How to Get Windows 7 Installed and Running

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About one month ago now, Microsoft released its newest version of the Windows operation system. The newest installment is being hailed with great praise, as it is almost certainly what Vista should have been. If you’re curious to try the new and improved operating system on your machine or want to upgrade to the latest and greatest, this quick how-to guide will walk you through every step of the way from the upgrade disc to a new desktop window.

Your first challenge is to order a distribution disc for the installation. If you’re unfamiliar with all the Windows installations, they’re all almost exactly the same. They’re basically marketing ploys and if given the choice between the Home Premium, Business, or Ultimate, go with the Ultimate. It has everything they designed for the operating system and is fairly worry free.

If you are coming from a computer that already has Vista installed, you are lucky enough to be given an ‘upgrade’ option. The upgrade feature will allow you to boot your computer into Vista, place your Win7 installation disc in the tray and have it take care of the rest. If you stuck with XP or are coming from a completely different OS such as Linux or OS X, you will have to pop the disc into the tray and do a system restart to make the OS installation boot.

If the latter option in step 2 was the one you chose, you will sit through what seems to be an unbelievably long load time while you wait for the disc to start itself. But, once you’re in, everything is the same for both the ‘upgrade’ and the clean install. Once the installation loads you’ll be guided through a few screens where you’ll just press next. The only important screen that matters is the ‘upgrade’ or ‘custom’ install screen. Choosing upgrade will only work if you’re coming from a Vista machine. Custom will allow you to choose which hard drive or hard drive partition you want to install on. It’s very self-explanatory if you’re worrying about the complexity of it. Once you’ve sorted out what hard drive you want to install to, you’re ready to start the installation.

Depending on your machine’s power, you may wait anywhere between 30 minutes to a few hours for the installation to finish. Check back periodically to see if you’re made it to the next user-input step. The last, and easiest part of the installation is selecting a username and password, and setting up basic Internet connection settings. This part should take no more than 5 minutes to complete and if you have a direct connection to the Internet, the connection setup should take even less time. When all is said and done, Windows will finish loading and will bring you to your new desktop!

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