Comments on: How to upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7: A Twelve-Step Program

By: Jeff Arbor

Jeff Arbor — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:19:54 +0000

We saw something like this in our corner of Michigan recently.

Can’t wait all these XP systems to start needing upgrades.

Thanks for the post.

By: Jeff Arbor

Jeff Arbor — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:03:50 +0000

Interesting.

Sounds like what I was thinking when I was trying to get a disk formatted on an older XP machine.

Thanks for posting.

By: icesnake

icesnake — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:55:12 +0000

Having already gone from XP to Vista 64 to Win 7 64, I agree; a clean install is going to give you a better result in the long run. See my other post, Upgrading from Windows Vista 64 to Windows 7 RC 64 subtitled "How I Learned to Believe Some of Microsoft's Advice." But if you want to get up and going in less than a day, an in-place upgrade will get you there.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:56:09 +0000

Of course, that begs the argument of whether or not the in-place upgrades leave the “cruft” behind of a longer-running install of the Windows OS.

Myself, I plan to do a from-scratch upgrade (on a new HD) when my pre-order comes in, do a lot of housecleaning on files and such, get the installs set, and then image it so I have a nice clean restore point.

Thankfully all my hardware has worked in the beta and RC (aside from some hoop jumping for the wireless card).