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It also has a nice, but subtle, customize link under each name you should click on.

You can upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7, but not from XP to 7.

Some folks who apparently have a pile of operating systems discs have proposed that one could upgrade from XP to Vista, then from Vista to Windows 7, but I think thats insane.

Most PC experts will recommend you start fresh and pave your machine anyway.

I think this is a hassle, but in the case of XP to 7, its necessary.

I was asked to upgrade a relatives machine from Windows XP to Windows 7, so I figured this was a good time to write-up the experience in case it helps others.

This is a screenshot heavy post, so bear with me, this is a tale best told with pictures.

Disclaimer: I do work for Microsoft, but I dont work with the Win7 team so this is just one dudes opinion.

If this walkthrough paralyzes your hamster or causes you any emotional distress, we never spoke and I dont know you.

You found it on the intertubes for free, so what do you expect.

Good luck. My relative has a nice basic Dell desktop with a gig of RAM and a 100 gig HD.

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The machine is 3-4 years old, so I didnt think a Windows 7 install would be unreasonable.

First, I put my Windows 7 disc into the Windows XP machine and got this screen: Personally, I wish that there was a migrate your settings from Windows XP button or something on this page.

The problem here, and with most OS installs regardless of vendor is that, at some point, reading and comprehension is required.

Unless youre lucky enough to just click next, next, next, finish, you need to read.

The instructions that show up at this point (shown at right) have a section on Upgrading from Windows XP.

In that section theres a link to which is the one-stop-shopping center for Upgrade Info.

Specifically, the section on Upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 is what I needed.

Windows Er 3.1 Xp .Exe They Probably

The Windows Easy Transfer application is on the Windows 7 DVD in: CDDRIVE:supportmigwizmigsetup.exe They probably named it migsetup.exe to make sure it wasnt named setup.exe and save some trouble with confused folks, but still, it was a smidge counter-intuitive.

Ive never see an Easy Transfer cable in the real world, but apparently they do exist on Amazon.

Fortunately I had a small external hard drive, so I just used that since both the old and new computer were the same machine.

I was then asked this very tricky question, for which there is only one answer.;) Why yes, Windows Easy Transfer, this IS my old computer.

Next it found the 3 accounts on this XP machine as well as Shared Items and started tallying them up.

It spends some time (15 minutes or so in my case) estimating just how much non-Program data is on the machine.

In our case, it was about 15 gigs of Photos and general crap.

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