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Post by
Nazgren
I'm currently running WinXP SP2 and am contemplating going to Win7 soon. I just have a couple questions about the upgrade procedure and system performance after installation.
My HDD is partitioned into two drives - C: for the OS and various minor programs, and then E: for games an all major software. If C: is formatted for Win7, will I still have to reinstall all the programs that reside on E: since the registry will be wiped?
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Considering the following system specs, will I be able to see a noticeable increase in performance when upgrading to Win7?
Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe (nForce 570SLI chipset)
Athlon-64 X2 5200+ (2.6Ghz Dual-Core)
4GB PC2-6400 RAM
GeForce 8800GTS (640MB Vram, 550mhz core, 800mhz memory)
Any help would be very appreciated!
Post by
PessimiStick
Some will likely need to be reinstalled.
WoW is not one of them. It runs fine without registry keys.
Post by
vtecjunkie81
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Considering the following system specs, will I be able to see a noticeable increase in performance when upgrading to Win7?
Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe (nForce 570SLI chipset)
Athlon-64 X2 5200+ (2.6Ghz Dual-Core)
4GB PC2-6400 RAM
GeForce 8800GTS (640MB Vram, 550mhz core, 800mhz memory)
Any help would be very appreciated!
As far as in-game, you probably won't notice too much of a difference unless you're upgrading from 32-bit to 64-bit. This is due to the fact that with 64-bit you'll be accessing the full 4GB of RAM as opposed to only 3.2 with 32-bit. As far as all around PC performance, Windows 7 is faster in some regards, such as network transfer speeds and Hard Drive accessing. Personally, I have noticed a little more pep in my PC since upgrading. The OS loads faster and programs seem to open faster as well.
Post by
Sentrios
As far as in-game, you probably won't notice too much of a difference unless you're upgrading from 32-bit to 64-bit. This is due to the fact that with 64-bit you'll be accessing the full 4GB of RAM as opposed to only 3.2 with 32-bit. As far as all around PC performance, Windows 7 is faster in some regards, such as network transfer speeds and Hard Drive accessing. Personally, I have noticed a little more pep in my PC since upgrading. The OS loads faster and programs seem to open faster as well.
This.
Also Windows 7 boots way faster (than Vista) at least on my machine. ~15sec from the time I press enter on my password screen everything is ready and CPU is at 5% or so. Also it "feels lighter" on the desktop use. Can't really explain how but it's just my opinion.
Post by
Nazgren
I do plan on going to 64 bit, mostly because of all that unused RAM just sitting in my motherboard lol.
Should I go with the clean install though? I keep reading it's the best (only) way to do it but I'm just lazy and don't want to back up all the crap on my drives.
I do use alt+tab a lot and usually run Vent, winamp, chrome, and one or two other programs while I play. I suppose when you say the desktop "feels lighter" that it's quicker to switch between programs and they don't stutter for a few seconds when you do so?
Post by
Incendium
You can
ONLY
do a fresh install between 32-bit and 64-bit installs (and vice-versa). This is not unique to Windows, most operating systems will not let you upgrade between the two architectures without doing a fresh install.
Post by
Nazgren
You can
ONLY
do a fresh install between 32-bit and 64-bit installs (and vice-versa). This is not unique to Windows, most operating systems will not let you upgrade between the two architectures without doing a fresh install.
I'm a noob...I can't believe I didn't think of that, lol.
Well in that case, I found out that Win7 64-bit requires at least 20gb of space to install, and I stupidly made my C: partition only 10gb when I built this box. Could I install Win7 on the other partition without any trouble? It's got over 200gb of free space.
Post by
Wanderingfox
Just repartition the drive? Or do you mean you only have a 10gb hard drive in your system?
Post by
Incendium
I'm a noob...I can't believe I didn't think of that, lol.
Well in that case, I found out that Win7 64-bit requires at least 20gb of space to install, and I stupidly made my C: partition only 10gb when I built this box. Could I install Win7 on the other partition without any trouble? It's got over 200gb of free space.
Check out the
gparted LiveCD
, it will let you resize existing partitions. Just burn the ISO to a disk and restart. If you don't want to burn it to a CD, they also have an option for you to set it up as a bootable USB drive. Just make sure to back up all of your important data before you use this.
Post by
Nazgren
Gparted looks perfect...thanks!
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Post by
Incendium
You don't have to reinstall everything, only the programs that depend on data in the Windows registry (WoW is not one of them).
Post by
Wanderingfox
You don't have to reinstall everything, only the programs that depend on data in the Windows registry (WoW is not one of them).
More specifically, every time wow.exe is run, it will recreate the appropriate uninstall information in the registry if it's not already present :P
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