should i? would i? upgrade from xp to vista basic?

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im with you woody. ive been perusing these discussion boards to get a feel
for everyones experience with upgrading from xp to vista, and i gotta say
that most people are like you. unhappy with the results and looking for a
way to tweak it and make it right.
did you see the reply up above by Charlie42, who says there IS a way to roll
back to XP, from a vista upgrade?
he doesnt explain, but maybe he knows something we dont, hmm?
i replied to his reply and asked him to explain, so i will be checking back
in to see what he means.

so bro, i hope you can find a way to make your vista OS work properly.
if you find a fix for your issue, post it and let us know, would you?

thanks woody.
later
russell
 
Russell said:
charlie, your saying there is a way to put my operating system BACK to XP,
should i find to many conflicts with a vista basic upgrade?
would you help me understand how to do this?
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When you upgrade from XP to Vista, a folder named c:\windows.OLD is created
on your hard drive by the new OS. It contains the legacy OS and user files.
Should you decide to roll back to XP at a later time, the contents of this
folder will be used. Do not delete it.

Note 1: You must make sure you have the folder windows.OLD on the C: drive
of your new OS. Without it, there's no way of rolling back.
Note 2: Back up before you do anything else.
Note 3: Keep in mind that this method comes with no guarantees.

You use the Vista installation media to roll back, this includes some
command line work in Recovery. In short, what you do is to cut off Vista by
renaming its Windows folder to something else, enable XP by copying it's
folder back to where it belongs, restore the XP boot sector and boot.ini
file, and then reboot while holding your breath.

Take a close look at the step-by-step instructions in the link I gave you.
Print them out before you start a roll back:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933168

Charlie42
 
im with you woody. ive been perusing these discussion boards to get a feel
for everyones experience with upgrading from xp to vista, and i gotta say
that most people are like you. unhappy with the results and looking for a
way to tweak it and make it right.
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Whenever a new version of *anything* comes out, you always read about
problems with it, in newsgroups like this one. But realize two things:

1. If you're reading about problems *here*, this where people come
with their problems, not with their successes. You get a very
distorted view of what's going on in the real world here; as someone
once said, "hang around a transmission shop and you will think that
all cars have transmission problems."

2. Most problems, by far, that people report here have nothing to do
with defects in the software. They result from people's ignorance,
from bad or inadequate hardware, from old drivers, from viruses, from
spyware, and so on. And except for very rare situations, they always
get a fix for their problems, and in most cases, that fix is a very
simple one to implement.
 
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