On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:28:23 -0500, D.Duck wrote:


Clean install?

From what I'm reading, that may not be an option. The upgrade version of
Vista requires XP to reside on the disk, although I believe there may be a
work-around. Also, if I'm not mistaken, once your register your upgrade
Vista, your XP license is toast. There's no going back.

http://help.wugnet.com/vista/Upgrade...pict25144.html


The work-around:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/31/c...de-discovered/

thunder wrote:
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:28:23 -0500, D.Duck wrote:


Clean install?

From what I'm reading, that may not be an option. The upgrade version of
Vista requires XP to reside on the disk, although I believe there may be a
work-around. Also, if I'm not mistaken, once your register your upgrade
Vista, your XP license is toast. There's no going back.

http://help.wugnet.com/vista/Upgrade...pict25144.html


The work-around:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/31/c...de-discovered/

It should be much simpler - you know what I mean?

Another reason never to buy anything from Apple.

They started all this GUI crap. :)

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On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:28:23 -0500, D.Duck wrote:


Clean install?

From what I'm reading, that may not be an option. The upgrade version of
Vista requires XP to reside on the disk, although I believe there may be a
work-around. Also, if I'm not mistaken, once your register your upgrade
Vista, your XP license is toast. There's no going back.

http://help.wugnet.com/vista/Upgrade...pict25144.html


The work-around:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/31/c...de-discovered/

How the hell can that cancel your WinXP license?

I don't even think M$ would do that, even it they could.

Also, if I'm not mistaken, once your register your upgrade
Vista, your XP license is toast.

That's easy to get around if you need to.

--Mike

"thunder" wrote in message
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On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:28:23 -0500, D.Duck wrote:


Clean install?

From what I'm reading, that may not be an option. The upgrade version of
Vista requires XP to reside on the disk, although I believe there may be a
work-around. Also, if I'm not mistaken, once your register your upgrade
Vista, your XP license is toast. There's no going back.

http://help.wugnet.com/vista/Upgrade...pict25144.html


The work-around:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/31/c...de-discovered/

On Feb 10, 11:25 am, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:
rbstern wrote:
On Feb 9, 10:39 am, Harry Krause wrote:
Got my new computer finished up this morning, though still waiting
delivery of storage drive. VISTA works fine. Initial first-time startup
takes a long time.

Got a "computer emergency" call from my sister last weekend. Brand
new HP something-or-other desktop with Vista. IE 7 quit working
altogether, with no meaningful error message, at some point during her
migration from the old PC. The HP support drones wanted her to start
from scratch with a reinstall of the factory CDs. She wouldn't have
any of that, since she had already invested many hours installing apps
and transferring files from the old PC.

Got her back on the 'net running Firefox. she did the research legwork
and discovered that a lot of others are having similar problems upon
installing their Canon printer driver.

If an operating system can't protect core applications from a poorly
behaved printer driver, it ain't much of an operating system.

Think I'll wait a service pack or two.

Interested to hear how Vista does for you over the coming weeks as you
do real work with it.

It probably is going to be hard to buy an OEM version of Windows XP
today, but I would never install Windows Vista into a computer currently
using Windows XP.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Didn't mean to give the impression that this was an upgrade. This was
an out of the box, brand new HP with Vista pre-installed, at first
start-up plus about 4 hours when my sister hit the wall with IE 7 and
the Cannon driver.