Upgrading to Windows 7? Well our geek blog is here to give you some pointers.
As most of you know, Windows 7 was released today. And I’m sure you’ve seen the commercials telling you to throw your launch party. Well after reading this post, I’m confident that you’ll be excited enough with Windows 7 that you’ll want to throw more than one party. So here’s our geek blog’s recommendations for upgrading to Windows 7:
If you were dissatisfied with how clunky your machine ran when you used Vista, then DON’T SIMPLY UPGRADE. An upgrade installation won’t give you much improvement. In order to see the BIGGEST improvement in performance with Windows 7, my recommendation would be to run a clean install. Before doing so, you will obviously want to save all of your documents and other pertinent information on an external drive.
The installation process, if going through a clean install, is INCREDIBLY easy. You will only have to click 3 or 4 buttons, and then less than half an hour later, you should be ready to go! Assuming you are already connected to the internet, Windows Update should start downloading your important device drivers for you (at least it did for me). Based on what I’ve already experienced, you shouldn’t run into any of the driver problems you experienced with Vista, and I’m sure that you will find Windows 7 to be infinitely better than Vista, much as I did. I like to think of it as Vista as it should have been the first time.
And for those of you who aren’t convinced on the upgrade yet, check out these five reasons to upgrade.
So party on, Windows users. Your future is here.
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