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I had not realized that I can't *update* from Windows XP to
Windows 7, but I always do a fresh install anyway.

You /can/ do it by upgrading XP to Vista as an intermediate step, then
from Vista to 7. Whether you /should/ is another matter

I've done this on several machines and it's (mostly) worked. The
chances of success are higher if you give the original XP machine a good
clean up first - uninstall unwanted apps, run CCleaner, defrag, etc. and
pay attention to what the Upgrade Advisor tool says.

Of course, a fresh install is preferable. It's just that I had my XP
system tweaked just how I wanted it, I had a load of installed apps,
many of which I no longer had the original install media for, etc. etc.

It took a while, but was satisfying eventually seeing 7 come up with my
tweaks and installed apps present and working. It's been running for
about 18 months now and is in use every day.

I save my user data onto a different drive. That way, I can blat and
reinstall the OS if I need to (I've never, ever done this and have
upgraded 'in place' from W3.1 - W95 - W98 - W98SE - Win2k - WinXP -
Vi$ta - Win7) without affecting my data. The backup program I use
backs up various important directories, including My Twee Things,
nightly, and occasionally I take an image of the system SSD so if that
ever fails, recovery is just a matter of writing the image to a
replacement.

Notice that backups and reinstallation are easy if you never
put anything into any of the original Microsoft folders!

c:\data {for all their user data}

I'm unconvinced. If you back up \Users, you backup all user data plus
the temporary working directories that applications use (AppData, etc.)

c:\data\software\{archiver,browser,editor,etc.} for installers

c:\Downloads for me. I don't let browsers and downloaders save into "My
Twee Downloads".

c:\temp {for all temporary files}

+1. It's incredibly useful.

Given that, my plan is the following (does it seem feasible to you?):

Looks OK to me. I haven't used W10 in anger, and have no intention of
ever doing so, so will leave it to others to comment on your strategy.

Good luck. I think you'll need it

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(='.'=) Bunny says: Windows 10? Nein danke!
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