Upgrading from Vista to 7

[mesimon]

is it possible to upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7? I looked on the website and there is plenty about upgrading from XP to 7 but nothing about going from Vista to 7. It is the latest version of shafting from Microsoft?

[DarkTower87]

You can upgrade from Vista to 7. You have to make sure that if your running 32 bit you upgrade to 32 bit 7 or 64 bit to 64 bit.

[mesimon]

well I'm running 64-bit, so no problems they are. To be honest I think any Vista user is entitled to a free Windows 7 upgrade. I have found a Windows Vista practically unfit for purpose. It seems to have settled down a bit now that I Have installed all of the updates, but the performance is not really that impressive. What will the differences between Vista and seven supposed to be? I have used Windows 7 and to me it looks just like Windows Vista but it works.

[BasketballJones]

Remember one thing about Vista. It got a lot of it's bad rep from MS lowering the Vista capable requirements to allow PC manufacturer's to dump off existing stock. As a mature OS it is not that much different than Windows 7.

I upgraded from Vista ultimate 64 sp2 to Windows 7 ultimate 64 sp1 not long ago. My benches on every major bench are very close and honestly I feel like I wasted my money. Windows 7 = What Vista sp3 should have been... I like 7 better, just not leaps and bounds better.

[Josie Wales]

From the very beginning Windows 7 was just a further development of the Vista. Microsoft simply took advantage of their customers complaints with Vista to create a better user experience. Windows 7 is Vista7. And I like Vista7. You will too.

[PommieB]

Didn't find much difference either, I had four years trouble free with Vista, can't say the same with win7. Lot of trouble with drivers.

[jbmcmillan]

I've had less trouble with drivers but I didn't mind Vista at all and the wife is still using it.

[PommieB]

I ended removing some of the win7 drivers and used Vista 64b drivers, never looked back.

[mesimon]

the performance and responsiveness is nothing to do with my PC it's a quad core with eight gigs of ram. I used seven on the same computer. The problem here is that Vista is just garbage trying to surf the Internet is like using a dial-up connection when I am on cable. Sometimes programs take awhile to react to my mouse click. If I try to open a program that needs administrative permissions that stupid little box takes an age to appear. Yes Windows 7 is no different from Windows Vista from what I saw in is just list that works. And I'm devastated that I should have to spend more money to make my system work. Microsoft should have been taken to the cleaners over Windows Vista.

This is what happened, I got so ****ed off with this stuff that I got a bootleg copy of seven, it works great and I never use my Vista again, so in my mind I had got what was owed to me and I had done Microsoft no wrong. But then the bootleg copy caught up with me and they disabled it. So I know exactly what performance of this same computer is with both Windows Vista and Windows 7. Windows Vista is the problem with The PC's performance, the problem is Microsoft's fault.so three years after buying Vista I have reinstalled it and I now have all the updates and still it is a piece of ****. Really I should kick up a fuss go to trading standards but that will get me know where after all this **** is not fit for purpose. But I guess as we live under the rule of Microsoft I best just take the easiest and cheapest option of an upgrade. I did genuinely try Linux but I had to give up because I found that with Linux I had to be a geek to understand it because that is the way they make Linux as they are up their own arses to.

[PommieB]

Everybody to is own, I had none of those problems, Vista worked well for me, obviously it didn't work for everybody, I bought win7 anyway and it also works well, once I sorted out the drivers. There was obviously a lot of hardware that didn't respond well with Vista, I guess you were unlucky, pay the money and move on.

[leekirlew]

hmm, i definately felt an increase in responsiveness going from a fairly fresh vista to windows 7. I have vista on my laptop (only a dual core pentium at 2.8 ghz) and the difference between that and my desktop is light and day. My wife also uses vista on her desktop and thats running a 955BE + 8gb ram, and again my desktop feels faster even before the ssd was installed

[PommieB]

I ran win 7 64b Ultimate a long side Vista 64b Ultimate in a dual boot situation on the same laptop, the differences were minimal, but win 7 was slightly better, that doesn't make Vista a pile of ****, I like both Vista and Win7 better than XP, I got win7 Ultimate on special or I wouldn't have bought it.

I built a number of computers with Vista as the os and nobody complained except about the differences between Vista and XP, some people liked the changes, other people didn't, me, I liked Vista from day 1, I also ran it in a dual boot situation with XP and I virtually stopped using XP completely. I'll probably do the same thing with Win8, if it proves to be an improvement, I'll use it.

[Mikebee21]

Man I hated Vista there was nothing good about it. It performed like crap and booted up really slow. Windows 7 is a thousand times better hands down. I remember running Win7 beta and I saw a whole new computer with bootup and all around performance. I can care less about benchmarks, they mean nothing to me. My benchmark is real world performance on day to day task and that is what Windows 7 gave me.