Window 7

sabelu

how good is it?
How easy to upgrade from vista to premium

davester

you mean vista to 7, you can only use upgrades for like for like versions, home premiem to home premium etc.

Other wise you have to buy a full version of windows 7 premium.

as a side note last weeks 15 updates have fixed most of my vista related problems. now firefox update the same way that MS did IE8 and I will be super happy. Using IE is like having a cassette player as my portable music device with everyone else having MP3-4s

sabelu

I got the full version but b4 I install what's it like compared to vista and what are benefits etc what tips for install

bigup

very little difference to vista, you wont really notice much change, except the layout and of the task bar and a few changes to the way you organise the screen etc. My laptop now does start and shut down at quick speeds and W7 is very very light on hard drive usage. vista with all my programs took about 80 gig, i have managed to setup W7 with all my programs and only used 20 gig!

installation was very very easy - i used the format option to totally wipe vista and install a clean version of W7. took only 20 minutes - compare that to XP install of around 5 hours (with service packs) and vista still used to take me a good 2-3 hours to install.

I purchased w7 home premium. it says one licence on the box, does this mean that it will not work if i put it on my desktop aswell??? i purchased thinking i could load it on both my laptop and desktop.

Henry261

sabelu wrote: »

how good is it?
How easy to upgrade from vista to premium

the main job here is to back up the drives before installing.

DCFC79

bigup wrote: »

very little difference to vista, you wont really notice much change, except the layout and of the task bar and a few changes to the way you organise the screen etc. My laptop now does start and shut down at quick speeds and W7 is very very light on hard drive usage. vista with all my programs took about 80 gig, i have managed to setup W7 with all my programs and only used 20 gig!

installation was very very easy - i used the format option to totally wipe vista and install a clean version of W7. took only 20 minutes - compare that to XP install of around 5 hours (with service packs) and vista still used to take me a good 2-3 hours to install.

I purchased w7 home premium. it says one licence on the box, does this mean that it will not work if i put it on my desktop aswell??? i purchased thinking i could load it on both my laptop and desktop.

i think its 1 licence per 1 machine soyou install it on the laptop but you cant install it on the pc well you could as long as only 1 was connected to the internet

sabelu

Henry261 wrote: »

the main job here is to back up the drives before installing.

How to do this then

Marty_J

In Japan, Burger King thinks it's this good:

Henry261

sabelu wrote: »

How to do this then

are you planning for dual boot?

sabelu

Henry261 wrote: »

are you planning for dual boot?

What's this dual boot

Henry261

sabelu wrote: »

What's this dual boot

having both vista and windows 7 on same PC