My Windows 7 is collapsing, thinking about upgrading to Windows 10
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Alright, I'm going to tell quite the story, TL;DR at the end.
So here's the deal, when everything began I bought an HP PC that had Windows 7 Home Premium on a fairly mediocre PC, AMD Athlon all that jazz, one day in christmas 2012 I decided to change most of the components (PSU, CPU, MOBO, GPU, RAM), pretty much keeping the case and the HDD. Complications arose because of this, my Windows couldn't start anymore and after some digging, reformatting and reinstalling was the only solution.
So I reformatted and reinstalled the whole everything, while also backing up some stuff. Now you see, i'll admit it, it said my Windows 7 wasn't activated, so since what I just did was replacing components and that Windows 7 failed me, I figured it was okay to download this one program to activate my Windows 7 Home Premium, so I did and everything went smoothly.
Now jump in time to today, my dad decides to have a laugh at fixin' the printer, he downloaded some kind of program named "HP Doctor" and ran it, when it was finished it restarted the PC, only to find out that it wouldn't reboot at all, it would get stuck at "CLASSPNP.sys", I ran the system repair tool, it instantly fixed it except that there was one problem, this one program that keeps Windows 7 activated broke because of "HP Doctor", now it was half-working, so I thought that it was time that I should maybe reactivate it, so I disable it and it dooms my PC for a moment, it wouldn't boot at all, still same error "CLASSPNP.sys", by miracle I manage to boot it again, now I am scared, I try out of denial to reactivate RemoveWAT and it messes up again, luckily Windows saves me by putting a backup point right before activating RemoveWAT, after the restore it still doesn't boot, and by miracle it boots and now I am scared to run any program that activates my Windows 7 at all, so I decided to consider upgrading to Windows 10 today.
My Windows 7 is now considered clean-ish and it tells me to activate Windows 7. I am backing-up important files as of now.
TL;DR My Windows 7 is collapsing because some program broke my Windows activation program and my entire Windows (Which do not worry is fairly legal in this manner as it happens on the same very PC that had a genuine Windows version) and i'm considering upgrading to Windows 10 to fix all of this.
Now I have a few questions:
- Will the Windows 10 upgrade program allow me to upgrade fully? (Considering I used this one activation program, that failed, and now i'm pretty much in "trial mode" kinda deal but not really)
- Will my data be safe? (Pretty much everything inside my user folder)
- Will my programs & games be safe? (Both that are in and out of Program Files (x86) & similar, pretty much also "is my regedit data safe?")
- Will my drivers be safe? (I have this one audio driver for my card that works really well, but it's not really official)
I hold my data & programs very dearly and it would be a shame to lose it all because of some printer problem.
Yes
You have an option to only upgrade the OS (But a full wipe and refresh is recommended)
I used an unofficial driver for my sound card before it died and it was working fine.
Do you have a large external drive / secondary hard drive for backups?
Yes I am backing up the important stuff just in case.
I'm thinking about upgrading only the OS.
[editline]16th July 2016[/editline]
Okay it is a matter of utmost urgency now.
I tried launching the upgrade but it tells me I can't because I don't have Windows activated.
I booted up today by miracle, I'd like to avoid reboots as much as I can, what do I do?
Can you go into safe mode and remove the HP doctor?
Well, I managed to upgrade to Windows 10, everything works nicely now, there are still a few problems there and there but that's because of the upgrade and they are easy fixes.
Also FYI, the "HP Doctor" program was a one time thing, it didn't install anywhere it's just something you run to fix your HP printer except that it fucked up for some reason.
Thanks for all your help! Thread closed.
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