Windows 7 Professional Upgrade Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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so today I have an unboxing that is actually a leadin into something more
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interesting okay so I have a copy of Windows 7 Professional this is a retail
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copy it is an upgrade designed for
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Windows Vista to be upgraded but it says right on the side all the additions of
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Windows XP and Windows Vista qualify you
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to upgrade you must accept the enclosed license terms it's got some system
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requirements all that good stuff so let's get this thing open and the reason
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I'm opening this is because I want to test if you can install an upgrade copy
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of Windows 7 without actually having
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another operating system already installed and no one seems to know yet
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whether you have to actually install Windows Vista or whether you just need
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to put in your product key when you're installing Windows 7 so you slide the
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retail box out of the uh the little slip here which also shows you all the
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differences between the different editions of Windows 7 so Home Premium
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professional ultimate with professional you get run many Windows XP okay you get
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Windows XP Mode you get support for a domain and you can recover your data
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easily with automatic backup to your Homer business Network then with
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ultimate you get bit Locker encryption and you also get your choice of 35
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languages okay there we go so then we have a little uh seal on the top which
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is made in Puerto Rico okay we've got our Windows 7 Logo there Microsoft okay
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it's fairly fairly bog standard I would say so let's rip that baby open all
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right here you go if you are upgrading from Windows XP run the Windows upgrade
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advisor save your files to an external hard drive you will need to manually
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reinstall your programs and you want to select custom Advance this to me
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indicates that there's a pretty good chance that we can just install the
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upgrade fresh because they're telling you if you are installing from Windows
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XP you will need to completely reformat your computer okay so that's a that's a
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that's a good indicator all right then welcome to your PC simplified this is
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the little uh sure about Windows 7 some
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of the key new features all that good stuff there's your product key and then
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there are two Windows 7 discs one with
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32-bit software and the other with 64-bit software thank you for checking
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out my video blog on my Windows 7 Professional upgrade unboxing