It has been awhile since I have had the time to write something. A lot has happened... Ubuntu 9.10 was released as well as Windows 7. I have installed Edubuntu 9.10 and was impressed at the bootup as well as shutdown time. The look is clean and Edubuntu has the additional software for kids.

But this article is about Windows 7 Pro. I received a Vista Business to Windows 7 Pro upgrade CD and found the time to install it. Well, there wasn't much to it. I booted up on the CD and told it I want a fresh install, and selected the partition that I wanted to install to. It put my existing Windows XP installation as well as the old Documents and Settings into a folder titled Windows.old. That was pretty much it. I must have missed the part where I could repartition the hard drive... The system rebooted a couple of times and prompted me to enter my Key Code. It didn't even ask for my Vista CD.

I opened up the Windows.OLD folder and found my profile and copied my files into my new Documents and Pictures folders.

Whoa.... my display just went wacko... oh a little popup saying an update was just performed, on my display chipset. odd....

Pretty uneventful... For now it will be the only OS on this machine.

Tags: ubuntu, vista, windows 7