Windows 7 Clean Install

Island Dog

Join Date 06/2003

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Windows 7 Clean Install

Last Thursday I was able to finally grab the Windows 7 RTM off of MSDN and get it installed without any issues. I spent a great deal of Friday and the weekend reinstalling my applications and games, and restoring backups. After all that was done I did made a disk image of the install, and everything was just about done.

Here is my desktop after all that. I haven’t had time to add any customizations, that will come this week.

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Phoon

Join Date 10/2001

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Should I expect a bunch of stupid little glitches since this operating system is still new? Or will it work nicely since it's been in testing for a while?

I'm running 7 x64 Ultimate. I primarily play WoW and it is performing faster on a Nvidia 8600. I suspect you'll have no worries.

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For the upgrade all you need is to have Vista or XP installed somewhere on your computer and then it will allow a clean install I believe.

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reneckdude, according to the ms rep i spoke to the other day, you can do a clean install with the upgrade version of professional and ultimate. i did not ask about home premium, so i can't vouch for it.

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Windows 7 Upgrade Details for XP and Vista Users - Upgrading - Lifehacker

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LightStar

Join Date 12/2002

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I just got legal access to the retail version of windows 7 from work...

Well, I would certainly ask your boss about putting it on your home PC ...

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RedneckDude

Join Date 04/2009

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Did you look at the details of the order? it would say upgrade, if it doesn't you probably bought the full edition (which is probably recommended given this is microsoft) if you bought it for 119 US you got upgrade and more than you got full.

It says upgrade and I paid $49.00 but sometimes, I heard that upgrade discs will allow a full install. I don't know, so I figure someone here will.

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RedneckDude

Join Date 04/2009

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For the upgrade all you need is to have Vista or XP installed somewhere on your computer and then it will allow a clean install I believe.

I hope so, I want to dual boot, and keep Vista.

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It says upgrade and I paid $49.00 but sometimes, I heard that upgrade discs will allow a full install. I don't know, so I figure someone here will.

Check my link in #29

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RedneckDude

Join Date 04/2009

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Got this from the above link!!!

The red is almost my scenario, I ordered 7 Home Premium and I have Vista Home Prem. Hopefully, it means I can dual boot.

From Windows Vista to Windows 7

Microsoft will only allow the following upgrade paths to Vista users. For example, users who purchase an upgrade copy of Windows 7 Professional and have Vista Home Premium will only be able to perform a clean install. Here's the migration list:

Windows Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Home Premium
Windows Vista Business to Windows 7 Professional
Windows Vista Ultimate to Windows 7 Ultimate

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I still wonder how the upgrade process works though. I don't have an XP install on my PC at the moment (it's W7 RC) but I do have an XP license code. Then again I might wanna use that license on another hand-me-down PC for my girlfriend.

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To clean install or upgrade? That is the question.

I have an MSDN subscription through my work so this weekend I downloaded the Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit RTM. I own an ASUS G50vt gaming laptop. My wife owns an HP dv123 (or whatever the model is; can't remember). Both of them were running Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit. I was debating whether or not to upgrade or do a clean install. I have a LOT of games on my laptop and my wife has a LOT of pictures and email addresses and such on her laptop. I looked around the internet and found LOTS of posts about always doing a clean install since you never know what 'sticks around' after an upgrade and you want to make sure that you are getting rid of everything.

Well, I went the upgrade route on BOTH laptops mostly because I don't own an external hard drive and didn't want to take the time to move stuff to one computer/install/move it back/etc. I'm here to report that the upgrade route went FLAWLESSLY. After it was done I checked all my programs and everything is working just fine. I checked my wife's and everything is working just fine with one exception. HP has that Quick Play bar that runs across the top of the keyboard and has buttons like Play, Skip, etc. We use it occassionally but not much. Well, as soon as you boot up her laptop and the OS loads you get a popup that says the HP Quick Play is not compatible with this version of Windows. Options are to find a solution online or run the program or cancel out of the window. I first clicked the 'Check online for a solution' button and it basically said that it couldn't find a solution. So, next I tried 'Run Program' and it works just fine. No problems.

So, long story short, the upgrade path (instead of the clean install path) is definitely a viable solution and worked like a charm for me on two different brands of laptop. And it is definitely a SWEET operating system. Supremely easy to find stuff and I can't wait to setup my 'Homegroup' which allows me to browse my wife's laptop while I'm on my laptop, and vice versa.

Have fun!

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