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Question About Upgrading From Vista to Seven
Just want to ask for a little advice from the experts before I do this please.
I have an older Gateway with Intel Duo Core CPU 1.86 GHz; 4 GB of ram, currently running Vista Home Premium 32 bit. The MB is limited to 32 bit. It has a 360 GB SATA hard drive that is about half full, as well I have a 1TB SATA hard drive that I have never installed.
I would like to upgrade it to Windows 7 similar to what I run on an HP Laptop that is about a year and a half old. I have seen Windows 8 and I am not too crazy about it.
I also have loaded Office 2007 full version, as well as various other misc programs. I don't do any gaming. I do plenty of Excel stuff, Word, and Powerpoint, internet, email, etc.
I know I should back up all my files before I start any kind of upgrade.
I ran the W7 upgrade advisor a couple of days ago.
It came up with a couple of incompatibilities, mostly printer drivers that I don't use anymore anyway; and a couple of recommended upgrades; nothing that's a show stopper.
Is there a nice slick seamless way to upgrade to W7 that avoids having to re-install everything afterwards? Or am I faced with wiping the hard drive and starting clean?
Any advice or tips is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
rstew