Anybody Done a Vista to Win7 Upgrade?

XeNoN89 · 10 Sep 2009 at 16:59

I never usualy do upgrades, always a fresh install. But im tempted to upgrade my Vista computer to 7 as i have been using it at work and its a good improvement. Anybody done an upgrade? If so how did it go? Did all drivers and software carry over fine?

Thanks.

Memphis · 10 Sep 2009 at 17:00

Some upgrades will go fine and dandy, others will fail horrifically.

The general concencious is always do a fresh install, but I think 7 gives you the best chance of getting away with an upgrade to date.

ChileanLlama · 10 Sep 2009 at 17:04

There's an article on winsupersite.com about in place Vista to 7 upgrades - which was meant to be pretty painless.

But I'm with Memphis all the way...Clean install every time.

IAmATeaf · 10 Sep 2009 at 17:21

I did an upgrade from Vista x64 to Windows 7. Had a few problems in that the Win7 install wouldn't run cause I'd moved my user profiles and shared folder onto another disk but once I moved them back onto C: it installed and upgraded without any problems. I then moved the users profiles and shared folder back to where they used to be.

One word of advice about the upgrade is that some applications needed to be re-registered and some other needed to be removed and re-installed. It should flag up a warning beforehand but I chose to ignore it and had to do the remove/re-install afterwards anyway.

Burnsy2023 · 10 Sep 2009 at 18:28

I did an upgrade, no issues what so ever

Atom · 10 Sep 2009 at 18:54

MS recommends a clean install.

Burnsy2023 · 10 Sep 2009 at 18:55

Atom said:
MS recommends a clean install.

Indeed, but when you have as many applications as I do, a clean install isn't really an option at this time.

Senture · 10 Sep 2009 at 20:58

Done 2 upgrades so far. Vista Basic to Win7 Ultimate and Home Premium to Ultimate. Installed bitched about a few things which were resolved, whole transition was flawless. Both were 2 low powered laptops.