Upgrade Vista to Windows 7

Ok I have a T61 which is still works reasonably well for my purposes (core duo T7500 @ 2.2 GHz + 8g Ram). Windows Vista has become corrupted in some way which interferes with printing and now McAfee anti virus is giving me problems as well. So I figure it is time to upgrade to Windows 7.
What is the best way to go about it? Download 7 from MSFT site? That would seem the easiest.
Will 7 use the subsystems already resident on the computer thus inheriting the problems of Vista?
Thanks for your guidance.

Hello,
You might want to take a look into purchasing a license that includes the physical media for the installing the operating system, such as an Upgrade Edition license, which you can still perform a clean installation with, as opposed to just an upgrade of the existing operating system.
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