Vista to Windows 7 upgrade

I update two laptops and a desktop that wee all running vista home premium. I bought the three system windows7 upgrade at office max and installed it. I had no issues at all by just following the prompts. These computer just had the basic programs installed ( office 2007, some adobe products, etc). They all worked just fine. For my desktop I did have to get some drivers but it was no big deal.

I have read many articles that stated the upgrade from vista to 7 is pretty straightforward. It's the xp to 7 that creates more work.

I haven't noticed any performance problems. Just my experience.

Good luck.
 
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Most of the issues with upgrades is when you've got a junked up OS that's been used and abused for years. If you won't consider a clean install then you've obviously got an OS that's laced with tons of crap like old programs and other garbage. When you go writing over the OS on a system like that, you're just asking for trouble. Now if you take a clean Vista install with just a few programs installed and do an upgrade, it's not a big deal. But if you've got a system that you've used for years and years and you do that to it, the poor thing is just a mess afterwords. I'm guessing since the OP won't even consider a clean install that a lot of stuff is on there. It's not a good idea to do an upgrade to a system like that.
 
Vista SP2 is basically Windows 7 with a different theme/skin. As of SP2 Vista uses the same 6.1 kernel that Windows 7 does (which was the reason 7 was faster than Vista/XP). Upgrading shouldn't be a problem, but I'm sure there are some minor things that wont transfer over properly, see post #15 in this thread.
 
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> if not now then later on it will create some or the other problem

Like what exactly? These kind of statements seem to be woolly & anecdotal.

Of course a full install is the best option, if you don't mind days of downtime whilst you reinstall and set-up many dozens programs, or if you only have a handful of programs to set-up anyway.

But if you need to get rid of Vista and don't want more than a few hours of downtime, then I don't see any reason not to try an upgrade, as long as you take a disk image of your Vista install first.

Personally, if my current upgrade path eventually shows unusual instability or slowness, I think I'd just buy a new laptop and transition to it slowly over a couple of weeks by overlapping usage between my new and old machines - no downtime and no stress.

But for now, I am SO relieved to have got rid of Vista, and I'm ecstatic that it only took a few hours rather than days, and that everything is set-up exactly as I had it.
 
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