Windows 8 who's buying/upgrading

63% now. 21 mins left. dl flying.

They do give you the option to make a DVD back up with the downloaded installation.

And I don't get why people are wanting to do clean installations. It's Windows 7 > Windows 8 for most (all?) of us surely?

I've kept personal settings to be retained and all files etc. just upgrade the OS - I don't see any sense in doing different. As long as your PC isn't riddled with viruses etc.
 
I got a error message after install and it restored Win 7!

Went all the way through the setup and then had a wobbler during one of the reboots.
 
smr said:
63% now. 21 mins left. dl flying.

They do give you the option to make a DVD back up with the downloaded installation.

And I don't get why people are wanting to do clean installations. It's Windows 7 > Windows 8 for most (all?) of us surely?

I've kept personal settings to be retained and all files etc. just upgrade the OS - I don't see any sense in doing different. As long as your PC isn't riddled with viruses etc.
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My PC has a few quirks with drivers and such atm, I'm going to try an upgrade first if that isn't great I'll do a fresh install.
 
smr said:
63% now. 21 mins left. dl flying.

They do give you the option to make a DVD back up with the downloaded installation.

And I don't get why people are wanting to do clean installations. It's Windows 7 > Windows 8 for most (all?) of us surely?

I've kept personal settings to be retained and all files etc. just upgrade the OS - I don't see any sense in doing different. As long as your PC isn't riddled with viruses etc.
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The reason I've done is because A. It's a fresh start B. It forces you to go looking through all the settings - so you see all the new things C. There are even problems going from Mac OS X versions so I ALWAYS do a clean install of anything (that I can).


Aaaaaaaaand I'm in :D
 
smr said:
63% now. 21 mins left. dl flying.

They do give you the option to make a DVD back up with the downloaded installation.

And I don't get why people are wanting to do clean installations. It's Windows 7 > Windows 8 for most (all?) of us surely?

I've kept personal settings to be retained and all files etc. just upgrade the OS - I don't see any sense in doing different. As long as your PC isn't riddled with viruses etc.
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so will i keep all settings on my c drive after an upgrade ie steam, origin, ect..
 
Okay I have a problem here I have a about 15gb free and its saying it needs at least 20GB space, ive removed a few things but only have the 15GB the rest seems to be taken up by my Current Win7 install..anythign I can do about that?
 
The £24.99 copy is upgrade, right? I need to keep my Windows 7 Retail disks if I buy it? Only asking because they're worth a few bob - would rather sell them than leave them on a shelf gathering dust.
 
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