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Re: In-Place Upgrade
To supplement Kerry's fine answer, yes the upgrade-in-place will preserve
your files, settings, and apps. However, you must pay close attention to
the compatibility report you get during the upgrade process and follow its
instructions with regard to programs and drivers that do not work with Vista
or you may wind up with a dysfunctional system. In particular you MUST
remove antivirus and antimalware programs and any program that performs live
scans or monitors the system. The compat report should list those. Don't
ignore any of the advice in the compat report. It is not only that they may
not work with Vista, they may actually cause the installation fail.
"Craig" <Craig@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4A951E5C-E268-48D3-8924-C5B2F86B0940@microsoft.com...
> Hello,
> I just downloaded Vista Business through MSDNAA and currently have WinXP
> Pro. I was reading about the in-place upgrade option they have and it is
> available under my circumstances. Will this essentially be the same as
> just
> changing to Vista and being able to keep all of my programs with their
> same
> functionality? I'm just a little hazy about trying to do this, because I
> dont' want to lose somethings. I have two partitions on my harddrive.
> One
> which houses XP and the other various programs and such. If the install
> goes
> bad, I can always just wipe the XP partition and reinstall correct?
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