This is part 3 of a series on upgrading windows.Link to part 2 is here and and link for part 1 is here.In conclusion, let me summarize.The tools you need are:First, a genuine upgrade DVD from Microsoft or the manufacturer of your laptop/desktop. It was Dell in my case. I also assume that your pc has a dvd rom or you can manage to connect one to your pc. I do not support any kind of non-genuine windows operating systems that some claim to provide for cheaper price. See this article for details on such scams or bad purchases.Second, time and pateince.
Month: October 2011
upgrading from vista to windows 7 home premium – part 2
Well, I ran into another problem after I did upgrade to windows 7 home premium: I needed more space to on the second partition of the 100gb hdd to accommodate all the updates needed for the os to run smoothly. I also installed visual studio 2010 on it which really takes a lot of hard disk space.
The first partition (which contained windows server 2008 hpc edition) had some extra space. So i needed to move some space about 10 gb from this partition to w7 partition. I researched for partition software and i came accross easeus. EaseUS helped a great deal to move about 10gb from first partition to the second. Now I have enough space in w7 to accommodate all windows updates (specially visual studio sp1) and workspace for normal functioning of the os.
upgrading from vista to windows 7 home premium
Here is the Upgrading from windows vista to windows 7 on wordpress.com to this article that i wrote on another of my blogs. Since it is my own article, I need not copy/paste it all over again here.
Windows keys for less???
Beware of websites that claim to sell microsoft windows keys for a very less prices!As I was doing some research today on an entirely unrelated subject(windows drivers for Holux GPS receiver), i came accross (probably, via google ads) a website called keyoem.com and wanted to buy one of those keys to upgrade my windows 7 home premium to business/ultimate. The price they had put on their site was less than $35.But, before I did do the purchase, I wanted to see if it was a scam. So i did a search on google with “windows key scam.” Lo and behold, i got several hits.These websites look genuine, and even have Microsoft partner logos on them.The first one was from technonsense.com. This is an article that i took time to read and it saved me $35.Here is a Maliscious websites offering cheap windows keys to the full article. Thanks to technonsense.com, who has done a great job with this regard.BisLinks.