Windows 7 User Submissions

WINDOWS XP TO WINDOWS 7 "UPGRADE" - A ROYAL HASSLE!

by Carl Johnson
(Tampa, Florida, USA)

So far, I have found the upgrade from XP to 7 to be an extremely time consuming task, designed for the computer literate only.

The average user who has a smooth operating XP system is much better off NOT attempting a 7 "upgrade".

And the Windows Easy Transfer application does not facilitate the upgrade process.

From what I can figure from my experience, it just copies and compresses the old XP app (to data stick) and pastes it to the new 7 partition.

The user still has to install the app in 7 prior to paste (to insure drivers and registry entries are in place, I guess) and hope that user settings are maintained.

This can be done just as easy with a copy and paste operation to a data stick (without compression), so I don't quite understand the smoking mirrors of Easy Transfer (maybe it’s the compression factor).

It is ridiculous for Microsoft NOT to have included an XP upgrade engine in Windows 7, especially considering all of us users who still use XP (and chose not to upgrade to the Vista flop).

The only way I would encourage a novice XP user to upgrade to 7 is if he/she wants to do a clean slate upgrade-install (where the word "upgrade" only refers to the price of the product and NOT the result of the installation).

Maybe if enough XP users don't upgrade because of the ridiculousness of this "upgrade", Microsoft will get the message for its third operating system release post XP.

I, as one longtime Windows user, am only upgrading one of the three computers I maintain simply because of the tedious, extremely time consuming effort I am presently experiencing converting from XP SP3 to 7 RC.

My other two computers will run XP until they die or until Microsoft gets the true meaning of “UPGRADE”!