Windows vista ultimate to 7 help

[tesher06]

I'm getting Windows 7 Ultimate and I am currently using Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit. I am wondering if I have to actually do a clean install with the upgrade option or will all my apps and files work without needing to reinstall anything?

 

[VirusType2]

Sure, you need to format the drive, from what I've read.

 

[Edracon]

do a clean install.. using the "upgrade" button can cause many blue screens later on (speaking from experience). Once you do this, all of your programs and files will be moved to a folder called "windows.old" or something like that in your documents folder. Or you could make a partition before you do a clean install.

And no, you don't have to format the drive... that's a bad idea.

 

[VirusType2]

I'm getting Windows 7 Ultimate and I am currently using Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit. I am wondering if I have to actually do a clean install with the upgrade option or will all my apps and files work without needing to reinstall anything?

I've never found any benefit to backing up the stuff. WINDOWS_[Backup Date].

All those gigs will just stay on your drive forever because you won't feel like messing with it, yet you will fear there is something in there so you'll never delete it. I still have 2 different windows backups (on 2 different drives) that I've never needed anything from. I've had the same installation for 3 years now, though.

Scour the HDD carefully. Back up your photos, emails, images, and whatever else to DVD, verify the contents, then wipe it off the map.

Truthfully, you should do both. Upgrade it in place, then see how it works. If there are some issues, you may just want to format it.

When I did a repair of Windows, leaving everything intact, I had to reinstall things anyway. Even my DVD player codecs were gone... So now I want to just format and start over. I don't want to find unexplainable issues somewhere down the road...

 

[tesher06]

Hmm I'll back up my stuff and upgrade it to see how it works.