I know there are loads of posts on this, but I wanted to share my experience mainly\u00a0because\u00a0I was blown away by the ease of the upgrade and more importantly, how much free space it freed up for me.<\/p>\n
Now I know these days harddrive space is less of an issue with desktops which are easily upgraded, but my notebook only has a 100 gig drive and is pretty full. Not wanting to go the route of a clean install and being a bit fedup with a lukewarm Vista experience I decided the much touted upgrade route was the way to go. So knowing windows would need some space to do the\u00a0install,l I did some concerted house keeping and managed to free up about 27 gig of space.<\/p>\n
This\u00a0accomplished\u00a0I closed my eyes and plunged right into the upgrade process. Windows 7 did some thinking and asked me to uninstall some apps which it figured would\u00a0cause\u00a0some problems – fortunately they were all HP pre-installed apps which I had never\u00a0actually\u00a0used before. Once I had removed this it quitlely got on with its thing – not sure how long it took as after about 2 hours I when to bed.<\/p>\n
In the\u00a0morning\u00a0it was with some\u00a0interpretation\u00a0that I roused my notebook out of sleep mode -fortunately I was\u00a0greeted\u00a0with a nice\u00a0friendly\u00a0windows 7 desktop. Now the kicker – remember I stated out with 27 gig free after cleaning up as much space as I could (including using windows disk cleanup which deleted all temp files), well after the install I now have 37 gig free! Thats 10 gigs of extra space – what Vista was doing with that drive space makes the mind boggle – it certainly wasnt making it faster thats for sure!<\/p>\n
Hope you have as much luck as I did if you decide to take the plunge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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