Laptop Upgrade Question

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  1. ABM

    ABM Happily Married In Music City, USA!

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    It's been a long, long time since I've had to upgrade a laptop as I've always relied on work it folks to do it.

    Anyway, I'll be upgrading my laptop from Vista to Windows 7. This is probably a stupid question, but will I have to re-load all of my various application programs such as Office, etc.? I may have a hard time locating some of them. Is there a way to copy the programs prior to upgrading?
     
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    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    Windows 7 comes with a migration tool that should copy your stuff from windows xp to windows 7

    google for it
     
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    Eastoff But it was a beginning.

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    In the past, you would need to do that. Apparently you don't now ^^^
     
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    I own a Mac, so I have no idea what any of you are talking about!
     
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    Eastoff But it was a beginning.

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    operating systems. like going from OS X to Jaguar.
     
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    True enough. Just finished downloading W7 with no problems. I ran a (Microsoft) compatibility test beforehand which recommended that I uninstall iTunes and AVG virus protection prior to installing W7. However, it was easy enough to re-installed them following the upgrade.

    Thanks!
     
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    When I upgraded, everything went fairly well except that I permanently lose IE. It's no big deal as I now use Mozilla, but still I'm not a fan of either Vista or 7.
     
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    That doesn't make much sense.
     
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    Buy a Mac!
     
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