If you are going to perform an in-place upgrade from XP, you have many fewer choices than if you were going to do a clean install. It’s time to let it go! In-place upgrade 1.
That XP system hasn’t had a security patch in over a year. If you do choose to go with the Tux, do a clean install.
Today, we’re assuming you are sticking with Microsoft. It’s a legitimate choice for some, but not a topic we’ll cover in this post. You might also want to consider jumping from Windows to Linux. However, your options are more limited, in that XP can be in-place upgraded to Windows 7, but not to 8 or (when it’s available) 10. Personally, I don’t like to do in-place upgrades, but that is a prejudice that stems from the 90s and not from any first-hand bad experience with doing an in-place upgrade of XP. So we thought it would be good to create a checklist for upgrading, to help those who may need that last little nudge to get current.įor starters, consider whether you want to do an actual upgrade, or if you want to reimage the user’s machine. I even saw it running in the lobby of a hotel, on those machines you use to print your boarding pass…and all of that was just last week! XP may be gone for many of us, but it is still around in enough places. I have seen it at my bank, at my dentist’s office, at the ticket counter of at least two major airlines, running the reservation system of a fancy restaurant, and also running the self-service terminal at a not so fancy restaurant. Okay, so it’s been over a year since XP went end of life, but still, not a week goes by that I don’t see XP running somewhere.
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