On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18
7:27 -0400, SC Tom wrote:
>"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
>news:iie2q556k2ht4l7g6p14vk157ua5d8dpss@4ax.com...
>> 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.
>
>I've been putting off upgrading from XP to Win7 for that very reason. I've
>had XP on this PC since XP was released to the public, and I've installed a
>lot of programs since then. Granted, a lot of them are not used much, if at
>all, any more, but there are a number of ones I do use that I don't have the
>installation files for, and probably not the registration codes either.
See my comments following: D
Archives, D
Attic.
>They're all legal, but with moving/cleaning/getting rid of old stuff, I just
>don't have everything that I bought over the years.
>Aside from the fact that I don't have a Vista install disk or another Win7
>one, and I really don't want to put out the bucks to upgrade an OS I'm
>perfectly happy with. I guess sometime between now and 2014 I'll have to do
>something
I went from Win XP to Win 7 by formatting my C: drive and installing Win 7,
but it wasn't too painful for me.
My hard drive is partitioned into C: D: E: drives, I install the operating
system to C: but most other programs I use are installed to D: drive.
I have a large Music library which is stored on E: drive.
To put it another way:
1. If it doesn't need backing up it's installed on C: drive.
2. If it needs backing up it's installed on D: drive.
3. Music needs backing up so it's stored on E: drive.
That reduces the amount of configuration that needs to be done after the
reinstallation of the operating system. Agent, Eudora, Opera and many other
programs don't always need to be reinstalled, sometimes you can just create
a new shortcut that when you click in it the program fires up.
"My Documents" doesn't exist on my computer by that name, but a large
amount of documents are saved at D
Archives.
I vaguely recollect a C
"download folder" but my downloads automatically
go to D
Attic.
--
Terry Heinz.