Windows 7: Upgrading to Windows 7 Starter

There is a netbook that has Vista home premium installed on it but I'm looking to upgrade it to windows 7. I've tried a demo version of 7 perfessional but it's just way to slow on it. Am I able to upgrade from Vista home premium to windows 7 starter?

I think this will answer most of your questions...

Upgrade Install with Windows 7

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Joe

If you were running Ultimate with disk encryption turned on and lots of services, I could see that Starter might be faster -- simply because it wouldn't be running so many services. But, can think of no reason why Windows 7 Started would be noticeably faster on your machine than Windows 7 Pro.

If you're asking about an in-place upgrade where your settings, files, and apps are all preserved -- no. You would have to do a clean-install "upgrade" which will effectively start you over from scratch.

I'll bet you got a bad install if Pro bogged your netbook but Vista doesn't.

Windows 7 runs much leaner than Vista, with better memory management and most services set on fast triggers. It really learns the lessons of Vista.

Suggest you try another install of Windows 7. If you want in-place Upgrade (less clean) then locate and try a copy of Windows 7 Home Premium or Ultimate. They will default to lower resource usage (e.g. no Aero) when installed to your netbook.

Vista did bogg it down actually. What I did was installed XP with all 3rd party drivers since XP wasn't supported. It ran great after that just not the most stable (especially with wireless). But oh well, sounds like I'm going back to XP