Thread: Windows 7 upgrade

To introduce the retail edition of Windows 7, Microsoft has one for students ready particular upgrade offer . Owners can buy a edition of Windows XP or Windows Vista to upgrade to a retail edition of Windows 7 Home Premium or Professional, present in the 32 - or 64-bit edition. That this is a download version, should not interfere with most users, especially since the order even one DVD.






When the download is - to the chagrin of many unsuspecting buyers - but not an ISO image that you can burn them to DVD, instead, the customer will receive a download manager that will download three files in total, one of them an EXE. This unzipped the three files into a folder named expandedSetup, basically all the files in a Windows-7-disk and contains the operating system is to start upgrade routine.


Problems can now give, for instance, if you require to switch from an existing 32-bit Windows to a 64-bit edition: the upgrade process does not begin, still a fresh set up minus an set up operating system is the first upgrade package is not potential. But with the right software and a matching guide, on the side of the Windows seven forums will be described in English, can be created from the downloaded files in a few minutes a bootable DVD.


Installation on a blank or previously self-formatted hard drive with the so-created DVD possible, an activation of Windows 7, according to some reports on the Internet with the license key, however, then by pointing out that this applies only to an upgrade not feasible. Precaution should therefore continue to install an installation of Windows XP or Vista on the hard drive, even if this is for the installation even more irrelevant a method, as this can be avoided, can be found on the next page.