Better To Upgrade Install Or Clean Install ?

Oct 23, 2009

I'm finding this decision quite hard to decide on and can't decide what to do. I am very picky about wasted space or unnecessary stuff on my hard drive, yet I'd rather not install everything all over again which will take about 20 hours or so.

My question is...if I do an upgrade-install, can I just delete everything in the Windows.old folder and have everything practically the same as a clean install? Or will there be still be some left over things from the hundreds of programs I've installed and uninstalled?

Edit: I've ran the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor and everything seems ok.

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I like the system, I like the speed. So I keep asking myself will it be better if I install again in a "clean install" way?

What's your opinion, what's better? And what you did?

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The new hard drive for Win 7 will be on SATA 0

I can't figure out what procedure to use so Win 7 Upgrade sees the old activated Vista to activate Win 7.

In short, I want a clean install via Win 7 upgrade media on a seperate hard drive.

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This seemed to be kosher as reported on many sites. I know people who did it and all was well. Their Vista PCs run fine, and are completely up to date with regards to SPs and updates.

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Remember that you need a valid qualifying previous version of Windows to use a Upgrade Windows 7 copy legally. Microsoft only made doing a clean install from a upgrade Windows 7 possible to make it more convenient so you do not have to reinstall both the old Windows version (ex: Vista) and upgrade to Windows 7 everytime you needed or wanted to reinstall.

If you do not have a valid qualifying previous version of Windows, then you are violating the terms of Microsoft's Windows 7 End User License Agreement and could get your product key number invalidated by Microsoft. Plus, it is considered illegal.

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