It will delete your documents, but things in your harddrives will stay there and things from your program files will be put in a "windows.old" folder. At least that's what it did for me.
No.
EDIT: I did it on my sisters computer and everything stayed the exact same. Icons on her desktop were intact, she did need to pick a new picture for her desktop background though. She has a Toshiba btw, perhaps different manufacturers have different procedures (I know the installation program had "Toshiba" printed all over the place)
Only if you format the HDD.
Stenstyren, you probably just upgraded and didn't do a clean install.
It depends if you are switching from XP or Vista.
[QUOTE=Crit-Sandvich;21018570]It depends if you are switching from XP or Vista.[/QUOTE]
No it doesn't.
If you switch from vista you can upgrade.
You can do clean install from both. All the stuff will be in windows.old.
I was kinda able to bypass it by installing W7 in a different HD. Only downside is a lot of shit won't work unless its in the HD W7 is in.
[QUOTE=nick10510;21019819]Only downside is a lot of shit won't work unless its in the HD W7 is in.[/QUOTE]
wonder why
also you bypassed nothing
[QUOTE=DOG-GY;21027351]also you bypassed nothing[/QUOTE]
:lol:
[QUOTE=DOG-GY;21027351]wonder why
also you bypassed nothing[/QUOTE]A lot of people who ask computer questions on the internet lack the vocabulary to correctly describe the situation. By using a second HDD, nick was able to perform a clean install of Windows 7 on the new HDD without the fear of losing all of his documents on the second HDD, therefore [b]bypass[/b]ing a situation which may frustrate or confuse some users who have only performed a handful of Windows installs/upgrades.
But to answer the OP, if you have an external Hard Drive or a USB Flash Drive, I'd recommend backing up your most important pictures, documents, and other files before you try switching to Windows 7. Depending on what you select when going through the install process, all of your data can be deleted. However, an in-place upgrade will put all of your files in a directory called Windows.old where you can go through the Documents and Settings (or Users if you're on Vista) folder and pull out all of your information that was stored in your User Account. It's very likely that programs located in Program Files will not work unless you are able to perform an Upgrade (Not to be confused with in-place upgrade) because while the program may have all of it's associated files, it may be missing information from the system registry or system files that were installed to allow the program to run correctly. You should redownload these programs from the internet to install them correctly or use a disk if you have one. However, if this is done correctly all of the files you've created in that program (like MS Word documents) will still have all data and should be accessible once the program is installed.
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