Microsoft: Windows 7 upgrade can take nearly a day

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    Microsoft: Windows 7 upgrade can take nearly a day


    Posted: 11 Sep 2009
    While developing Windows 7, Microsoft ran a ton of different performance tests to make sure the operating system was an improvement over its predecessors. One of the tests focused on upgrade performance: Microsoft wanted to make sure that an upgrade from Vista SP1 to Windows 7 was within a five percent threshold faster than an upgrade from Vista SP1 to Vista SP1. Microsoft gave three reasons for using the Vista SP1 to Vista SP1 upgrade as a baseline instead of Windows XP to Vista:
    Full Story: Microsoft: Windows 7 upgrade can take nearly a day - Ars Technica
    Posted By: 7Dreams
    11 Sep 2009



  1. Posts : 146
    Windows 7 Professional (64bit)
       #1

    Well that's pretty ugly. I was thinking of performing an upgrade the wife's laptop, now I may want to rethink that.

    gs
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  2. Posts : 28,845
    Win 8 Release candidate 8400
       #2

    Twenty hours and 22 minutes for a heavy user upgrade on medium hardware. I wonder how many MS testers commited suicide

    Nice post 7dreams thanks


    Ken
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  3. Posts : 289
    Windows 7 7100 build
       #3

    That is scary.

    No one is going to want to wait that long.
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  4. Posts : 5,807
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64 - Mac OS X 10.6.4 x64
       #4

    I would hope someone with THAT much data would have it on a separate partition while having the OS on its on drive
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  5. Posts : 419
    Windows 7 Build 7600 64bit/Ubuntu/Leopard
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Yeah Mine Took 2 Hours, with only 20gb.
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  6. Posts : 4
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #6

    Wow... o_O all day ay
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  7. Posts : 1,360
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #7

    Clean install for the win!
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  8. Posts : 1,326
    Windows 10 Professional 64-bit
       #8

    Zen00 said:
    Clean install for the win!
    I can't agree more than that!

    Zidane24 said:
    I would hope someone with THAT much data would have it on a separate partition while having the OS on its on drive
    In fact, If I would have a 1.5TB hard drive and one of them, I would have all my data on it. Then, I would say "OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGG how will I update?!" But, If I wanted it, I would be in that category. But that's not the case and there's actually much more data on my hard drives than on Microsoft's tests. Like ~700GB.

    And, yes, I'm keeping most of my files on my different hard drives. For various, obvious reasons :

    1. Data security.
    2. If there's a problem with the OS, a quick copy of the User folder on an other folder and we are ready to go.
    3. OS upgrade time
    4. No more huge quantity of DVDs
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  9. Posts : 4,925
    Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
       #9

    I always prefer clean install for a new version of windows to make it as close to how MS intended it to run as possible. If you have bits from previous versions in the new install, it must affect it in some way.
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