Clean install or in place upgrade install?

-Michael

"A" <a@a.net> wrote in message news:%23AMn3wnRHHA.996@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>I upgraded XP Pro to Vista Home Premium. Using it to write this message
> right now.
>
> "Lakesidezx" <lakesidezx@nowhere.net> wrote in message
> news:5527EDAC-A946-4303-8F58-9F962EC8C943@microsoft.com...
>> It may not be news for some folks around here but it really gets my goat
>> when I go to the store and buy the Vista Home Premium edition upgrade
>> because the box says something like needs windows 2k, or xp or vista to
>> use this edition.
>>
>> Good enough, I have XP Pro on my computer so I buy it only to find out
>> later that vista tells me you have the wrong edition, if you want to
>> upgrade xp pro to vista then you need the vista business edition, not the
>> home premium edition.
>> Of course it gave me the option to do a fresh install (and I did) but that
>> was NOT what *I* wanted to do.
>>
>> Had I wanted the business edition of vista then I would have bought that,
>> but I didn't want that.
>>
>> Well......
>>
>> Back to reinstalling everything.
>>
>>
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