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Win 7 upgrade took 34 hours!

We can't really tell you anything because we don't know if you tried to install the 32 bit or the 64 bit version. We also need to know the model # of the laptop, processor, amount of memory that's installed.

reply to realeyes33
Did you use dynamic updates while installing? Upgrades can take a long time with win7. You might want to download drivers directly from Acer and do a clean install.

reply to realeyes33
did you use the MS Update Advisor to see if you laptop was compatible with Win 7?

reply to realeyes33
If you removed all your files, why not just do a clean install? This is exactly what I'm talking about when I preach it's never a good idea to do OS "upgrades".
Example: My 6 yr old Averatech laptop with absolutely no Windows 7 support what so ever (hell I don't know if that company is still around or not) took a half hour to install the OS, and another half hour to re-install all of my programs.
1 hour total for a fresh install that's purrrring like a kitten.
To all of you that will reply how great your "upgrade" went ... well all I can say is good for you, but from my experience that's not the norm ... the problems that the OP is going through is the norm with OS upgrades.
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Completely agree with you.

reply to not quite right
I also agree. When I used the upgrade media, I selected clean install rather than upgrade. It took less than an hour.
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reply to realeyes33
I agree with the clean install. My dell took 35 min 45 secs, from start up to finish including updates and running great!

reply to realeyes33
I just upgraded yesterday. Took just under an hour on a desktop. New install on a laptop a couple of weeks ago, took about the same.

Win 7 install is faster than XP. Something went terribly wrong with your installation.

reply to realeyes33

reply to not quite right
Well, er ... only an hour to reinstall all software. Okaaaay.

I did the upgrade from Windows XP MCE 2005 (32-bit) to Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit). Just XP to 7 alone means no "upgrade-in-place". After a false start for failing to properly asses the changes (I should have wiped the HP recovery partition, and upgraded the BIOS before the upgrade), I tried again.

I used the 'migwiz' utility (ran the 32-bit version on XP). That alone took well over an hour (more like four or five) just to copy the user accounts to the USB drive.

The upgrade, itself, only took around half an hour, or so. On the retry (the first attempt I don't count, except as a 'dry run'; I expected issues because I don't routinely upgrade OSes) I selected the "format" option. This did not create that useless "Windows.old" directory, or retain other unnecessary folders from the old install. I ran the "Easy transfer utility" from within Windows 7 (the other half of 'migwiz'). Another four hours, or so.

Therefore, it took me at least eight and a half hours; four to save account customizations, half to actually upgrade, and four to restore account customizations.

And that is not counting re-installation of all software (Belarc list ran to two and a half pages for what was on the XP computer). And not all are playing nice with Windows 7 (64-bit). I was able to use a compatibility mode to get the Belkin BBU Power Management software running. But I don't think I'll ever get the Netgear print server (through an old FR114P router) or Z-SAN drivers to run.

Other than those, and issues with an ancient DeskJet 820 Cse, I think I am okay, though.

Oh, and 40tude Dialog. I should not have installed it, I should have just copied the install folder straight over. It doesn't need registry entries (I found out after the fact). I'll have to redo that one.
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reply to realeyes33
For me it seems as if the preparation for install took longer then the actual install of Windows 7 and by that I mean backing up systems to our Windows Home Server. I think the upgrade took about an hour or maybe a little longer. I didn’t really give it my full attention although it seemed fast overall (I‘ve seen faster but those were fresh full installs).

Unfortunately, I may actually want to perform some hardware upgrades on the HP P6150 system after the fact. I’d like to upgrade the HDD from 500GB to ~1TB and I also might want to upgrade the Intel E5300 to something like a Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 or Q8400. The integrated Intel video subsystem should probably be upgraded to something like a 9500GT or HD 3470 too as this will eventually have a Ceton 4x CableCard (I hope) for use as a dedicated Media Center system.

Good thing I didn’t activate yet. Although the system does run rather well IMO and judging on performance alone there is nothing stopping me from activating it besides the pending hardware upgrades.

Very little preparation was necessary after the Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit install though.

EZ,...

reply to realeyes33
No sign of the OP since the question was asked early Saturday morning.

So, locking this up.