Upgrading to Windows 7 Pro

Photo46

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Apr 8, 2014
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Looking for a solution. I have a Dell D830 Latitude with Windows XP OS. This is my backup laptop so I have installed both license to all of my programs on two computers. In researching the process to upgrade to Windows 7 Professional, I see that I basically get a complete reset of the laptop and thus will need to reinstall the programs. This is not an option unless I want to spend a couple of thousands of dollars buying new programs.

Please provide some way around the reinstallation.

Thank you.
 

USAFRet

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There is no direct upgrade from XP to 7 Pro. They are too different. But why would you have to spend thousands buying them all again?

If you have 2 licenses for something, you're still only using 2 licenses. 1 is now on the new Windows 7 box instead of the XP box.