Win 7 upgrade install time

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Well I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade my vista x64 copy to win7 x64, ow long will this take as I'm doing the setup now and it's at ''gathering files, settings and programs 0%'', any ideas how long this will take ?




Hope it was worth it when I'm done, it'll run on my q6700 @ 3.2ghz, 6gb ram, GTX260 216sp EVGA SSC edition :).
 
A fresh install (which I would recommend) takes about 30-40 minutes (Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, conventional hard disk) so use that as a yard stick. It really does depend how many files you have.

If there is no compelling reason not to do a fresh install I would seriously consider it.
 
Fresh install will never be an option to me i have way too much apps to install it would take me weeks to get it like I want to. It's now at 42% of 'transferring files, settings and progtrams' , the last stage of setup :).
But really, installing over 200 of games and apps takes way too long if i'd have to reinstall all of it I would never have bothered
 
TheVoice said:
If you've got 200 games and apps installed, it sounds like your PC could use a clean install of Windows anyway.
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Rubbish been there done that, all it did is waste my time spending ages gettting it to run and play what I want. Done it twice with vista once when moving from xp 2nd ttime when my hdd died it's only stress and hassle.
 
So what you probably don't want to hear right now is that in a recent test an upgrade install with a reasonable amount of programs etc took 21 hours? :D

Okay, that was on a mid-range PC which I would suggest you are more than a little above spec-wise. I think on average on a high end PC it was an hour or so.

That said, a fresh install is always prefered, and most definitely not just a waste of time.
 
I suppose 200+ programs is a compelling reason not to do a fresh install. ;)

On a related note, for that sort of system I would certainly clone the install if you have a big enough external drive. I would also look into RAID1 so a HD death won't affect you so much in future.
 
Clean installs are the way to go, How many of those "200" apps do you actually use?
My Windows 7 install with all the same stuff I actually used installed boots up over a minute faster than Vista ... and I'd given the Vista machine a pretty decent pruning so I could clone it onto an 80GB SSD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsSliZPsFoA
 
Ok so I have win7 now, how do I move my sidebar ( can't bloody find anything about a sidebar anymore just rubbish about the gadgets) to my 2nd screen and make it stay ''always on top'' ?
 
snowdog said:
Ok so I have win7 now, how do I move my sidebar ( can't bloody find anything about a sidebar anymore just rubbish about the gadgets) to my 2nd screen and make it stay ''always on top'' ?
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There's no sidebar anymore. Instead you have desktop gadgets which can be moved around, shown on top of other windows etc. There's a hack that involves replacing some of the files with old Vista ones, but it was shoddy when I tried it. Google is your friend.
 
Agree with the format installs only! :)

Also what are you doing for a licence key? installing the RTM and putting the licence key in when you get your retail copy?
 
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