Post by clarencebunsen on Nov 4, 2011 16:47:38 GMT -5
Does anyone here have experience upgrading from Vista to Win 7? The last operating system upgrade I did was one from Win 95 to Win 98.
That went without a bit of trouble. (Later my #1 son decided to reformat my hard drive & do a clean install. That made for a long & frustrating night.) On various forums I've read horror stories about Vista upgrade problems.
My wife has 2 portable computers which she uses when working from home or on the road. Both have an employer installed application (Citris Gateway) which allows access to the employer mainframe and intranet. One is a large laptop with Vista, the other a Win 7 netbook. For real work she prefers the laptop but uses the netbook for travel. I don't have access or authorization to do anything with Citrix. For our household these are mission critical applictions. I'm not going to tell her at 10PM that she needs to change from jammies to street clothes and go to work to retrieve a document.
The problem srarted when Citrix did an upgrade which locked her out of the server (while we were on the road of course). We we got back her IT dept. worked on both computers and told her that the netbook was fixed but that the Citrix update did not play well with Vista.
My dilemma: shopping today I found a new, discontinued Win 7 laptop for $200. An upgrade will cost me almost half that plus my time. If I have problems with the upgrade, I could be in serious trouble. Any comments?
That went without a bit of trouble. (Later my #1 son decided to reformat my hard drive & do a clean install. That made for a long & frustrating night.) On various forums I've read horror stories about Vista upgrade problems.
My wife has 2 portable computers which she uses when working from home or on the road. Both have an employer installed application (Citris Gateway) which allows access to the employer mainframe and intranet. One is a large laptop with Vista, the other a Win 7 netbook. For real work she prefers the laptop but uses the netbook for travel. I don't have access or authorization to do anything with Citrix. For our household these are mission critical applictions. I'm not going to tell her at 10PM that she needs to change from jammies to street clothes and go to work to retrieve a document.
The problem srarted when Citrix did an upgrade which locked her out of the server (while we were on the road of course). We we got back her IT dept. worked on both computers and told her that the netbook was fixed but that the Citrix update did not play well with Vista.
My dilemma: shopping today I found a new, discontinued Win 7 laptop for $200. An upgrade will cost me almost half that plus my time. If I have problems with the upgrade, I could be in serious trouble. Any comments?
