{"id":537,"date":"2009-05-09T08:48:23","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T08:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2009\/05\/09\/upgrading-to-windows-7.aspx"},"modified":"2009-05-09T08:48:23","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T08:48:23","slug":"upgrading-to-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=537","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading to Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Historically, I&#8217;ve cautioned Windows users against upgrading from one version of the OS to another, because the result is often a crufty, Frankenstein-esque install that doesn&#8217;t run as fast or reliably as a clean install. With Windows 7, however, I&#8217;ve been forced to reevaluate this advice. <\/p>\n<p>In the process of documenting the various ways in which one can install and upgrade to Windows 7 for the forthcoming book, Windows 7 Secrets, I&#8217;ve discovered that the upgrade process appears to work a lot more smoothly than it did in previous versions. Now, I&#8217;m not ready for a blanket reversal of my previous advice. But I&#8217;ve now upgraded three heavily-used and constantly updated Windows Vista-based PCs, and one XP-based PC, to Windows 7 (in additional to numerous, less relevant virtual machine installs).<\/p>\n<p>Full Article &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/win7\/win7_upgrade.asp\" href=\"http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/win7\/win7_upgrade.asp\">http:\/\/www.winsupersite.com\/win7\/win7_upgrade.asp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historically, I&#8217;ve cautioned Windows users against upgrading from one version of the OS to another, because the result is often a crufty, Frankenstein-esque install that doesn&#8217;t run as fast or reliably as a clean install. With Windows 7, however, I&#8217;ve been forced to reevaluate this advice. In the process of documenting the various ways in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}