I,  for some crazy reason,  decided to update from Vista to Windows 7.  Things are kinda slow so i guess I need to torcher myself.  Everything that could go wrong has.  I took a great computer and messed with it.  I should know better.
 
But....
 
As i crawl out this mess i noticed the performance between Vista and Windows 7 is HUGE!   Windows 7 is so much better it is UNREAL.  I worry I'm doing something wrong.  I take my biggest Orch libraries,  play everything I can and it puts so little strain on things.  
 
I should of done this way long ago, but with the help of someone who knows what is going on. 

 Windows 8 release date: October 26... ;)

Are all your programs Win 7 ready or have you updated all your programs toi support Win 7 in your PC, including your Mobo (Bios)

Win7 makes Vista look like a pile of puke.

So XP must be the chunks in the puke

Heck no. XP was the delicious becan cheeseburger that resulted in the ensuing pile of puke. ;-)

but I guess... even with my analogy that would be correct. u so smrt CJay. lol

To be fair you should have done a fresh install and wiped all traces of the crapola that was vista lol

Even if you have to do a fresh install of Vista and then the Win 7 upgrade, it still gets rid of Vista. Remember that IF Win 7 is indeed just an upgrade version,  you must have a valid full version of another win OS on the HD (that Win 7 accepts) before you install the Windows 7 upgrade. Otherwise it wont authorize. Unless they changed this since the last time I did it... In which case, nevermind... 

I did the upgrade from Vista 64 to Win 7 64 with no hassles at all.  I jumped in to the Vista party late, after service pack 2.  From my experience, Vista was excellent, the only reason I upgraded was for PT 10.  I didn't notice any performance difference, good or bad.

There is a a MS program that you can run before the upgrade, which will tell you if all of your drivers and programs are W7 compatible.