7 home premium upgraded from vista home premium. now can I upgrade again?

seanincali

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hey everyone.

i have a dell inspiron laptop that i bought in 2009 that came with windows vista home premium 64 bit.

when vista support went away, i upgraded to windows 7 home premium 64 bit and it went pretty smooth.

then i had a virus that put a period at the end of the registry for the "explorer.exe." which caused the windows to load a blank black screen on start up. so I thought my laptop was a toast and bought a new hp laptop.

then that had to get service about a month ago, so i started to looking into fixing my old windows 7 machine. i was able to find a post about the corrupted registry entry and was able to resurrect my windows 7 by deleting the spurious period at the end.

and now that the support for the 7 is going away, i would like to look into the option of upgrading this windows 7 laptop that was upgraded from vista to windows 8.1

is that advisable?

last time i was able to find a downloadable image of windows 7 from microsoft website, and then buy an activation key on ebay for cheap. but i'm not having the same luck at the moment.

any suggestions would be welcome.
 
No difference. If you already have Windows 7 installed, its history doesn't matter, like was it installed on clean PC or upgraded from XP or Vista. It's Windows 7 now, it can be upgraded to 8.1 directly with keeping only the user files, or via the intermediate upgrade to 8 if you need to keep not only docs, but also all settings and installed programs.
 
Each version can be upgraded to the next. The fact that you started out with Vista is irrelevant now you have upgraded to W7. That can be upgraded to 8 or 10.

I had a dead XP machine with installed software I wanted to keep, the only working part left was its HDD. I took an image of that and restored it to a VM. I then successfully upgraded it in stages: first XP > Vista, then Vista > W7, finally W7 > W10.
 
thank you. doing this right now on my hp laptop using a remote desktop app, trustviewer. i love having two computers with a remote desktop app. not sure if trustviower is reputable though. so far so good.
 
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