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Re: In-Place Upgrade
Can you reformat and reinstall the base XP? If you are able to do that you
can then upgrade to Vista Business again and reinstall your apps after
carefully weeding out incompatible apps. It is the apps that are causing
the perf issues, not the the fact that you upgraded the OS. No part of XP
is retained when you upgrade to Vista because beginning with Vista every
install of the OS is a clean install of the OS.
If you did not remove all antivirus, anti-malware, and other apps that scan
or monitor the system then I don't wonder that you had issues. And, of
course, if you don't have Vista drivers where required you will have a big
perf hit.
"Chris Daley - Dwebs Ltd" <ChrisDaleyDwebsLtd@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in message news:F196E9A1-9B84-4B9B-970D-E3B322BFB413@microsoft.com...
> Same problem!
>
> MS sent us our vista business upgrade licenses, did an upgrade but ouch
> BSOD's all over the place, did a clean install performance increase was
> massive, but ouch our upgrade key's can't be used for clean installs.
>
> Had an hr long conversation with the MS guy's and they just said that’s
> the
> way it is, so if you upgrade you loose performance and not everything
> works
> but your license will activate but if you do a clean install you get
> greater
> performance but you cant activate.
>
> Not sure why MS picked this option for upgrades but a bad decision in my
> view, if users have paid for xp in the past and then go for vista upgrade
> it
> shows they are loyal and MS should respect that by offering clean
> installs.
>
> Anyways more people that complain the better according to MS!
>
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