Windows 7 w7 pro > ultimate ?

[tryon]

I have W7 pro installed on 2 computers with my msdn-aa license.

I just arrived from microsoft's align-it tour yesterday in Quebec city and they gave us a free w7 ultimate. I would like to try out bitlocker so I need to install this "higher" version.

I tried putting the new CDkey but he said I would have to run through the whole setup again so my question is this:
If I "upgrade" my w7 pro to w7 ultimate will I have to reinstall all my program/settings ?

 

[tryon]

In this case it's an upgrade from W7 pro to W7 ultimate so I only wanted to know in this particular case, I never upgrade from 2 different OS, but in this case it's the same "base" os so maybe it would only add the missing modules from my profesionnal edition...

 

[reghakr]

If you "clean" install,. you'll need to re-install all your 3rd party applications.

Write down a list of programs that need re-installed,.

I hope you saved the zip files to re-install..

A small price to play,. and this will reduce conflicts

You need to copy your Documents,. Pictures,. nu sic,. contacts,. videos,. etc to a flash drive

 

[tryon]

Yeha I know what a clean install means guys, I've been studying CS for more than 5 years now... I just wished to know if between 2 versions of windows this was ok, cause I never do/recommend "upgrade" otherwise I was just wondering about this particular case because it's the same basic os, but thx anyway...

 

[reghakr]

Truthfully I've seen many posts whee it fails and they can't get the files restored.

IMHO,. I would recomend not using it.

 

[Saltgrass]

What the heck, use Windows backup and restore to backup an image or your current setup, then do the in-place upgrade. I am not sure how the licenses work for the msdn thing, or whether you are using upgrade or full versions of the install DVDs, which might effect prior licenses.

 

[reghakr]

HP's come with so much junk,. it's unbelievable.

Go yo Start > run,. an type msconfig,. click the Startup tab and uncheck everything expect for you anti-virus software,. spyware detecter ,. and personal firewalll if you have one,.'

If Norton was pre-installed,. get rid of It using RevoUinstaller:
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[tryon]

yeha the ultimate version they gave us is full copy (worth 200$ ^^)

I could do af ull "backup" and restore from it (I have daily and weekly full-backup cycle anyway)... but I hate reinstalling and patching games :S (steam's great, but not all my games are on it !)

 

[reghakr]

I thought you were referingr to HP games.

Are you saying you got a full version of Norton or a full version of Windows 7?

 

[ickymay]

yeha the ultimate version they gave us is full copy (worth 200$ ^^)

I could do af ull "backup" and restore from it (I have daily and weekly full-backup cycle anyway)... but I hate reinstalling and patching games :S (steam's great, but not all my games are on it !)

why don't you put all your games onto a separate partition then all you need do is refresh the links to them

I have Steam , Mir 2 , WOW , Entropia Universe on their own partition, which is 38 gig of installs that I haven't had to reinstall at all over the past 14 months, while I was doing repeated reinstalls of windows 7 during beta testing

I honestly don't know if you would get any issues installing ultimate over pro but I reckon that could take as long as a fresh install which is now only 30-40 mins with windows 7 on most decent hardware

 

[tryon]

most of my games that aren't on steam need some registry entry for the cdkey and all ... it's a pain in the ass to retrieve those entries, export and import them again, maybe you have some tricks I don't know about ... but I aknowledge the fact that more and more games are "portable" and they should all be like that (everything is already on my other partitions, I never install or put anythigng on C if I can (all microsoft's product like office, visual studio and such force us to though))