The transition from XP to Windows 7 is not going to be smooth - certainly as smooth as from Vista to W7 - if the plethora of online articles is to be believed. I run XP, but don't plan to upgrade until next year at the earliest, probably after the inevitable Service Pack 1 for W7 comes out, and in conjunction with a hardware upgrade, which I'll be due for anyway by then. Hopefully, by then some of the kinks will have been ironed out. Most articles seem to suggest that a clean install is going to work best - that means you effectively wipe your hard drive and start again from scratch. Of course, it also means it's essential to back up all your data. (And let's hope you have the original disks or installation files for all the programs you use!)
If you want to do it sooner, here are a few articles to help you:
First up, an article with lots of screenshots.
Here are five things PC World thinks you should be aware of.
Computerworld has a series of helpful questions and answers.
Assuming the upgrade goes well, PC World explains how the new W7 interface works differently from XP.
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