Differences between basic and ultimate

jfar said:

Your Welcome.

Sorry, Thanks! Dont mean to be rude. :)

waldie77 said:

Frostmourne said:

I would back up your settings and do a clean install.

Please explain precisely HOW and WHERE I should back up my settings. Once you start the clean install for Win 7 Ultimate, you lose control of the process. Windows will be installed on Drive c, and I would expect there to be an "Old Windows" entry in the new Windows directory. From that, one would have to fish out what he wished to re-use.
The idea of a clean install bothers me, in that it usually means everything before it is wiped out, including the registry.

Clean install eliminates all problems, cookies, viruses, files, everything. There will not be a old.windows dir, since its a clean install. You can choose on which drive you want to install the OS on. Backup files by copying them to an extrernal HDD, or an internal 2. one, or a diffirent partition on the disk, if youre not going to format the entire disk, but just the partition you had the OS on.

waldie77 said:

Hello Coolness. Can I preserve the Registry from the present system and then restore it, replacing the newly created registry?

Well havent tried that, but if you'd get it to work, that would be awesome

waldie77 said:

I don't want to experiment wityh something new and experimental. I am hoping that an expert here in the forum will tell me:
1. IF it can be done
2: how to do it.
My bottom line is to try to preserve the programs I already have running under Win 7 Home Premium, and then be able to run them under a clean install Win 7 Ultimate done with clean install.
Any help from anyone on this goal?

Well youre gonna have to install all of youre programs again, after a clean install. You cant keep the programs in the case of a clean install, only by upgrade.

Hello waldie77.


If you do a clean install you will have to reinstall all of your progs/apps.