Upgrade from XP Professional to Windows 7

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I would like to upgrade from XP Professional to Windows 7 Professional. Could someone give me a few basic steps of the process? I keep reading about "clean installs", "migration", and saving everything before upgrading. What specificly, must be saved...or should I not have skipped Vista all these years?


Your friend How-To-Geek has a step-by-step guide entitled Migrate XP to Windows 7 with Easy Transfer and a USB Drive available on HowToGeek.com.


Use the Migration Wizard (aka Windows Easy Transfer) that comes with the Windows 7 media. In the support\migwiz directory run migsetup.exe. This will help you transfer your files to an "External Hard Disk or USB drive".

Perform a clean installation of Windows 7 on your machine and then restore your data again running the same tool.

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