"Rod" <Rod@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4B18F3B6-F3FE-4F4C-9328-AD1BD4E8101E@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> tks Chris. Appreciate your answer. Still, as a new O/S that all I really
> need
> it for is Internet, MS Office and CD/DVD playing/burning, Vista Home
> Premium
> seems to be an ideal "downgrade' for me, but one I cant get!! I gotta go
> the
> Ultimate....[/color]

Then it sounds like you didn't really need XP Pro, XP Home would have
sufficed. There are features in XP Pro that are missing from Vista Home
Premium, thus the need to do a clean install rather than an in-place
upgrade.
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> Or maybe I am just reading things wrong.....IF I BUY the UPGRADE VISTA
> HOME
> PREMIUM I CAN, FROM within WINDOWS XP, run a CLEAN INSTALL - right? IF so,
> that seems OK...I just dont want to have to reformatt myself manually from
> DOS as a start....not that competent!![/color]

Yes, that is correct. It will walk you through the process so no need to
worries. Once the install is complete your old XP install will be in a
folder called Windows.old. Once you are sure you have all data restored in
your Vista install and want to keep that, you can delete the Windows.old
folder.
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Tom Porterfield