Resolved Vista to 7: What gets migrated?

Hello All,
I am currently running Vista 64-bit Ultimate. I have just about reached the point where I am either going to have to reinstall Vista or migrate to 7. Things have been running slow in Vista (DreamWeaver takes forever to load, Outlook gets slower the longer it is open, etc.) and the increasing multitude of slow-downs & stalls have passed the minor annoyance stage.

I would like to know just what settings, etc. get migrated & what gets created anew. Late last year, I encountered an irreversible problem w/ XAMPP. Because of some registry change somewhere, XAMPP stopped working & no amount of un-install/reinstall tom-foolery could get it to work again. I'm using IIS for all of my web design which is very unsatisfactory for my LAMP development.

I am concerned that whatever is wrong w/ the registry vis a vis' XAMPP in Vista will be transferred to the registry in 7 leaving me not much better off than I am now.

Should I try the standard upgrade approach or should I go for a scorched-earth (i.e. Clean) installation?

 

I Was Afraid that You'd Say That!

Pete,
Actually, that was pretty much what I was thinking myself. There was always a bit of hope that I'd get off easy but a clean install may actually be "getting off easy ".

 

Divide & Conquer

I'm thinking of picking up a refurbished Dell Inspirion 545 for $349 (US) & moving my IIS related development over to that machine. Part of my problem is that I've got too much going on w/ the main machine & I think that the Inspirion 545 would do well enough for development purposes as well as a few specialty apps that I use once in a blue moon.

IIS work is a (very) minor part of my business and the 545 should do the trick for me.