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I purchased a copy of Win7 Ultimate to upgrade my PC from Win7
HomePremium. Thought I'd relate the experience if anyone is
interested.
First, the hard part (for me!) is always spending money, I found Win7
Ultimate full retail on Ebay for varying prices, spent $140 (not the
cheapest or most expensive but from a reliable seller) and it arrived
VERY quickly, I received notice it'd been shipped within hours of
payment.
I'm doing this in probably too much detail to show almost anyone can do
this upgrade w/o problems.
Yesterday it arrived, I'd already created a fresh image of drive C: for
backup so I put the 64 bit DVD in the PC and told it to "Upgrade", got
a message to stop and use the Anytime upgrade feature (I was debating
between this and fresh install, decided to try the upgrade.) Clicking
on "Help" and entering "Anytime Upgrade" got me to an on-line answer
that said, "Click here to start Anytime Upgrade", clicked and was
offered a choice to go online to buy Win7 or enter product key if I'd
already purchased. I entered the key, got a message that the key was
being checked and then a message that the upgrade would take 10 minutes
or more......
It did it. The PC rebooted a couple of times but required no more
intervention from me other than to log on when it rebooted.
It took about 15 minutes or less and finished with no problems of any
kind! All works to perfection.
Next, I installed the Windows XP mode and virtual PC with no fuss or
problems. I haven't used the XP emulator yet, that's today's project
but I have to say I'm amazed at how easy everything has been...
RANT MODE:
The above experiment makes me even more frustrated with those who claim
modern OSs are "bloated." I recall the days when OSs were lean and
compact and you had NO HELP OF ANY KIND! Cryptic error codes required
looking up the meaning in a manual but... which manual? Was it an OS
error? Did the spread sheet software give the error? Something else?
I LIKE help files, links, How-To's, etc. and with the price of HDs as
low as they are today, I have no objection to my OS using all the space
it wants to make my life easier!
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HomePremium. Thought I'd relate the experience if anyone is
interested.
First, the hard part (for me!) is always spending money, I found Win7
Ultimate full retail on Ebay for varying prices, spent $140 (not the
cheapest or most expensive but from a reliable seller) and it arrived
VERY quickly, I received notice it'd been shipped within hours of
payment.
I'm doing this in probably too much detail to show almost anyone can do
this upgrade w/o problems.
Yesterday it arrived, I'd already created a fresh image of drive C: for
backup so I put the 64 bit DVD in the PC and told it to "Upgrade", got
a message to stop and use the Anytime upgrade feature (I was debating
between this and fresh install, decided to try the upgrade.) Clicking
on "Help" and entering "Anytime Upgrade" got me to an on-line answer
that said, "Click here to start Anytime Upgrade", clicked and was
offered a choice to go online to buy Win7 or enter product key if I'd
already purchased. I entered the key, got a message that the key was
being checked and then a message that the upgrade would take 10 minutes
or more......
It did it. The PC rebooted a couple of times but required no more
intervention from me other than to log on when it rebooted.
It took about 15 minutes or less and finished with no problems of any
kind! All works to perfection.
Next, I installed the Windows XP mode and virtual PC with no fuss or
problems. I haven't used the XP emulator yet, that's today's project
but I have to say I'm amazed at how easy everything has been...
RANT MODE:
The above experiment makes me even more frustrated with those who claim
modern OSs are "bloated." I recall the days when OSs were lean and
compact and you had NO HELP OF ANY KIND! Cryptic error codes required
looking up the meaning in a manual but... which manual? Was it an OS
error? Did the spread sheet software give the error? Something else?
I LIKE help files, links, How-To's, etc. and with the price of HDs as
low as they are today, I have no objection to my OS using all the space
it wants to make my life easier!
--
XS11E, Killing all posts from Google Groups
The Usenet Improvement Project:
http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/
