Vista;l Windows Mail

[denmarfl]

I will be doing an in-place upgrade from Vista Home Prem to Windows 7. I
have been using Windows Mail which is part of Vista. When I do the Upgrade
to Windows 7;

1) The Vista OS will deleted and replaced with Windows 7.....?
2) Will Windows Mail be deleted since it is part of the Vista OS? I know
Windows Live Mail is available but have had no reason to make the switch.
3) Will the Upgrade have a feature where it saves Vista so if you encounter
issues you can revert back to Vista? (Or will Windows restore do that?)

 

[Leroy]

For expert Windows 7 advice, please repost your inquiry in the
appropriate Windows 7 Answers Forum:
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windows7

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, denmarfl.

I will be doing an in-place upgrade from Vista Home Prem to Windows 7.

No, you will not. The term "in-place upgrade" is out of place here. :>(

An in-place upgrade, also known as a repair install, means an upgrade from
WinXP to WinXP, for example. In other words, it simply re-installs the
current operating system. It is not an upgrade to a newer OS. In-place
upgrades were quite common in WinXP as a method to re-install corrupted
system files, but the procedure changed in Vista and the technique no longer
works as it did in WinXP.

have been using Windows Mail which is part of Vista. When I do the
Upgrade
to Windows 7;

Windows Mail is an integral part of Vista. It can't be deleted from Vista
and will not run on any other Windows version. (A few persistent users have
got it to run in Windows 7, but this is not supported. I've not tried it
myself.)

Windows 7 contains NO email or newsreader program. Windows Live Mail is
available at no charge from http://download.live.com , but it is not
included in Windows 7 or any other version of Windows. Thus Win7 users can
choose to install WLM or Outlook (NOT Outlook Express) or any third-party
applications of their choice.

3) Will the Upgrade have a feature where it saves Vista so if you
encounter
issues you can revert back to Vista? (Or will Windows restore do that?)

No. Many users install Win7 into a separate partition so that they can
evaluate it and customize it before they delete Vista from their computer.
Windows System Restore will restore only the Windows version which was
running when the Restore point was created AND it must be the same version
that is currently running.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64