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discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: Anthony's solution is intended if you are upgrading from xp tovista. I am upgrading fromvistabasic tovistahome premium Now I haveduplicate user accounts/profiles showing up on myloginscreen. As far as I can tell, there is only one true account, but two identical icons appear.

Hej, sciepowi Mac'owcy: It's time to get a Mac ?
Somebody actually believes that Vista constitutes an upgrade! Ah well. Read on, I suppose. First Elf found Vista is pickier than a cuddle elf without any pizz@. You have to get rid of the old Norton and can't load it again from discs and have to run the new program. When Digital wrote the original Windows NT

Favorites - Official MSN Update
HO.com> wrote: ray wrote: Microsoft has already told reporters that OEMs are getting the option of Installing Windows XP, IF they upgrade to Vista .... If they want to use a lower classed machine, then more power to them. But that doesn't account for everyone, I don't even think it accounts for the vast majority.

Is there any way to get Hotmail on Vista?
There were 4 users and various system accounts like ASPNET, IUSR_etc and IWAM_etc in XP. They are all gone!! Clearly something is very wrong here. How can I force a login as Administrator? I have been left with an entirely unaccessable system. It also cannot be rolled back, as the upgrade process didn't see fit to

Visa encrypted old xp(home) files on the external drives?
Even though I still have XP installed on those machines, I only boot back to XP to do updates. Yes, XP now looks a bit old to me, but looks can be deceiving. .... Finally, out of curiosity, Microsoft's Vista Upgrade Advisor was run. It reported that the computer didn't have enough drive space, even though Vista was

General ramble about upgrade of XP to Vista
The storage of individual EML messages into the indexed MessageStore of Windows Mail is much more secure than the old PST files of Exchange. .... This isn’t such a great situation. Two Drives Restoring Vista and dual booting Because you can’t use the Windows XP bootloader to boot Vista, we have to reinstate Vista’s

License issue under Vista with betas
I was a diehard 98 person, and *hated* XP. Now that I've been running it for about 1 1/2 years, I've grown to like it. -- HTH, Curt Windows Support Center .... Writing the BootIt NG to free space on the disk, after shrinking the existing partition is a distant second, since it can't be copied the Computer B.

Vista RC1 & RC2 Lessons learned so far. (May help the newbies)
And the more I look around the more I learn I don't have control over very much. I can't get access into some of the folders under my own account. Right now she is still working off of the old XP computer. Okay, before I do something crazy here this is what is happening at the permissions level.

Frontpage won't open after installing Expression Web!
I assure you that there are indeed billions of ibm-compatible (so-called) personal computers in use in the world right now. There are not billions of copies of XP running. There is no need to upgrade to Vista unless you want Aero (the new GUI), but that won't stop many people from installing Vista on systems

Copying ziped files from XP Pro machine to Vista Home
Now I don't have the panic of having my new install deactivated in 30 days I can concentrate on a more organised approach going forward. When you upgrade from XP you cannot use uninstall programs in Control Panel. Ideally I would just deactivate the old copy. At the moment the dual usage helps as I check out

Vista Windows SBS 2003 Server - Cannot join or browse Internet ...
It doesnt work! 'Can't comment yet .. I still use a mouse. In real world tests speech to text is truly crap. Although it works in more things than XP that just means more things it Define "The right hardware" -The cost of use of vista (in time, labor and upgrade expenses) is more than anything ever seen before.

Vista continues to grow, Intel Mac up, others down
The big question tho, is if the hard drive becomes a machine lathe and starts grinding away on the platters, how do you use the back up to restore to a new hard drive?? I can't speak for XP, but the Win98 Windows Backup program was designed to back up to tape. You could, however, also back up to a disk file. Now

Vista: peripherals don't work and I can't confugre -- unacceptab
And Windows XP is going to stick around much longer than Microsoft ever wanted it to. Still, it won't be enough. By attacking from the bottom, where Microsoft .... Added openSUSE - dual boot, so I can use both. `---- http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/14993 Vista Upgrade: Stuck in the Middle of Nowhere

Visa encrypted old xp(home) files on the external drives?
Look at how the service packs are applied now. You can simply apply the Exchange SP2 service packs. None of my clients are using sharepoint and mainly use the OS/ fileserver and the Exchange system - because of the packaging and cost. I don't think the wizards are the problem here and I did check and the

So who here is going to upgrade to Vista?
Claims by some Linux publishers that anybody can easily switch to Linux from Windows seem totally oversold. In the end, I decided to buy an upgrade copy of Windows XP for $100. That normally wouldn't be a good idea since it doesn't upgrade the file system. But it's a good solution until Vista arrives.

Snot on MS Vista....
Much the same as Unix and the *root* account. As for comparing OS speed, I can not do that! My Dell e521 PC is a AMD Athlon X2 +4600 w/2GB. And it is a another world away from the P4 I don't think it as new, more like an XP upgrade. I got Vista Home Basic only because it was the only way to get a new PC, cheap.

Tech Tip 123: Introducing... Windows Vista - Part I Can Vista Live ...
Now Windows Vista can do the same thing via a by-design feature of the OS [Note J]. This issue, unless it can be clearly resolved, would make the use of Vista PCs ...... "I can't playback HD because I need to upgrade my 2 (SLI'd) Nvidia Quadro 4500's (~$2000) to a $200 FX7600GT because it supports HDCP.

Old software
Both Windows versions happily use the same copy of Quicken and I don't have to try to synchronize my Preferences between two copies. ;<) And I can still write checks from WinXP x86 in the morning and reconcile that bank account in Vista x64 in the afternoon. (Well, I could and did, until my WinXP stopped working.

system restore error after upgrade from XP Pro (solved)
This problem started after upgrading from Vista Home Premium to Ultimate. The version of Ultimate used was the full version not the Upgrade although the Now I haveduplicate user accounts/profiles showing up on myloginscreen. As far as I can tell, there is only one true account, but two identical icons appear.

Simplified FAQ for people new to Vista
I remember XP nags you do this, I'm guessing most people don't bother. This is the only way I can think of to still unlock the files. Its too late if you don't already have one. For others with encrypted files right now make a data recovery agent. This is just a second user account. This is a safety net just in