Will upgrading affect user accounts?

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I am about to install Vista as an upgrade to WinXP.

My question is will it affect the user accounts in any way? Will I and the
other family members using the PC be able to log in OK and use all their
files etc no problem?

Also, on a similar note, will program installation settings remain OK or
will the upgrade require me to reinstall everything?

Jon
 
STOP IMMEDIATELY!!!

Do not install Vista as an "update" since it is
still Beta software. Microsoft ONLY recommends
a CLEAN install and on a NON-PRODUCTION system.

YOU RISK LOSING ANYTHING, OR EVERYTHING, YOU
HAVE ON YOUR CURRENT XP SYSTEM!!!
 
Regardless of wether you do a clean install or an upgrade, you will lose
everything on your disk, unless you install Vista on a seperate partition and
use a dual boot scenario.
 
Contrary to the other posters, I did an upgrade on my system without any
problems. I did not have more than one account on the system but I did not
lose anything and was able to still login. As a matter of fact it even
retained my wireless network settings and restored mapped drives on the
first boot.
 
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