If you have a full version of Vista, I'd just wipe and reinstall and forget
upgrading from XP unless it's necessary. Personally I have had no problems
with Vista crashing, either upgrade or clean install; but depending on how
"dirty" your base XP system was you could have some problems.
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"Mickey Segal" <not_monitored@example.com> wrote in message
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>I did a (non-clean) upgrade from XP to Vista, and find that Vista is
>hanging and crashing a lot. I'm not sure how much of this is bugginess of
>Vista itself and how much is the problems of non-clean upgrades. If this
>gets any worse I'll need to start again. Since I've already activated my
>copy of Vista, what are my options?
>
> Do I need to do a recovery install of XP first, and can I even do a
> recovery install of XP if I used my copy of XP for the upgrade?
>
> Can I do a clean installation using my current Vista installation?
>
> Does a clean installation wipe out just Windows or wipe out all
> information on the hard drive?
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