>I'm having my fun since last Tuesday (Vista Ultimate Giveaway at Heroes..).
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>Did an upgrade on my PC to Ultimate - seemed OK.
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>Silly me.....
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>I notice the Windows Update starting to act strangely. I was getting updates that WOULD NOT INSTALL! From MS themselves!! I believe they were 643 and another infamous one (don't remember off the top of my head). So, I tried every trick in the book on Google to fix it, and I got 1 of 3 to finally Install..... sigh... after a full day of it.
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>One of my main apps starting having problems too, so I wanted to go back and reinstall the software for it. When I popped the DVD in the drive, it did not setup. So, I went to Windows Explorer to run it. Could not find the DVD drive listed!!?????
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>Finally, I looked in Computer for my DVD drives... both were GONE!!! Kapoot!!! Totally Gone! Looked in Devices and they were still there, but the drivers were corrupted!! And I could not fix them! Everytime I uninstalled them, and then did a hardware search, it found the drivers, installed them, then told me they were corrupt....
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>I said, enough! I backed up the PC, then did a clean install of Vista and am installing the applications now. And the DVD drives are there now and working and updates work now.
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>Sigh....
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>What a nightmare, yes!
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>Moral... do a CLEAN INSTALL, NOT AN UPGRADE, or you will have many bad dreams!
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Always good advice. Upgrading an OS is just asking for serious trouble.

That said, I upgraded my laptop from XP Pro SP2 to Vista Ultimate the day after it was released on MSDN. Aside from problems with my A/V software which was supposed to be Vista ready but wasn't, the upgrade was painless. That upgraded installation is still my primary computer and works well (well for Vista that is - it doesn't crash at least). I had verified with Dell that my laptop was Vista ready or capable or whatever they called it at the time before I did the upgrade.




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