On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:23:07 -0400, "SC Tom" <sc@tom.net> wrote:
>
> "LD55ZRA" <LD55ZRA@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:hnpnf4$u03$1@speranza.aioe.org...
> > Clean install always takes less time than upgrade install and in Windows 7
> > this is crucial unless you want to spend whole weekend doing it.
> >
> > hth
>
> That's not necessarily true.
Right, it's hardly ever true.
> Took me 45 minutes to upgrade from Vista to
> Win7. I've done clean installs of Win2k and XP that took way longer than
> that since you have to consider that with a clean install, you have to
> reinstall all of your other programs after the OS installation.
Exactly! And not only do you have to reinstall them, in many cases you
also have to reconfigure them to the way you like them.
> Add that time up and it's a lot more than a simple upgrade.
*Much* longer. It depends on how many and what programs you have
installed, and to what extent you've configured them, but it can
easily take a few days. And unlike doing an upgrade installation,
which essentially runs by itself with almost no attention from you,
all the program installation and configuration requires your
attention.
My Windows 7 installation on my main desktop computer here would
easily take me 2-3 days to reinstall cleanly and put back the way it
is. And that's 2-3 days of pretty much constant attention.
> I haven't done an
> Xp-Vista-Win7 upgrade, but I can't imagine it being more than a leisurely
> evening to do if the installer has checked to make sure his hardware and
> software is compatible with both Vista and Win7.
I have. I did that with my netbook, more as an experiment than
anything else. Since I use it for e-mail while traveling and very
little else, I didn't really care very much what version of Windows it
was running. But because to do it I had to go to Vista, then SP1 of
Vista, then Windows 7, and it was done on a slow machine, it took the
better part of two days.
However, despite its taking two days, it mostly did what it did by
itself and took very little attention from me. So the two days really
didn't bother me at all. If I had done it by doing a clean
installation of Windows 7, it probably would have taken about the same
two days (that's about what it took when I first installed and
configured all the apps on it under Windows XP), but it would have
been two days that kept me very busy.
--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
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