The setup will check exisiting apps and you can also use the upgrade advisor
to check. this will cover most of the major apps. In some cases setup will
even prevent install if an app that is known to be bad is on the system.
had this happen to me because of and old version of nero.
--
Josh
http://windowsconnected.com
"Dr. Heywood Floyd" <dhfloyd@2001.org> wrote in message
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>A recent post here "Advice on Tweaking" started me thinking about the
>subject.
>
> How is one to know what will work with Vista and what will not?
> How about the major ones like:
> Dreamweaver 8 (Suite)
> PhotoShop CS2
> Adobe LightRoom
> RAW Shooter
> etc
>
> How about some not so major but would like to keep items:
> AdAware
> SpyBot SD
> Agent Ransack
> Belarc Advisor
> WSftp
> Office 2000
> FrontPage 2002
> etc
>
> And:
> SpySweeper
> Registry Mechanic
> PC Phone (iConnect)
> MusicMatch JukeBox
> etc
>
> If one does a Vista upgrade over an existing OS and some, or many, of the
> items do not work what's the result? A real mess?
>
> Any thoughts?