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Clean install with Windows 7 upgrade media.

Why should anyone buy the full install version when they can do a clean install with the upgrade
version?

Can you use a Windows 7 Upgrade version to perform a clean install of the OS?
Yes. You can perform a clean install of Windows 7 with the Upgrade media, as you could with
Windows Vista.

The second common question regards "upgrading" from Windows Vista or XP (32-bit) to a 64-bit
version of Windows 7. (You cannot do an in-place upgrade between 32-bit and 64-bit versions of
Windows.)

Note: For the best experience possible I suggest you nuke your existing install and start fresh.

If you purchase a upgrade edition of Windows 7, can you also use it to perform a clean
installation of the operating system on a PC that doesn’t currently have Windows installed?

If you qualify for an upgrade license you can use any number of workarounds to install the
operating system legally. If you don’t qualify for an upgrade license, then those same workarounds
can technically work
also. Will you get away with it? Probably.

If you're upgrading from any previous version of Windows, you'll have this all-important choice,
although the Upgrade option will only be available if you're moving from Vista. If your machine
has never had Windows installed on it before, you won't have either choice—just go ahead and
choose Install.

Choosing Custom gives you a lot of options not available from Upgrade, like formatting and
partitioning your hard disk. This type of "clean" install is actually recommended if you can live
with having to reinstall your apps—your system will run without any of the junk it's accumulated
over the course of program installations. One final note about this choice: You must start up from
the installer disc; you cannot run the installer from within Windows for this type of installation
to work.


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