Upgrading Vista to Windows 7 - Defragmenting Vista before installing Windows 7

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Upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7

Thursday October 22, 2009

Upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7

will be much easier if you install to a defragmented hard drive. Defragmenting means pulling your data that's scattered across the physical drive into a logical and clean structure. Take the time to defragment your drive and your upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7 will be a smooth and simple process.

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- Now it's time to

defragment your drive

before doing the Windows 7 upgrade.

- We've backed up, cleaned up, and defragmenting is the last thing we need to do.

- You can use the built-in Disk Defragmenter that comes with Vista.

- Click on Start and then on All Programs.

- Click on Accessories, then on System Tools and then on Disk Defragmenter.

- Other defragmenting tools you can use include:

TuneUp Utilities 2009

Diskeeper

DiskRescue

- Once your hard disk is completely defragmented we're ready to begin our upgrade to Windows 7.

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