Upgrading to Windows 10 from Vista

My VM is currently running Windows Vista 32-bit under Parallels 10. I have just purchased Windows 10.
I found guidelines for upgrading to Windows 10 from Windows 7 and 8. Can I assume that I can use the same upgrade process from Vista?
I would like to avoid having to reinstall Quicken and my other Windows Apps.

 

Thanks Chris,
A fresh installation of Windows 10 seems pretty straightforward. My concern is what happens to my existing windows applications like Quicken which are running under the Vista VM. Will I have to reinstall all these applications under the new VM platform?

 

Hi Paul,
I have successfully installed Windows 10 under the Parallels 10 Desktop version 10.4.0. I was also able to reinstall my Quicken and Ufile applications under the new Windows OS. All the applications run, but very slowly.
Since installing the new Windows 10 OS I also notice that my Mac applications (eg. Mail, Excel and Safari) are really slow. I keep on getting the spinning beachball when I click the mouse. I have tried cleaning up my Mac using CleanMyMac 3 but performance has not improved.
I am running El Capitan 10.11.4 on an iMac 3.4 GHZ Intel Core i7 with 16 GB memory. This computer ran quickly with multiple applications open before this Windows 10 upgrade. I configured the new Windows 10 VM with 1 CPU and 2048 MB memory (64 bit).
I thought I successfully removed the Vista VM before I installed the new OS but in the Mac Finder I can still see ghost drive (or server) images: [C] Vista on Mac, [D] Vista on Mac, from the previous VM installation. Should these be removed, and if so how?
Can you recommend some actions I can take to restore the performance of my computer.
Thanks,
Andy

 

Hi AndyS4, You can remove [C]Vista on Mac, [D]Vista on Mac and you can do it by a right click on [C] and [D] and Click 'Eject'

 

Hi, As you have installed Windows 10, provide RAM memory minimum with 2 GB. You may also refer to this article to tune Windows performance.