Vista Query

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Ok guys I bought a computer from a computer fair 2 years ago thinking that
it had an official version of XP on it only to find out last year mine was
blag which I asked about on here last year. I never went out and bought an
official copy of XP as I knew Vista was out this year so my question is, if
I where to buy an official vista upgrade with licence could I just install
over my unofficial xp which I presume would make me all legal.

Dave
 
Dragon said:
Ok guys I bought a computer from a computer fair 2 years ago thinking that
it had an official version of XP on it only to find out last year mine was
blag which I asked about on here last year. I never went out and bought
an official copy of XP as I knew Vista was out this year so my question
is, if I where to buy an official vista upgrade with licence could I just
install over my unofficial xp which I presume would make me all legal.

Dave
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No. Vista upgrade will only install over a legal WinXP SP2
 
Dragon said:
Ok guys I bought a computer from a computer fair 2 years ago thinking that
it had an official version of XP on it only to find out last year mine was
blag which I asked about on here last year. I never went out and bought an
official copy of XP as I knew Vista was out this year so my question is, if
I where to buy an official vista upgrade with licence could I just install
over my unofficial xp which I presume would make me all legal.

Dave
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Vista has been specifically designed to upgrade only genuine, validated
licenses of earlier operating systems. Anyway, a two year old computer
would be at the very bottom end of Vista hardware requirements; I
wouldn't even try it.


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Dragon said:
Ok guys I bought a computer from a computer fair 2 years ago thinking that
it had an official version of XP on it only to find out last year mine was
blag which I asked about on here last year. I never went out and bought
an official copy of XP as I knew Vista was out this year so my question
is, if I where to buy an official vista upgrade with licence could I just
install over my unofficial xp which I presume would make me all legal.
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I've seen XP offered for around $100 with a free upgrade to Vista. You might
be better off staying where you are.
 
Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:32:11 GMT from Dragon
Ok guys I bought a computer from a computer fair 2 years ago thinking that
it had an official version of XP on it only to find out last year mine was
blag which I asked about on here last year. I never went out and bought an
official copy of XP as I knew Vista was out this year so my question is, if
I where to buy an official vista upgrade with licence could I just install
over my unofficial xp which I presume would make me all legal.
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Same problem -- if you don't have a legal XP you have nothing to
upgrade *from*.

But I wouldn't be in any hurry to install Vista -- it needs more
memory even than XP, and there are no clear benefits.
 
so the guy did me over on that

I have a 2gig machine with one gig of memory, ati 9600 pro video card if
this helps

dave
 
so the guy did me over on that

I have a 2gig machine with one gig of memory, ati 9600 pro video card if
this helps
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Check your system specs against the requirements. Then decide.
Buy full version Vista since you do not have a valid XP to upgrade from.
 
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