Vista - Is it dangerous to "upgrade" to Vista?

Dear friends:

Is it dangerous to "upgrade" XP Pro SP2 to Vista Business?

In another newsgroup, I asked about "upgrading" XP to Vista, and I
received more than 12+ horrified replies telling me to never do that,
nothing will work OK after an upgrade, etc. They tell me that the only
possibility to succeed was to do a clean Vista install, and to
reinstall, after that, all my applications and databases.

If this perception is true, I think that I will *never* go to Vista,
until I replace all my computers in two years or more. I don't think
that it is worthwhile the effort and associated risk of reinstalling
all my work tools, databases, that they work today OK under XP.

Which is your opinion about? All my computers are less than one year
old.

Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

there is always a slight risk that some programs might "break", although I
have upgraded to Ultimate I have not encountered any problems EXCEPT WITH MY
GRAPHICS DRIVER now fixed.

If in doubt take a image of the hard drive, so you can revert if needed, and
give it a try...

DominicM

"Juan I. Cahis" <jiclbchSINBASURA@attglobal.net> wrote in message
news:kpe7131r4ko5ioojb7cir1ja0cgkanir89@4ax.com...
Dear friends:

Is it dangerous to "upgrade" XP Pro SP2 to Vista Business?

In another newsgroup, I asked about "upgrading" XP to Vista, and I
received more than 12+ horrified replies telling me to never do that,
nothing will work OK after an upgrade, etc. They tell me that the only
possibility to succeed was to do a clean Vista install, and to
reinstall, after that, all my applications and databases.

If this perception is true, I think that I will *never* go to Vista,
until I replace all my computers in two years or more. I don't think
that it is worthwhile the effort and associated risk of reinstalling
all my work tools, databases, that they work today OK under XP.

Which is your opinion about? All my computers are less than one year
old.

Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

IMHO - Stay with XP and see what happens.
If it works for you...what real benefits are you going to get from the
upgrade....?


"Juan I. Cahis" <jiclbchSINBASURA@attglobal.net> wrote in message
news:kpe7131r4ko5ioojb7cir1ja0cgkanir89@4ax.com...
Dear friends:

Is it dangerous to "upgrade" XP Pro SP2 to Vista Business?

In another newsgroup, I asked about "upgrading" XP to Vista, and I
received more than 12+ horrified replies telling me to never do that,
nothing will work OK after an upgrade, etc. They tell me that the only
possibility to succeed was to do a clean Vista install, and to
reinstall, after that, all my applications and databases.

If this perception is true, I think that I will *never* go to Vista,
until I replace all my computers in two years or more. I don't think
that it is worthwhile the effort and associated risk of reinstalling
all my work tools, databases, that they work today OK under XP.

Which is your opinion about? All my computers are less than one year
old.

Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

I have done an upgrade from XP Home to Vista Business and it was very
problematic, driver issues and application compatibility.

If you choose to do a clean install, it cannot be done with upgrade version
of Vista, you have to purchase the full packaged product. A clean install is
always the best route I say since it guarantees way less tweaking than the
upgrade. And it does not take as long either.
--
Andre
Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
My Vista Quickstart Guide:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
"Juan I. Cahis" <jiclbchSINBASURA@attglobal.net> wrote in message
news:kpe7131r4ko5ioojb7cir1ja0cgkanir89@4ax.com...
Dear friends:

Is it dangerous to "upgrade" XP Pro SP2 to Vista Business?

In another newsgroup, I asked about "upgrading" XP to Vista, and I
received more than 12+ horrified replies telling me to never do that,
nothing will work OK after an upgrade, etc. They tell me that the only
possibility to succeed was to do a clean Vista install, and to
reinstall, after that, all my applications and databases.

If this perception is true, I think that I will *never* go to Vista,
until I replace all my computers in two years or more. I don't think
that it is worthwhile the effort and associated risk of reinstalling
all my work tools, databases, that they work today OK under XP.

Which is your opinion about? All my computers are less than one year
old.

Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

I've upgraded several computer to Windows Vista Business from
Windows XP and have not encountered issues that could not be
easily resolved. Windows Vista is far more secure and reliable then
Windows XP.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User

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"Juan I. Cahis" wrote:

Dear friends:

Is it dangerous to "upgrade" XP Pro SP2 to Vista Business?

In another newsgroup, I asked about "upgrading" XP to Vista, and I
received more than 12+ horrified replies telling me to never do that,
nothing will work OK after an upgrade, etc. They tell me that the only
possibility to succeed was to do a clean Vista install, and to
reinstall, after that, all my applications and databases.

If this perception is true, I think that I will *never* go to Vista,
until I replace all my computers in two years or more. I don't think
that it is worthwhile the effort and associated risk of reinstalling
all my work tools, databases, that they work today OK under XP.

Which is your opinion about? All my computers are less than one year
old.

Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

I would recommend you to stay with XP. If you are a superior game user and you really need eye rotating themes then you can find it in vista. vista in my view simply an front end to XP. it consumes too much amount of hardware. also if you really need it then use the vista transformation pack6, your PC will transform to vista. then download windows bit defender and IE7. now your PC will have a vista look.

never ever go for upgrade, its wise to have a safe install.

Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin] wrote:
> I have done an upgrade from XP Home to Vista Business and it was very
> problematic, driver issues and application compatibility.
>
> If you choose to do a clean install, it cannot be done with upgrade version
> of Vista, you have to purchase the full packaged product. A clean install is
> always the best route I say since it guarantees way less tweaking than the
> upgrade. And it does not take as long either.

Actually, you can do a clean install with an upgrade version of Vista.
Google it.

Alias

Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote:
> I've upgraded several computer to Windows Vista Business from
> Windows XP and have not encountered issues that could not be
> easily resolved. Windows Vista is far more secure and reliable then
> Windows XP.
>

Your ill informed opinion, not facts.

Alias

I upgraded XP Pro to Vista Business....not a single problem and it works
great to this day. Stable, and fast, although with Vista 2 megs of RAM
is almost a necessity.
Bill

"DominicM" <dominic_mahon@msn.com> wrote in message
news:%23ETMjusdHHA.4020@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> there is always a slight risk that some programs might "break", although I
> have upgraded to Ultimate I have not encountered any problems EXCEPT WITH
> MY GRAPHICS DRIVER now fixed.
>
> If in doubt take a image of the hard drive, so you can revert if needed,
> and give it a try...
>
> DominicM
>
> "Juan I. Cahis" <jiclbchSINBASURA@attglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:kpe7131r4ko5ioojb7cir1ja0cgkanir89@4ax.com...
> Dear friends:
>
> Is it dangerous to "upgrade" XP Pro SP2 to Vista Business?
>
> In another newsgroup, I asked about "upgrading" XP to Vista, and I
> received more than 12+ horrified replies telling me to never do that,
> nothing will work OK after an upgrade, etc. They tell me that the only
> possibility to succeed was to do a clean Vista install, and to
> reinstall, after that, all my applications and databases.
>
> If this perception is true, I think that I will *never* go to Vista,
> until I replace all my computers in two years or more. I don't think
> that it is worthwhile the effort and associated risk of reinstalling
> all my work tools, databases, that they work today OK under XP.
>
> Which is your opinion about? All my computers are less than one year
> old.
>
> Thanks
> Juan I. Cahis
> Santiago de Chile (South America)
> Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 18:14:46 +0300, "David Crisp"
<dcrisp@batelco.com.bh> wrote:

>IMHO - Stay with XP and see what happens.
>If it works for you...what real benefits are you going to get from the
>upgrade....?

I protest... Aero is so pretty. Doesn't everybody want a "pretty"
desktop and newer, bigger icons?