Chuck, If you purchase the Windows Anytime Upgrade for your current version of Vista to Vista Professional, then install the upgrade you purchased to Windows 7 Professional. This method should not affect the programs that are already installed.
It may be a more expensive resolution, but simpler. Here is a link: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/get/anytime-upgrade-overview. aspx Good luck! Arthur Johnston Meadowbrook, California USA -----Original Message----- From: delphi-boun...@elists.org [mailto:delphi-boun...@elists.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Belanger Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 9:06 AM To: Moderated List for the Discussion of Delphi Programming excluding Database-related topics Subject: Re: Way of moving Delphi and 3rd-party components over in a Win Vista to Win7 clean install? Thanks everyone for your excellent suggestions! I may go ahead and simply purchase PCMover Update Assistant at only $20 which should do the job for my entire installation. Or, I might not and just use the suggested steps for Delphi only, since my experience is to completely reinstall anew when changing OSs. It's going to come down to how much time I have. Hi, Markus: Turns out that the Vista to Win 7 upgrade can only work using the same level of Win7. I bought the Win7 Prof upgrade and was trying to upgrade my Vista Ultimate to that and it won't let me. I did not hear anything about that before purchase, just thinking that I would be downgrading to the Professional, but alas, the software stops from doing it. Chuck Belanger > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 20:28, Chuck Belanger <phytot...@lanset.com> wrote: > >> Hello: >> >> I am trying to upgrade from Vista to Win7 and ran right into a brick wall >> where I cannot upgrade Vista Ultimate to Win7 Prof without doing a clean >> install. That means that I have to completely reinstall Delphi (2007) which >> I really dread, because of all the third party component sets I use, some of >> which I needed to tweak so that they could properly load into Delphi. >> >> Is there a way of making this simpler? Would Windows Easy Transfer help this >> process? Some other way of moving my Delphi setup over less painfully? >> > > I've never done that, but maybe you can just restore the relevant > registry settings for Delphi -- if you don't change the path to your > components (src and bin). > > Out of curiosity: Why do you have to do a clean install? I used the > upgrade from Vista a few times and it worked fine. > > Regards, > Markus > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list > Delphi@elists.org > http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi > > _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list Delphi@elists.org http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list Delphi@elists.org http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi
