seahawks_in_07 wrote:
> Does anyone know why the in place upgrade from XP Pro to Vista Home
> Premium isn't allowed? I don't understand why this upgrade path would
> not be considered a normal and common upgrade for most people and I can't
> figure out a technical reason for not doing it since they are both 32 bit
> and support NTFS.

There are features in XP Pro that are not in Vista Home Premium. Things
such as support for two processors, EFS and others that prevent a clean way
to do an in place upgrade from XP Pro to Vista Home Premium.

> Anyway, I did the "Clean" install last night on my XP Pro and it worked
> fine. It was a pain setting back up all the applications but whatever. I
> would think at the very least the folks at MSFT would have provided a way
> to migrate settings from my "windows.old" folder to the new installation
> after the installation was totally done but I couldn't even find a way to
> do that.

You could have used Windows Easy Transfer prior to doing the install to help
with some of this.

> On the bright side, I love the new interface and once I got my
> applications re-installed it works great. Only thing I need to learn to
> do is turn off the millions of warnings that keep popping up when I move
> "folders", install applications, etc.. A little too much if you ask me.

Once you get a feel for how security works in Vista and what is protected I
think you'll find those to be less annoying, or at least figure out how to
get the same things done without triggering them. App install and much of
the more advanced system configuration require you to go through a prompt,
but you'll soon have most of your apps installed and the system configured
so won't see those so much anymore.
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Tom Porterfield