I really like the changes they made to MC in Win7. It just keeps getting better - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

I'm looking forward to trying it out. I'm hoping that it fixes a problem I was having with my XBox 360s not being able to connect to my Vista PC without rebooting the PC that's cropped up over the course of the past few months. Hoping that all works well. It looks like the upgrade's going to take a long time. It's been running for over an hour now and still is only on stage 2/5 and only 20% done with the "gathering files, settings and properties" stage. - Thomas Hawk

Oh you upgraded? I always wipe and do a fresh install. When I got my retail copy of W7 it took about 15 minutes to install the whole OS. I use MC with my XBOX360 all the time with no probs, hope it fixes yours! - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

yeah, maybe I should have done a fresh install. didn't want to have to reinstall all my software though. We'll see how it goes. - Thomas Hawk

You'll definitely want a fresh install of Windows 7. - Kol Tregaskes

hmm... 88% of the way through 2/5 now. I tried to nuke my windows Media Player library (the likely culprit for the upgrade taking a long time) prior to the upgrade but Vista wouldn't let me delete the file saying it was "in use." Figured I'd upgrade, then nuke it and reimport my music. - Thomas Hawk

Takes a while the upgrade but I did the upgrade rather than clean install from Vista to 7 with no issues and also resolved old niggling Vista issues, so hopefully will do the same for you. - Russell G

Yeah I have upgraded five Vista machined and clean installed six XP machines. No difference between performance afterwards, so I would say no probs upgrading. - Travis Koger from iPhone

the main reason why I upgraded was to hopefully fix the problems I had with my XBox 360s not being able to connect to my PC without a reboot every time. The upgrade's made it to step 3/5 now. Seems stuck on "expanding windows files (21%)" though. But I'm sure it just needs more time. - Thomas Hawk

A couple of my machines got stuck at the same point actually Thomas, just let it go it will stop again later, but it will get through. My average time for upgrading is around two hours. - Travis Koger from iPhone

Getting further. On step 5/5 now it looks like. "Transferring files, settings, and programs." 41% done of step 5. - Thomas Hawk

72% of step 5/5 is now done. Damn, this upgrade may end up bleeding into a second day. - Thomas Hawk

Is a clean install quicker? - Greg Guitarbuster

OK! It's installed, rebooting now. - Thomas Hawk

Had to reboot in safe mode to nuke my old WMP library. I'm going to start over with a smaller library in hopes that things go better for me this time around. Reimporting my music now. - Thomas Hawk

Congrats on the Win 7. It's a pleasure. However, do not try to play the Beatles Remastered CDs on it, the DRM prevents these from being played on Windows 7. Go figure. - Yaniv Golan

wow. totally blown away that my Mac was able to connect to my network after the upgrade the first time with no trouble. - Thomas Hawk