The Windows 7 Upgrade Saga

It's been a couple years since the last Windows Upgrade Saga... so let's change that while I spend way too much time trying to upgrade through a bunch of Windows 7 builds.

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“Cancun” from the YouTube Audio Library

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[mikesadorf]

There's a direct correlation between how entertaining these long form videos are going to be and how dejected Michael sounds in the intro.

Love the channel and great work as always!

[yetinaut]

The fact that the 6931 build had a slow fade out of the "Preparing your Desktop" screen to then slowly fading in the desktop, that's junk you'd think people would do nowadays, but to see i was in a pre-beta build of Windows 7, in addition to that progress bar for the boot is kinda crazy!

[CEOable]

I have never seen Windows 7 beta builds being installed on an actual computer. It's cool to see them being experimented on that HP laptop though. Nice work!

[j.w.techchannel]

70 minutes of Michael MJD content... And it's about Windows 7. This will be exciting 👍

[MyszkoServe]

Windows 7: The best windows ever released. No ads, no junk, no force updates, no tour to skip and no bloatware. An operating system that just worked very stable and looked good. 13 Years of use and no single crash or bluescreen.

[SomnusLucisCaelum]

Win7 was the cutest, friendliest Windows environment MS created. Sometimes it feels like all of the improvements they made with this OS were thrown out with 10 and 11. But 8 was def the beginning of Chaos

[apostolissofkos]

Continue making these upgrade saga videos, please. I really enjoy watching how Windows developed.

[_helmi]

Fun fact, Windows 7 was released to critical acclaim in the year 2009 and called as the "Snow Leopard killer" - Snow Leopard being Apple's Mac OS X version 10.6, also released in the same year to critical acclaim. Personally, I was 18 at that time and had just started college. Windows 7 brought a lot of college memories and I always wanted a Mac/iPhone since forever but they were too expensive. Only got my first iPhone in 2015 - the iPhone 6S Plus and my first Mac - Mac mini M1 in 2020. But yeah, Windows 7 was probably THE best version of Windows ever.

[Jorge.ALXNDR]

sometimes it's really hard to explain to someone why I get so excited about a video like this. For some it sounds like the most boring thing to watch and they really can't get it. I feel like an alien

[mootwo_]

one of my favorite details is how the RAM specification changes between each build: sometimes it's 2.99, sometimes it's 2.00, and other times it's 4.00! it's a gamble on whether or not you'll be able to multitask!

[FlyboyHelosim]

This video just goes to show that it's always best to do a clean installation!

[HarmlessBongo]

An hour of Michael AND Windows 7???? Perfect

[KatJustice]

These are some of my favorite types of videos on this channel. There's just something so calming about being taken on a chill tour of the steps taken towards creating an OS. Moreso when Everything Goes Wrong...™ and we just get to hang out while you problem solve. Love that kinda thing

[philtkaswahl]

A full hour of Win 7 upgrades? Truly a saga worthy of the name.

[MarcBaggett]

Another great video!!! Really enjoy these upgrade saga videos!

[Stev]

Windows 7 is my favorite OS of all time, I used to have a Lenovo ThinkPad T61 11.4 inch and I had Windows 7 Enterprise on it

[cheebadigga]

one of the best video series of all time! It's like the usual druaga1 stuff but in a different era of time lol

[spaghetto]

a few years ago i reinstalled windows 7 home premium rtm on my old pc and got through all that, it was a pain but kinda nostalgic getting all these updates...

[andrewsawesome]

One minute and 41 seconds into an MJD video, and something is already off. Perfection!
Seriously though, thank you for helping us to understand the complexity of installing on older software, especially on older systems.

[BenState]

Back in the day, we'd update, then immediately do a fresh install. The way to do it for cheap. I definately remember that you couldn't go from beta to RTM. It was well advertised at the time.