Upgrading to Windows 7 HALP

[Odesseiron]

Okay so I've done the whole formatting your HD thing and reinstalled Vista. Tomorrow I'm thinking of getting a copy of Windows 7 Home because I have most of it covered in Best Buy gift certs.

I'm guessing I can just upgrade because I have a legitmate copy of Vista already. I don't need all the other features that the other versions have to offer.

I could probably just look most of this crap up, but I'd just like some input about it with people who have done the upgrade. Windows 7 runs a bit faster than Vista, correct? Do I just need to pop in the upgrade disk and it will take care of itself for the most part, or do I have to go and reinstall all my crap after it's done (I assume the latter) Also, will all my games be compatable with Windows 7? I'm sure most will be, like Mass Effect, Prototype, RE5, etc etc. I don't really have any old games for PC, most are new. Thanks for any input you can offer

[Pikarya]

Your games are going to work just fine. Unless you still play MS-DOS games on 5 1/2 inch floppies, you have nothing to worry about.

[Nyima]

Your games are going to work just fine. Unless you still play MS-DOS games on 5 1/4 inch floppies, you have nothing to worry about.

ftfy

Some of those 5 1/4 floppy games were awesome!

[Odesseiron]

One of my favorite old games was Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego

[guartz]

gorillas and bananas from qbasic.

[Milks]

fuckin commander keen

[Caiyuo]

The "upgrade" route, as opposed to a full reinstall, is actually pretty stream-lined. You slip in the disc while you're on your computer and choose to upgrade and it begins the process and after about 2 hours with any luck you'll be running Windows 7 with all your programs and files intact. As long as it went intended you shouldn't need to reinstall anything unless a program just flat-out doesn't work with Windows 7 specifically, but the purpose of an upgrade is so you don't have to do go through the hassle of backing up and reinstalling anything. Also, if something goes wrong it will simply roll-back and revert to Vista so you're safe there.

Most will likely say to do a full reinstall for the sake of performance and cleanliness, but an upgrade is fine, too. I just did it myself for a family computer so as to avoid reinstalling every PopCap game known to man and it was a very straightforward.

[Furtwangler]

If you're going to upgrade, make sure you buy the upgrade, not the whole package of windows 7, I mean you can if you want to make it easier to reformat for future uses but you only need the upgrade which is like 1/4 the cost.

[Odesseiron]

Yeah I ended up buying just the upgrade. From what I was reading though, I can't upgrade from my 32bit Vista to 64 bit Windows 7, I'd need to do a custom install, which is fine. Looks like I'll need to install everything all over again, but no big deal.

[Ratatapa]

Do you actually have a PC to support 64bits?

[Odesseiron]

Yes, and I am currently posting on it as we speak! Or type... whatever. It runs soooo smooth.

[Pikarya]

Can you watch 73 streaming vidyas of porn, all at once?

[Haylie]

Anyone know a fix to windower on windows 7? I am thinking of upgrading tomorrow and have a few LS members complaining about it even after setting it to admin.

[Caiyuo]

Anyone know a fix to windower on windows 7? I am thinking of upgrading tomorrow and have a few LS members complaining about it even after setting it to admin.

It seems to have a somewhat random success rate as I didn't have to do a thing to get 7 to work with XI, but perhaps less so with x64. If it doesn't work, try looking at this thread for solutions: http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/showthread.php?t=67982

[bungiefan]

The "upgrade" route, as opposed to a full reinstall, is actually pretty stream-lined. You slip in the disc while you're on your computer and choose to upgrade and it begins the process and after about 2 hours with any luck you'll be running Windows 7 with all your programs and files intact. As long as it went intended you shouldn't need to reinstall anything unless a program just flat-out doesn't work with Windows 7 specifically, but the purpose of an upgrade is so you don't have to do go through the hassle of backing up and reinstalling anything. Also, if something goes wrong it will simply roll-back and revert to Vista so you're safe there.

Most will likely say to do a full reinstall for the sake of performance and cleanliness, but an upgrade is fine, too. I just did it myself for a family computer so as to avoid reinstalling every PopCap game known to man and it was a very straightforward.

When it works, the upgrade in-place option is nice, but I'd rather not do it. At work we do installs of Windows 7 for customers, and for those that have opted to try to keep their files and programs with upgrade in-place, I only have a 33% success rate. The other 2/3rds of the time the system gets stuck in an endless loop trying to restore back to Vista and rebooting itself for hours and I have to boot from the CD and wipe the hard drive to get the system working again.

Also, the upgrade in-place will bring any corrupt system settings to the new OS, and runs more risk for bugs. I'd always opt for a clean install in the first place to reduce bugs in the system, and I reinstall every year anyway to clean out settings and DLLs cluttering my system and slowing it down.