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6 Months Later, a Report Card on Vista
Ok. So I have an issue that I don't know can be solved, but i hope you guys can help me out. I just got a new computer (compac) in febuary. it came with windows vista home premium which was cool although it took me a while to figure it out since I'm used to XP. So you all know the upgrade anytime cd comes with the

VisTa a ha ha
I'll hang in here in the hope that I might be of help, but I'm stymied for now. Good luck! "Michael Bruegmann" wrote: Hi, yes it was an in-place upgrade from You performed an in-place upgrade from Windows XP Professional to Windows Vista Business, correct? What is the history of the old WinXP installation?

Duplicate user accounts after Vista upgrade
But, I was hoping/expecting Vista to tell me the apps that weren't going to work properly. - my scanner is now intrusive, whereas under XP it didn't do anything until It messes up your desktop usually, but it is always better to use control panel remove software to remove old drivers if you can see then there,

Moving Day for That Vista Machine
Sure you can pay a lot more and get business Vista but you don't get the features in the Home Premium so then you have to spend a lot more to get the Ultra edition. Furthermore, if you open the You can use an upgrade version of Vista Home Premium to go from XP Pro to Vista, it just can't do an in place upgrade.

"Vista" is gonna have many people following the upgrade train ...
So too, I'm hearing some folks are demanding that XP-Pro be installed in new machines and are refusing Vista until the bugs are taken out of it and there is already a Vista bug fix and update! Usual story. Doc Tony ;-) There's a much better approach to SP2 install. You can't do it practially from dial-up,

Thoughts on Vista
Vista isn't perfect but when Vista is as old as XP is now, it will be in much better shape than XP. Vista is the worse OS ever made. Or you can upgrade your hardware to the 21st century. the FORCING of this DREADED OS on new computers Can you still get new machines with Win 98 or ME? the WMA and DRM Not a

The Vistas seen from Vista
When I started Vista it couldn't find my network connection or my old settings. Is there a way to just transfer settings from XP to Vista without upgrading XP to Vista? There is no upgrade installation for 64bit - it must be a clean install. You can use the Windows Easy Transfer to save your settings, however.

Vista upgrade over Xp has invalidated existing users. Cannot log i
Now, it's 5 days I cannot use my new PC for job since 50% of my job software doesn't match with Vista. When a buy seller gives me a new car, I turn the key and run; when I buyed two notebooks with XP, five years ago, I "turned the key and ran": no crashes, no recoveries, minimum old software upgrading.

If Vista is so bad then how come Microsoft made 81% more money ...
I can't figure out how to shut this thing up permanently. The Administrator account is disabled by default in a Vista installation. There are countless resources available that tell I spent 6 hours wiping my drive and re-installing XP. I'm happy now! I have nothing against XP. If it works for you then use it.

Why Mike now knows more about computers than he did last week!
I don't think that it is worthwhile the effort and associated risk of reinstalling all my work tools, databases, that they work today OK under XP. Which is your opinion about? All my computers are less than one year old. Perception is often 99% fantasy. For starters download and run the Vista Update Advisor.

Vista upgrade over Xp has invalidated existing users. Cannot l
Grrr. I try another one of my games and it asks me to upgrade the drivers, which I do. Same problem as before - the Vista beta drivers from ATI just make They certainly can't take any more from whimpering old ladies (who normally are barely able to use a computer to download email) and the General Public. who

Is there any way to get Hotmail on Vista?
And then the user buys the Vista upgrade package and it won't install. That was what the Seattle lawsuit that was filed recently was all about. I did notice the "vista capable" label and did wonder how a $400 PC with 512MB RAM and sucky graphics would do with Aero. I can't say I've been paying that much attention

Upgrade from Win XP HOME to PRO
One problem could be that the stored username and password feature of XP could be the problem since maybe it's holding an old password (if you've ever changed When they arrive, because of the new computer, I'm going to upgrade to Vista and MS Office Basic 2007. Before that happens I need to solve this delivery

Vista Activation Clean Install
I can't speak for the other people who have the same problem, but I wish you could/would go into my MSN and DELETE all my Favorites so I can repopulate it. XP and Vista users: The tool needs to be run under an Administrator account Win98/Win ME users: The computer must have the latest updates available from

My opinion
Brian -- Brian Gaff....Note, this account does not accept Bcc: email. graphics are great, but the blind can't hear them Email: bria...@blueyonder.co.uk I wonder if screen readers will really be available on release day for Vista [Microsoft's upgrade for XP]. I think there's a little more to it than that.

Best frugal technology deal you've gotten
I think I'll wait for a winning bid on a piece of memory before I'll get any upgrade on software though. can't use Aero for sure, but since Vista can That means I can upgrade both Hank and Lavender in one price. I think I know how to save the file in the old format, so thank you so much for your consideration.

SOS
Rick Rogers r...@mvps.org microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Hi George, Check for Windows.old, and if it exists you can recover the original installation: It also cannot be rolled back, as the upgrade process didn't see fit to keep a copy of my previous os. What now? Thanks, George.

system restore error after upgrade from XP Pro (solved)
I can't count on all my fingers and toes the number of times I wished I could have forced an item to remain in the recent list because I had to open .... number of times about the 2000/2003 office upgrade. This new UI for Office matches the Vista UI and provides a new sleek look to the system. I use 4 screens on my

Duplicate user accounts after Vista upgrade
And as if PC moving day weren’t hard enough, most people now faced with this task have to migrate from an older version of Windows to the new Windows Vista, These drives have software that can back up data from your old machine and restore it to your new one — or, to make things simple, you can use Windows

windows h& linux history
The Business Contact Manager doesn't appear in the toolbar until I click on it in the folders list. My contacts appear in the contact list but I can't open any contacts BCM could then change the folder permissions and proceed. Are you running Vista? If you are on Xp, add your login to the Administrator's group.