"seahawks_in_07" wrote
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> 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.[/color]

Same reason you couldn't do a in place upgrade from Windows 2000 to XP Home.
The feature sets are significantly different. Items that are supported in
the qualifying OS are not supported in the upgrade OS.
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> 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.[/color]

You could have / should have used the Windows Easy Transfer (WET) to run on
the computer with XP before doing the upgrade. It is a very nice utility
and will migrate data and settings. It is very customizable. Run WET on
Vista after the upgrade to complete the migration.

You can move some of the data manually. It takes a lot of work, though,
compared to WET.
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> 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.[/color]

This will become less intrusive after you get things set up. I get very few
UAC prompts now. I recommend you run in an account as a standard user.



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Rock [MVP - User/Shell]