: Vista to 7 upgrade advice please.
Windows Vista and running the way I like it do not deserve to be in the post!
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