Vista - UPGRADE WORKS PERFECTLY

I WAS PLEASENTLY SURPRISED TO SEE MICROSOFT HAS GOT THE UPGRADE OPTION SORTED
OUT. I THOUGHT I WOULD BE A DEVIL AND GIVE THE PRE RC1 A WHIRL VIA UPGRADE
RATHER THAN CLEAN INSTALL EXPECTING MANY PROBLEMS. EVERY THING WORKS
PERFECTLY SO FAR APART FROM PC CHILLIN WHICH I HAD TO REINSTALL.

There is no need to 'yell' Neil (with CAPITALS).
On the other hand, great to hear it went well.


"Neil Maley" <NeilMaley@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I WAS PLEASENTLY SURPRISED TO SEE MICROSOFT HAS GOT THE UPGRADE OPTION
>SORTED
> OUT. I THOUGHT I WOULD BE A DEVIL AND GIVE THE PRE RC1 A WHIRL VIA UPGRADE
> RATHER THAN CLEAN INSTALL EXPECTING MANY PROBLEMS. EVERY THING WORKS
> PERFECTLY SO FAR APART FROM PC CHILLIN WHICH I HAD TO REINSTALL.

"Neil Maley" <NeilMaley@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EC714A1B-D69D-47C0-941D-BC832EE883F5@microsoft.com...
>I WAS PLEASENTLY SURPRISED TO SEE MICROSOFT HAS GOT THE UPGRADE OPTION
>SORTED
> OUT. I THOUGHT I WOULD BE A DEVIL AND GIVE THE PRE RC1 A WHIRL VIA UPGRADE
> RATHER THAN CLEAN INSTALL EXPECTING MANY PROBLEMS. EVERY THING WORKS
> PERFECTLY SO FAR APART FROM PC CHILLIN WHICH I HAD TO REINSTALL.

Mind the caps :-)
How long did it take to upgrade? My full install took about 45 minutes.

Know what you mean about the caps now I've read it on the board! Stricktly a
low case man from now on.

It took going on for an hour start to finish. There was a new option during
the pre install that asked if I wanted to let Windows conntect to the
internet during the installation for up to date installation files. I said it
could do this and for the first fifteen minutes or so it was doing some
pretty intensive downloading. Did that happen on the clean install?

Neil.

"Beck" wrote:

>
> "Neil Maley" <NeilMaley@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:EC714A1B-D69D-47C0-941D-BC832EE883F5@microsoft.com...
> >I WAS PLEASENTLY SURPRISED TO SEE MICROSOFT HAS GOT THE UPGRADE OPTION
> >SORTED
> > OUT. I THOUGHT I WOULD BE A DEVIL AND GIVE THE PRE RC1 A WHIRL VIA UPGRADE
> > RATHER THAN CLEAN INSTALL EXPECTING MANY PROBLEMS. EVERY THING WORKS
> > PERFECTLY SO FAR APART FROM PC CHILLIN WHICH I HAD TO REINSTALL.
>
> Mind the caps :-)
> How long did it take to upgrade? My full install took about 45 minutes.
>
>

"Neil Maley" <NeilMaley@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Know what you mean about the caps now I've read it on the board! Stricktly
> a
> low case man from now on.
>
> It took going on for an hour start to finish. There was a new option
> during
> the pre install that asked if I wanted to let Windows conntect to the
> internet during the installation for up to date installation files. I said
> it
> could do this and for the first fifteen minutes or so it was doing some
> pretty intensive downloading. Did that happen on the clean install?

Yes I started the install from the XP desktop. I allowed it to download the
extra install files (that took about a minute) and then did a custom install
to a second partition.
Worked seamlessly. Maybe yours took longer as it might have needed extra
files being it an upgraded over XP?

My updgrade install took almost 4 hours although it went without a hitch.

Generally things are much better except that I am no longer able to install
the XP driver for my 32 mb ATI 128 rage ultra graphic chip. I'm stuck with
Standard VGA. Also Pc Cillin doesn't work

"Beck" <beck@none> wrote in message
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>
> "Neil Maley" <NeilMaley@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:EC714A1B-D69D-47C0-941D-BC832EE883F5@microsoft.com...
>>I WAS PLEASENTLY SURPRISED TO SEE MICROSOFT HAS GOT THE UPGRADE OPTION
>>SORTED
>> OUT. I THOUGHT I WOULD BE A DEVIL AND GIVE THE PRE RC1 A WHIRL VIA
>> UPGRADE
>> RATHER THAN CLEAN INSTALL EXPECTING MANY PROBLEMS. EVERY THING WORKS
>> PERFECTLY SO FAR APART FROM PC CHILLIN WHICH I HAD TO REINSTALL.
>
> Mind the caps :-)
> How long did it take to upgrade? My full install took about 45 minutes.