Comments on: Upgrade To Windows 7 Might Take 20+ Hours (Worst Case)

By: lulzdude

lulzdude — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:21:30 +0000

lol is all i have to say. why would you ever do an upgrade, its best is you have one drive to do 2 partitions, one you os and the other your data. and if you hate having to reinstall just image you install with all your apps so you can restore your stuff quickly if something goes wrong

By: Gnice

Gnice — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:57:01 +0000

A clean install of a Win7 guest OS via Virtualbox took about 12 minutes on my fedora box with a quad 2,6ghz Phenom with 4gb Ram.
People need to stop bitching about their 6 year old POS store bought systems having poor performance with a modern OS.

I don’t see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang showing up at the Indy 500 – Upgrade your shit or stick with WinME.

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Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:42:11 +0000

[...] 80% of PC users are still using Windows XP and upgrading from XP to Windows 7 is a arduous and punishing [...]

By: Mayank Agarwal

Mayank Agarwal — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:39:37 +0000

Perfectly put Allan. For clean install it is quite smooth even on a low end h/w.. But if you are upgrading it with things still inside you harddisk then… ummm u might have to spend way tooo longer than usual.

By: Cloud

Cloud — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:20:36 +0000

It is always good to do a clean install than upgrading. I dual booted my Inspiron 1525 with Vista and 7 and most software I use in 7 are from the Vista Porgram Files folder…

By: Rajiv

Rajiv — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:49:45 +0000

@Allan

Clean install with no apps is perfectly fine , lets consider this case when 50 apps r running on ur pc and u wanna update win7 in the same drive then hw much time it takes that is the point here…. i m pretty possessive about my apps and would never like to reinstall them one by one just for the sake of OS upgrade…. it will be a hectic job dude …

By: Nadeem Mardini

Nadeem Mardini — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:05:36 +0000

Give me a break! "Upgrade To Windows 7 Might Take 20+ Hours (Worst Case)" http://bit.ly/a9LEG

By: Allan

Allan — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:32:56 +0000

I am currently using a HP TC1100 tablet laptop with 800mhz Celeron CPU, 1.2GB RAM, 80GB HDD. I partitioned the HDD into 2 with the C drive loading Windows XP Tablet edition and D drive loading Windows 7 RTM version. I did a full, clean install of Win7 on the D drive and it took me about 45 minutes. The install was smooth and uneventful.

Note that because this tablet is a very old model – I’ve been using it for 5 years now – and HP has stopped development work on it, I don’t have some of the drivers – specifically the built-in sound card. When booting up on Win7, there have been occasions when it would stall – this usually happens if the soundcard drivers are active (I think the new drivers that Windows automatically installed are the culprit). Otherwise everything including the pen input features are running smoothly. I’ve installed a free office suite software and FireFox 3.5 to test the OS. Works fine with me.