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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.
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>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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Probably a lot of my trouble was my fault.... running registry cleaning tools on it (while XP was on it) probably hosed it to where the upgrade could not work. If it had been "clean" it might have worked... sigh... .but I won't know now....