Vista Upgrade

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If I upgrade my XP Pro to Vista can I still install my copy of XP Pro on
another machine?

TIA

SDR
 
SDR said:
If I upgrade my XP Pro to Vista can I still install my copy of XP
Pro on another machine?

TIA

SDR
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No - your XP license becomes part of the Vista one.
 
If you want to transfer your XP retail license to another computer you need
a full edition of Vista. If your XP came preinstalled then you cannot
transfer it to another computer anyway and you might as well pave over it.
 
Stay Away from VISTA until SP1. I'm telling you it's pure EVIL!!!! It
trashed my computer totally. It will restart every so often with NO
WARNING!!!! IE7 crashes more than IE7 in xp did which is more than I can
stand!!!!
 
Colin Barnhorst spake thusly on 1/18/2007 6:03 PM:
If you want to transfer your XP retail license to another computer you
need a full edition of Vista. If your XP came preinstalled then you
cannot transfer it to another computer anyway and you might as well pave
over it.
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It's stuff like this that gives Linux a good name....
 
That was your experience. By 'trashing' your computer, it sounds like you
did an upgrade. Due to the pre-release nature at this time, I'm guessing you
were using a beta version - a reasonable guess. That is what beta software
does. Sounds like you had a driver/compatibility issue - likely an
incompatible program still installed when you upgraded.

Compatibility issues will even out soon enough.

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What you are describing sounds like hardware problems. I'd check flakey RAM
and/or CPU overheating as possible causes for the spontaneous reboots and
crashes.
 
Stay Away from VISTA until SP1. I'm telling you it's pure EVIL!!!! It
trashed my computer totally. It will restart every so often with NO
WARNING!!!! IE7 crashes more than IE7 in xp did which is more than I can
stand!!!!
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Now had you had taken the simple precaution of imaging the system before
doing the upgrade or even backing up your data, or doing the upgrade
correctly, rather than doing an unintended custom install, you would have
had many fewer issues. Sorry but Vista was at fault.
 
Now had you had taken the simple precaution of imaging the system before
doing the upgrade or even backing up your data, or doing the upgrade
correctly, rather than doing an unintended custom install, you would have
had many fewer issues. Sorry but Vista was at fault.
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Lol..should be "Sorry but Vista was not at fault". My Freudian slip was
showing.
 
Harry said:
What you are describing sounds like hardware problems. I'd check
flakey RAM and/or CPU overheating as possible causes for the
spontaneous reboots and crashes.
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If that was so would not the same thing have happened on that PC when
running his previous o/s - WXP, presumably?
 
Not necessarily. Vista has a way of uncovering previoulsy undetected
hardware flaws. I saw reports during TechBeta on things just like this.
Other hardware, like Maxtor One-Touch drives worked fine on XP but refused
to on Vista due to firmware issues. And so on. Don't use what hardware
works on XP as definitive that it will work right on Vista.
 
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