Comments on: Plan on doing the XP to Windows 7 upgrade dance? http://www.winextra.com/tech/software/plan-on-doing-the-xp-to-windows-7-upgrade-dance/ Satisfying Your Inner Nerd Tue, 22 May 2012 15:55:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Pierre http://www.winextra.com/tech/software/plan-on-doing-the-xp-to-windows-7-upgrade-dance/comment-page-1/#comment-606 Pierre Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:31:16 +0000 http://www.winextra.com/index.php/2009/10/14/plan-on-doing-the-xp-to-windows-7-upgrade-dance/#comment-606 There's another way: borrow a Vista setup DVD. You don't need a serial # to install Vista, only to activate it, so you can simply take advantage of the allowed upgrade paths, and upgrade XP to Vista, then upgrade Vista to W7. It'll take longer, but you won't need to do the backup/restore dance. You can also curse Microsoft for not allowing the XP to W7 upgrade path, which is a purely marketing decision – the difference between Vista and W7 isn't that great, so it should be technically possible to go straight from XP to W7. Not that cursing will help, but it'll be a real relief ;)) There's another way: borrow a Vista setup DVD. You don't need a serial # to install Vista, only to activate it, so you can simply take advantage of the allowed upgrade paths, and upgrade XP to Vista, then upgrade Vista to W7. It'll take longer, but you won't need to do the backup/restore dance.

You can also curse Microsoft for not allowing the XP to W7 upgrade path, which is a purely marketing decision – the difference between Vista and W7 isn't that great, so it should be technically possible to go straight from XP to W7. Not that cursing will help, but it'll be a real relief ;) )

]]> By: Pierre http://www.winextra.com/tech/software/plan-on-doing-the-xp-to-windows-7-upgrade-dance/comment-page-1/#comment-3997 Pierre Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:31:00 +0000 http://www.winextra.com/index.php/2009/10/14/plan-on-doing-the-xp-to-windows-7-upgrade-dance/#comment-3997 There's another way: borrow a Vista setup DVD. You don't need a serial # to install Vista, only to activate it, so you can simply take advantage of the allowed upgrade paths, and upgrade XP to Vista, then upgrade Vista to W7. It'll take longer, but you won't need to do the backup/restore dance. You can also curse Microsoft for not allowing the XP to W7 upgrade path, which is a purely marketing decision – the difference between Vista and W7 isn't that great, so it should be technically possible to go straight from XP to W7. Not that cursing will help, but it'll be a real relief ;)) There's another way: borrow a Vista setup DVD. You don't need a serial # to install Vista, only to activate it, so you can simply take advantage of the allowed upgrade paths, and upgrade XP to Vista, then upgrade Vista to W7. It'll take longer, but you won't need to do the backup/restore dance.

You can also curse Microsoft for not allowing the XP to W7 upgrade path, which is a purely marketing decision – the difference between Vista and W7 isn't that great, so it should be technically possible to go straight from XP to W7. Not that cursing will help, but it'll be a real relief ;) )

]]> By: Mark 'Rizzn' hopkins http://www.winextra.com/tech/software/plan-on-doing-the-xp-to-windows-7-upgrade-dance/comment-page-1/#comment-605 Mark 'Rizzn' hopkins Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:59:28 +0000 http://www.winextra.com/index.php/2009/10/14/plan-on-doing-the-xp-to-windows-7-upgrade-dance/#comment-605 Couldn't you just use the backup utility to get everything valuable (or do a Mozy thing to get all the programs, too), and then clean full (non-upgrade) install >> restore data? Seems like that'd be a simpler path than the custom install. Though, for the record, I did the custom install upgrade option from Vista to 7 during the beta, and it was relatively painless. Couldn't you just use the backup utility to get everything valuable (or do a Mozy thing to get all the programs, too), and then clean full (non-upgrade) install >> restore data?

Seems like that'd be a simpler path than the custom install.

Though, for the record, I did the custom install upgrade option from Vista to 7 during the beta, and it was relatively painless.

]]> By: Mark 'Rizzn' hopkins http://www.winextra.com/tech/software/plan-on-doing-the-xp-to-windows-7-upgrade-dance/comment-page-1/#comment-3996 Mark 'Rizzn' hopkins Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:59:00 +0000 http://www.winextra.com/index.php/2009/10/14/plan-on-doing-the-xp-to-windows-7-upgrade-dance/#comment-3996 Couldn't you just use the backup utility to get everything valuable (or do a Mozy thing to get all the programs, too), and then clean full (non-upgrade) install >> restore data? Seems like that'd be a simpler path than the custom install. Though, for the record, I did the custom install upgrade option from Vista to 7 during the beta, and it was relatively painless. Couldn't you just use the backup utility to get everything valuable (or do a Mozy thing to get all the programs, too), and then clean full (non-upgrade) install >> restore data?

Seems like that'd be a simpler path than the custom install.

Though, for the record, I did the custom install upgrade option from Vista to 7 during the beta, and it was relatively painless.

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