Comments on: Windows 7 Upgrade experience – A tale of woe http://www.geeksrus.com/2009/10/22/windows-7-upgrade-experience-a-tale-of-woe/ We're geeky so you don't have to be Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:39:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: roger http://www.geeksrus.com/2009/10/22/windows-7-upgrade-experience-a-tale-of-woe/comment-page-1/#comment-3598 roger Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:45:59 +0000 http://www.geeksrus.com/?p=1574#comment-3598 <p>Most Windows users have XP and there isn't a "direct path" from XP to 7. Yummy.</p> <p>If you are buying a new PC with 7 preinstalled, cool. Upgrading your current XP PC to 7, haul out the Excedrin.</p> Most Windows users have XP and there isn’t a “direct path” from XP to 7. Yummy.

If you are buying a new PC with 7 preinstalled, cool. Upgrading your current XP PC to 7, haul out the Excedrin.

]]> By: Michael Stern http://www.geeksrus.com/2009/10/22/windows-7-upgrade-experience-a-tale-of-woe/comment-page-1/#comment-3586 Michael Stern Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:45:30 +0000 http://www.geeksrus.com/?p=1574#comment-3586 <p>The 'install without a product key, then install again as an upgrade' is also how Vista worked. I had to use it to upgrade a Windows 2000 installation. I posted to a windows-oriented technical about about how counterintuitive and silly the process had been and got BLASTED by some windows gurus because it should have been OBVIOUS to do it this way and anyway once it worked it was STUPID of me to suggest that any alternative solution would have been better when the problem was only my own inability to follow directions.</p> <p>Sure.</p> The ‘install without a product key, then install again as an upgrade’ is also how Vista worked. I had to use it to upgrade a Windows 2000 installation. I posted to a windows-oriented technical about about how counterintuitive and silly the process had been and got BLASTED by some windows gurus because it should have been OBVIOUS to do it this way and anyway once it worked it was STUPID of me to suggest that any alternative solution would have been better when the problem was only my own inability to follow directions.

Sure.

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