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join:2001-06-23
Puyallup, WA
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Re: Win 7 upgrade took 34 hours! said by NormanS:Well, er ... only an hour to reinstall all software. Okaaaay. Yes between running a Windows Home Server, and not feeling the need to have every piece of software I have running on my laptop .......... things went rather quickly. Install Win 7, Update it, install Office, update it, install MSE, update it. There ... a perfectly running, usable laptop in about hour 
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NormanSPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
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| I don't think my "mail server" really has the resources to run Windows Home Server; it stumbles on Windows XP Home Edition. I do store a lot of install files there, but it isn't beefy enough to run applications. So .......
I have to install all the software I use on this desktop (250 GBytes of HDD). And, if I upgrade by formatting first, guess where the applications go!
Plus, of course, one can't image the system drive before the system is in place. So, for those of us who are hardware challenged, or finance challenged (can't afford hardware capable of running Windows Home Server, much less that OS), one hour to reload applications is an unreasonable expectation. 
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