Any one receive windows 7 from hp yet?

Nov 10 - submitted
Nov 17 - POP approval

 

Ordered 18 Sept, delivered 18 Nov.

I have a question about the COA label. It says "Win Vista Bus to Win 7 Pro UPG Fulfill" on it.

My question is, if I put this label on the bottom of my laptop, does that mean I have a legal fully licensed windows 7 system? Or do I still need the vista COA that the "upgrade" applies to?

Cheers
Stu.

 

update: 11/17 - shipped via DHL

 

funny how hp is sending them out right before thanksgiving. how cute. :: rolling eyes ::

 

im still waiting for mine. sigh. they got till the 24th

 

update: transferred to USPS 11/19

 

Update:

Finally got my disc. Delivery was promised by Dec. 4, so it's ahead of the deadline.


I've only had my system for 90 days I'll be doing a standard upgrade. I'll post again after it's installed.


Ordered on Oct. 22, '09, received Nov. 28, '09.

 

Got W7 all in stalled and loving it. It was a little sluggish at start (had to connect online for some needed updates) but things appear to have stabilized and I'm enjoying the increased stability and speed.

One thing I've noticed is, I now see double the signals on my wifi and the connection to my signal is a lot more stable than before.

 

final update: received 11/23/09 (i think )

 

Mine was just transferred to USPS yesterday morning. I hope I get it by the end of this week.

P.S. Did anyone do an upgrade instead of a clean install?

 

Yes, I went the upgrade route. Vista Home Premium x64 to Windows 7 Home Premium x64. I had too much stuff already loaded and integrated into my OS to want to spend a whole day or more re-doing all of that. The upgrade went very smoothly. My only complaint is that it took a long time - about 3 hours IIRC. Windows 7 wanted to touch every file on the laptop - all 700,000+ of them in my instance.

But once it all finished, almost everything has worked fine. I backed out the Digital Persona fingerprint reader / identity manager that the HP setup disk insisted in installing even though my DV7-2173CL doesn't have a reader. The HP Support Assistant (stub of an older version perhaps?) consistently tells me I don't have an Internet connection when it tries to run automatically - whether I'm on wired or wi-fi, direct or VPN. The full updated HP Support Assistant and HP Update, when launched manually, find the Internet fine.

I'm also running the Office 2010 + Visio 2010 betas. Very nicely integrated into Windows 7. Things are improved even over the RC version of Windows 7.

 

Just got the upgrade CD from HP today after waiting over a month to be shipped. No rush to install going with upgrade path instead of the fresh install.

 

My computer was only 3 month old with virtually no files on it. All I had were a few pictures and a trial version of Adobe CS4 that was about to expire. Still, there was not good reason for me to go custom. Much to my surprise, the install took 4 hours! And that's in addition the my backup the previous day which also too 4 hours. However, in that one I had to sit at the computer and constantly change out DVDs (7-4.5gb) since I had no external HD (hope to get one for Christmas).

One bug though is that the next day, my system start maxing out the CPU and everything slowed to molasses speed. All the adviser I check (including this one) suggested it was a driver mismatch. So I ran the system optimization, (and did a virus scan) and it seem to be operating as before. Still a little disappointing since I was hoping for more speed (as promised) not equal.

Now to learning how to navigate all over again. I just graduated to Vista from XP only 9 months ago.

 

I didn't received my upgrade yet, but like you, everytime that I do HDD intensive tasks, I find that it's slow as hell. I have a 5400RPM HDD drive here.

Can't wait to go SSD when prices drop! Even a 7200 RPM would be welcome!

 

I receive my today.
Do I must install new drivers after that?
Can I reverse this upgrade if Im not happy with ?

 

Only if you make a backup disc--which is highly recommended. It took me 4 hour to make the backup, then another four to run the upgrade.

It's a molasses slow event which is why most people run them an night. However, I had to change discs so I was forced to 'watch the paint dry."

 

So the upgrade went fine for you guys? All of the programs still worked?

 

With the acception of that previous bug I posted (loaded CPU) everything works fine.

That said, it's going to be some time before I take my system through all it's paces. I've no doubt other problems will crop up, but that's to be expected considering a new OS.

One funny thing though, when I turned my computer off, it wend black almost immediately. I thought oh my god, what's wrong now. Then I realized the short log off time was one of W7 improved features and not a flaw. I had to laugh at myself on that one.