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Win 7 upgrade DVD - does original OS matter?

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Dougmeister

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I bought some laptops last year and got XP installed on them rather than Vista. I ordered the 1st free upgrade to Windows 7 immediately and did not do the last few free upgrades until later.

While I was filling out the forms for the later ones, the dropdown said "Original Operating System" and *only* listed Vista (not XP). I ordered the upgrades anyway because Dell was being such a pain about them (it was like pulling teeth). I asked several times why it did not list XP as an option, and more importantly, did it matter.

So my question for you folks:

Would the upgrade DVD from Vista -> Windows 7 be the same physical media as XP -> Windows 7?
 
yes.

You may not need this tip, but i'm going to post it anyway in case future readers are interested. Before you upgrade though,I recommend you strip your XP or vista installation down (delete unnecessary programs to free space) and image your XP or vista partition and stash it somewhere. Your upgrade disc will need to detect an XP or greater installation in order to work. The great thing is that if you boot from the disc it will do the check prior to setting partitions so you can do a clean install. The reason I say create the image is because if you ever need to do another clean install of win7 (say your hard drive crashes) you can just image the new drive with the old install, and then go direct to booting the win7 install disc, thus preventing the requirement of reinstalling and reactivating the old OS. Don't worry about booting into the image, its not necessary. Just go straight from image restore to Win7 install boot. Then you just repartition and go.
 
I also recommend to look at the StartUp, and take out any thing that it is an add-on and is Not needed for the regular operation of the OS.

Some of the stuff in the StartUp might be incompatible with the new OS, and will slow down the whole process.

It is also a good idea to uninstall, or if possible prevent from starting, 3rd party Firewalls and AV so that they do not interfere with the new OS building the new Network part of the system.

This free application works with all Windows versions and makes it easy to check uncheck StartUp Entries without any need to really change any thing.

Thus uncheck Entries before Upgrade, and re-check after what ever is still relevant there after.


http://www.ezlan.net/infestation.html#startup



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