I have purchased an upgrade from vista basic to premium.I have not installed
the upgrade as of yet and my question is; if I do, will I lose all of my
settings and programs that I have downloaded and installed into basic? Will I
lose my programs and have to go through the process of downloading all of
them again?

"fcs25" <fcs25@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1913E587-43A7-4082-8EEF-CC7E5DC8723D@microsoft.com...
>I have purchased an upgrade from vista basic to premium.I have not
>installed
> the upgrade as of yet and my question is; if I do, will I lose all of my
> settings and programs that I have downloaded and installed into basic?
> Will I
> lose my programs and have to go through the process of downloading all of
> them again?


The upgrade will preserve your data, programs and settings.

--
Jim

Hi,

No, the upgrade should preserve existing programs and user settings. It just
adds functionality.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"fcs25" <fcs25@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1913E587-43A7-4082-8EEF-CC7E5DC8723D@microsoft.com...
>I have purchased an upgrade from vista basic to premium.I have not
>installed
> the upgrade as of yet and my question is; if I do, will I lose all of my
> settings and programs that I have downloaded and installed into basic?
> Will I
> lose my programs and have to go through the process of downloading all of
> them again?