Upgrading windows without losing programs and files

JhonConners

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Jul 17, 2015
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So I am using windows 7 home premium and was looking to upgrade it to either windows 8.1 or 10. (I already have a key for windows 8.1 so...)

I've had to install/reinstall windows many times and have lost all my programs (they're in the folders and all but I had to reinstall them)

On a different machine, I upgraded from windows 8.1 to 10 and I didn't lose my files and programs so that is why I was wondering if I could do it for this
 
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Assuming no technical difficulties, you should be able to upgrade and not lose anything. I have several, formerly Win 7 systems, that were updated to Win 10 and I lost absolutely nothing. It was as easy and straight forward as it gets.

If you are going to upgrade, I would just skip the 8.x path altogether. Why not use Win 10, which is arguably better than Win 7 and Win 8.x in every way (when you perform a factual based comparison vice the hyperbole of expressed opinions from the tinfoil hat club)?

If you are happy with Win 7 and it is doing everything you need, why upgrade at all? That is also something you should consider.
you should be able to upgrade to both os if you want. all you do is run the installer from inside windows to start the upgrade. when done you have old windows backup folder on your drive. if there any info you cant lose back it up. not all upgrades go right.
 
Assuming no technical difficulties, you should be able to upgrade and not lose anything. I have several, formerly Win 7 systems, that were updated to Win 10 and I lost absolutely nothing. It was as easy and straight forward as it gets.

If you are going to upgrade, I would just skip the 8.x path altogether. Why not use Win 10, which is arguably better than Win 7 and Win 8.x in every way (when you perform a factual based comparison vice the hyperbole of expressed opinions from the tinfoil hat club)?

If you are happy with Win 7 and it is doing everything you need, why upgrade at all? That is also something you should consider.
 
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Understood. I would still suggest 10 over 8.x. It also works nicely with touchscreens (wife has Toshiba with such a config and I have a Surface Pro).