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TI Home 2010 & Windows 7

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I currently have Vista SP2.

When I install Win 7 (will most likely do a reformat of the drive and then a clean install) will there be a way to easily and more quickly transfer/copy Apps from a TI Home back up to Win 7?
Or should I do a (re) install of all my Apps and programs (like Office 2007, Eset security, Firefox, wireless adapter software- for connection to my home network, etc) ?

thx

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You will need to perform a complete re-install of all your programs if you go the clean install route.

If you try to restore a TI image you'll just get back Vista.

If you are making a files and folders backup, then that will restore your documents pictures etc, but W7 registry will have no knowledge of your applications and therefore most of them won't run.

One possibility is to perform a semi clean install of W7, which will preserve your Vista install as Vista.old, then install W7 and then use USMT from Microsoft to transfer all registry details to W7.

TI won't be able to help here, apart from making a full disk image before you start, so that if anything goes wrong, you can roll back to your system as it is now.

Thanks- thought as much (using the partial back up of folders versus an actual image)

Follow up though -
your comment on "perform a semi clean install of W7" are you referring to the Upgrade install? As I understand that that will create a Vista.old folder.

What do you mean by " and then use USMT from Microsoft to transfer all registry details to W7."
In other words, what is a USMT?

Ahh, thats why I have not heard of the USMT, I am not a IT person.

Oh and regarding "semi clean install" that is the same as "Upgrade"?

seth mootchnik wrote:

regarding "semi clean install" that is the same as "Upgrade"?

To my way of thinking no! :) An upgrade is over the top of your existing OS and a semi-clean (new term I'm copyrighting here and now) is one where W7 actually performs a clean install, in the same partition as XP/Vista, but backs the OS partition to a special folder.

A clean install wipes everything and starts from new.

Probably me being pedantic, but there you are. :)