Upgrading Windows Vista to Windows 7 - Beginning the actual upgrade

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Upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7

Friday October 23, 2009

With all the important housekeeping taken care of, we're now ready to begin the actual

upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7

. If you've followed along with this tutorial series and looked after all the backup, defragmenting and cleaning up, the process of

upgrading Windows Vista to Windows 7

will be a piece of cake. And who among us doesn't like cake?

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- In Windows Vista, put your Windows 7 disc in your DVD drive.

- Windows Vista should recognize it and will bring up a dialog window.

- Click Install Now.

- If the disk doesn't spin up by itself you can start it manually.

- Click Start and then Run.

- Type in X:\Setup.exe where X is the drive letter for the DVD drive your Windows 7 disc is in.

- Setup will copy temporary files.

- Then Setup will start.

- A dialog comes up and you're given the option to get updated files online, which is recommended.

- We recommend this also, but for the purpose of brevity we chose the other option in the tutorial.

- You can also check the box if you want to improve Windows Install. Click Next.

- Read the license agreement, check the box and click Next.

- Click Upgrade unless you want to do a clean install on this machine.

- You'll get a dialog telling you that Windows Vista Extras are no longer available. Click Next.

- Windows 7 now begins the process of copying files.

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