 antiphishingPhishing Scam TerminatorPremium
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Re: Trick or Treat, Windows 7 upgrade cripples Vista machines said by rawwhide:Upgrade is a lousy idea. Clean install is the way to go, upgrade is just a catch-phrase. As in "upgrade from Vista". Isn't there a price difference between the full version and the upgrade version? edit - Yep there is a price difference. Many will go with the upgrade version to save money. The asking price is not worth the aggravation in my opinion.
I will stick with slow and highly Bloated Windows Vista. 
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1 edit | said by antiphishing:said by rawwhide:Upgrade is a lousy idea. Clean install is the way to go, upgrade is just a catch-phrase. As in "upgrade from Vista". Isn't there a price difference between the full version and the upgrade version? edit - Yep there is a price difference. Many will go with the upgrade version to save money. The asking price is not worth the aggravation in my opinion. I will stick with slow and highly Bloated Windows Vista. No aggravation at all. I did two installs last last night with Win7 64 bit. One on a laptop and one on a desktop. it went very smoothly. |
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 fireflierCoffee. . .Need CoffeePremium
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I've done a clean install on two PCs with quite good success, and one was a 5-year old laptop that I tested the 90-day enterprise trial version on. I was able to use the OEM drivers supplied for Vista and Win7 was quite happy to use them.
They do also have a 3-license "family" upgrade version of Home Premium for $149 vs. $119 for the single license upgrade version. For anyone with 3 or more PCs, that's a no-brainer and is a pretty reasonable cost in my opinion. I can update one running XP to a zippy stable Win 7, and have updated another running that bloated constipated crap called Vista which was worth it in and of itself to get rid of Vista.
Ordinarily I don't buy a new OS for a year or more after it releases, but after having tested the beta and RC versions, I felt comfortable enough that it was going to be fine.
One of the biggest issues I've seen is that Tune Up Utilities doesn't have a Win7 compatible version yet. 2009 won't install but 2008 will.  I suspect they'll have something out soon though.
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