![]() ![]() So if you don't have any previously installed Windows on the machine, you will want to get yourself a full copy of Windows 7. Windows 7 upgrade disks can be used to do this clean installation and will recognize the previously installed version of Windows. The difference between an in-place upgrade and a "clean" installation, in this instance, means backing up one's data, installing Windows 7, restoring the data, and reinstalling all Windows programs. ![]() Only certain of these upgrades, however, can be done as a simple update-what Microsoft calls an "in-place upgrade." Users moving from Windows XP, switching from 32-bit to 64-bit versions, or moving from a higher-end version of Vista to a lower-end version of Windows 7 can use an upgrade disc but will have to do a more cumbersome upgrade, known as a custom, or "clean," installation. The upgrade version of Windows 7 (as opposed to the higher-price full version) lets one move from any properly licensed version of Windows XP or Windows Vista to Windows 7 on that same computer. ![]() My hope with this post is to help things simmer down as opposed to boiling over, but we'll see. There's a bit of a tempest in a teapot brewing over what one can and can't do with a Windows 7 upgrade disk. ![]()
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