As a Windows fan, I’m quite excited about yesterday’s official launch of Windows 7. I’ve been running the beta and release candidate for a while now and CS3 and CS4 both run nicely on it. So, for the first ever I’m upgrading Windows immediately upon release. If you’re thinking of doing the same, here are few items you might want to be aware of.
If you’re going to do this here are some items to be aware of.
Deactivate Your Software
Make a check list of all your programs. Creative Suite applications can be deactivated from the help menu. If you have the suite, deactivating from any application will deactivate the suite. If you have individual products, they’ll all need to be deactivated individually.
Upgrade vs. Clean Install
Simple. Don’t do an in place upgrade.
It may save you a bit of time up front but you’re very likely to have some major headaches down the road. Stick to a clean install even if you’re using upgrade media.
Macs with Boot Camp
Unless you totally blow out the Boot Camp partition and start clean there’s a couple of things to be aware of.
Apple is not officially supporting this, yet. They have a note on their website saying they will support it later this year with a Boot Camp update. I wasn’t going to be deterred by something like that so I gave it a try and found out why it’s not supported. The Boot Camp services prevent the setup files from being written to disk.
There’s a way around that, too. Before trying to do the upgrade, make sure to run the Add/Remove Programs Control Panel and uninstall Boot Camp Services.
Once I did that, Windows 7 went on its merry way. The installation requires a couple of reboots, so you might want to set your machine to default to Windows before doing the upgrade. Otherwise you’ll need to baby sit the installation and hold the option key down to get it boot properly.
Creative Suite Support
With the release of Windows 7, Adobe has updated it’s Creative Suite FAQ which notes full support for Windows 7 with no required patches. They also note that CS3 has been part of the testing process.
That’s it for now. The MacBook is running just fine, but I haven’t done my desktop yet.
This article was last modified on December 20, 2021
This article was first published on October 23, 2009
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