Windows 10 [Did you upgrade?]

[Naunet]

I'm still trying to decide if I want to just upgrade or do a clean install. There are some programs I have that I'm not sure I'd be able to get back if I do a clean install, as I can't find the dang product keys. >_<

[Bishop81]

I'm still trying to decide if I want to just upgrade or do a clean install. There are some programs I have that I'm not sure I'd be able to get back if I do a clean install, as I can't find the dang product keys. >_<

Although you see many complaints in this thread, overall I believe the upgrade is relatively smooth for most.

I have upgraded, in-place, 2 PCs. A part from minor issues starting the second one on the laptop, in which I forced the upgrade (turned out the installer is particular about your "locale"; setting it to English:United States fixes it), it has been smooth sailing.

Just do the upgrade. If you are unhappy with it, it's not too late to do a clean install. (Also defrag after the upgrade as no doubt it overwrites tons of files. So unless you are on an SSD, hard drive performance will suffer.)

[Monty]

I'm still trying to decide if I want to just upgrade or do a clean install. There are some programs I have that I'm not sure I'd be able to get back if I do a clean install, as I can't find the dang product keys. >_<

Honestly, I just did the upgrade straight up and everything's working fine. I just ran CCleaner afterwards and personally did a disk cleanup to get rid of windows 7 as I have no intention of going back to it (you can if you wish to though). That being said, my PC is a gaming machine and that's it. There's basically steam, XIV and a browser on here with a ton of games.