Comments on: My Personal Windows 7 Upgrade Experience

By: remove system fix virus

remove system fix virus — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:37:00 +0000

Thanks for sharing your experience! I often ask my BF to upgrade for me:)

By: Best Registry Cleaner

Best Registry Cleaner — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 06:58:00 +0000

It took between 30-60 minutes before the Windows 7 desktop was shown.

By: myob2

myob2 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:55:22 +0000

I upgraded to Ubuntu… much better.

By: myob2

myob2 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:55:22 +0000

I upgraded to Ubuntu… much better.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:31:58 +0000

I did an upgrade from XP SP3 to Win 7 Utimate 64 bit. I backup all data some days beforehand then installed 4 GB of RAM and a new 300 gig WD Raptor HDD into a 12 month old computer (privately built).

The install took about 20 mins onto the new drive and everything went perfectly ….. even after a number of reboots to ensure myself all was well…until the next morning.

Boot up next am resulted in a stop after the initial flash screens to say the bootmgr.exe was missing or corrupted. Shit..

To cut a long story short, the system disk asked if it could send a message to Microsoft which I ok’d then basically said it couldnt help and to see a system admin or whatever.

I managed to see the contents of the drives during the process and ended up copying bootmgr.exe from the ram disk created by Win 7 to my usb drive (for safety) then copied this file to the C drive. I rebooted and all was well. No problems since.

The incredible thing was I did all this in DOS as the UI (WIN 7) wasn’t loaded due to the missing 326kb file.

Who said DOS was dead?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:28:26 +0000

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:29:07 +0000

I too had a very easy installation experience. I agree with your comment on the upgrade carrying the weight of the previous OS. Clean install went smoothly and driver support was not an issue. Other than speeding things up (which is really not a necessity since installation it's already very quick) It's difficult to find a major fault in Windows 7 installation.

By: Nuclearrambo

Nuclearrambo — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:35:51 +0000

Installed the RTM 32bit in august or september on old desktop (which i am probably using as a server now a days)
Got a acer 5738 on sept 24. Immidiately installed windows 7 RTM over that too. Since the laptop is faster, the experience is much better than the desktop experience. But still, Windows 7 was faster whereas XP was slow on both the computers.

By: Onuora Amobi

Onuora Amobi — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:30:44 +0000

I'm still on build 7260 with my production data. It's been so good to me that I haven't had the need to upgrade even though I have w7 ultimate.

Thats how good Windows 7 is..

Onuora
http://www.windows7update.com

By: Nuclearrambo

Nuclearrambo — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:35:51 +0000

By: Onuora Amobi

Onuora Amobi — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:30:44 +0000

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:37:29 +0000

There are no differences between the RTM and retail versions – they are the same thing….

Stephen

By: rsriram

rsriram — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:36:16 +0000

My experience was very good:

1) Downloaded x64 RTM Ultimate bits - Hacked ISO to get the version selector (I needed Home Premium)
2) Did a clean install on my x32 Vista Home Basic
3) Waited for Upgrade media
4) Implemented registry hack approach by Paul Thurott (more on this on his site)
5) Rock-n-roll.

More detail on my approach at http://bubhutsa.blogspot.com/2009/09/clean-inst...

By: Mauricio Perez

Mauricio Perez — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:32:53 +0000

nice. i got my copy of ultimate at the conference your talking about this monday in san diego…very nice

apparently, theres a nice easy way to use an upgrade disk to do a clean install. on a clean drive, use upgrade disk to install windows, dont enter the key, once finished on the c: drive, create a new folder titled 'windows.old' enter key and activate. and there ya go…no double installs, no huey, no pain! enjoy

By: Name

Name — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:32:21 +0000

I didnt upgrade yet because those bastards at dell told me i would get a free upgrade but now it turns out that i have to pay €20 administration and shipping fee which I cant pay because i dont have a creditcard

By: chieftain20

chieftain20 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:52:19 +0000

I never actually installed an upgrade. I found the legit Windows 7 Home Premium RTM and installed that about 50 days before the actual release date of 7, and once my copy of W7 came in just activated the install with the key and it works.
GRMCHPXFRER_EN_DVD This is the DVD's name of the 64-bit W7 upgrade disk.
GRMCULXFRER_EN_DVD And this is the W7 RTM one I downloaded.
Only difference between the two is a whopping 12KB and one of the letters are different. So I don't think that is anything to be concerned about. But I haven't had any problems with that copy.

And as far as my desktop goes, I just got a copy of my College's version (and key) of W7 Pro and installed the 64-bit of that in about 20min. and had it up and running no problems at all.

By: Yatti420

Yatti420 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:22:10 +0000

I dont want to do in place upgrades so I have to free up some hard drive space and move date first before i start upgrading from rtm build.. I don't think their are many differences from RTM to Retail if any..

By: DWAnderson

DWAnderson — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:13:16 +0000

I upgraded 6 PCs at our house from Vista to Windwos 7. All upgrades went smoothly: five in-place upgrades and one from Vista Ultimate to Windows 7 Pro that required a reformat and reinstall. Details of the upgrade to our Media Center PC are here: http://thunor.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!71C238B5... All but the latter were completed in about two hours each.

By: Kitty Burgers

Kitty Burgers — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:02:48 +0000

My install from the RC to the final version went smoothly. Strange, that it didn't detect your Creative Soundblaster X-Fi. My installation detected it, downloaded and installed the driver without me having to go to the Creative site to download it. Bizarrely, my installation didn't detect my Microsoft Lifecam Vx-600 webcam (go fugure), this, I had to download manually, but it installed without any problems. My Logitech webcam (Communicate STX) tried to download in install a driver for it, but during the install, spit out an error message that said the software wasn't designed for my operating system (nice). This was also the case during the install of the RC. However, I discovered that Logitech has an “all-new” version, which I downloaded in installed. It also came in a 64bit version as well (it's about time). The driver for my ATI 650 PCI TV tuner wasn't detected either, but I was expecting this. The only way to install it is to manually point to the driver directory within the device manager. Otherwise, it work just fine. No other problems to report, other than the fact that my desktop machine now goes into sleep mode all by itself, as it should. This wasn't the case with the RC. An annoying side-effect, however, is that when you set up a media extender, the sleep mode is automatically set to “never”, without a warning message.