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jellyrole
03-10-2008, 05:01 AM
If I buy the Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade Disc, and do the upgrade from XP, do all my personal files that I had in XP get deleted?
Miker
03-10-2008, 05:05 AM
I would recommend getting a full copy, and doing a 100% clean install. Things get messy when it tries to copy old XP drivers and stuff into Vista.
DemonicDerek
03-10-2008, 08:01 AM
Well, if you are a PC gamer, I have heard that xp apparently is better for it so I say:

DON'T UPGRADE... I MEAN DOWNGRADE! If it is the aero, then go download a patch that can make xp look like vista... my friend has this and he nearly fooled me. True vista is a resource hog (I know because I am using it). I will try to play a video game, but the freaking vista side bar hogs up almost half to 1/4 of my memory.

2GB of ram is a must FYI!
srpeters18
03-10-2008, 08:34 AM
Well, if you are a PC gamer, I have heard that xp apparently is better for it so I say:

DON'T UPGRADE... I MEAN DOWNGRADE! If it is the aero, then go download a patch that can make xp look like vista... my friend has this and he nearly fooled me. True vista is a resource hog (I know because I am using it). I will try to play a video game, but the freaking vista side bar hogs up almost half to 1/4 of my memory.

2GB of ram is a must FYI!

So close the sidebar. And if you right click it in the toolbar, you can even disable the launch on start-up.

Back on topic, you can upgrade without losing everything, but its still a good idea to back everything up first. But like Miker said, ideally, you'd be better off with a clean install.
Kougar
03-10-2008, 03:12 PM
If I buy the Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade Disc, and do the upgrade from XP, do all my personal files that I had in XP get deleted?

It depends on your choice of installation, however the standard upgrade install is designed to not affect your personal files.
Miker
03-10-2008, 06:07 PM
It depends on your choice of installation, however the standard upgrade install is designed to not affect your personal files.

Upgrade disks are a hassle. He is going to need to reinstall Vista so much and having a upgrade that takes longer to install isn't going to be fun.
PP Mguire
03-10-2008, 07:53 PM
Or he could just stay away from Vista.
willgetin
03-13-2008, 10:56 PM
There is no reason to stay away from Vista. :-) "It ain't that bad".
MrX
03-15-2008, 07:03 PM
I've been running vista x86 for 6 months now. It works great. I had initial problems with vista 64 and driver and game issues. I switched over x86 and works perfectly.
Dragon_CPU
03-25-2008, 11:02 PM
No if you upgrade your files will remain intact and the upgrade is not a bad process I have vista running on a system with 1gb ddr400 and a AMD 3600+ 939s X2 and it runs just fine with the 2600xt I have in it also. I on the other hand have Vista on my machine see SIG and its great I have no problem with resources or gaming as a matter of fact games look better while my 3dmark06 score did suffer a couple hundred marks loss it changed my gaming in no way as far as performance... Also Vista now has Service Pack 1 out and it addresses some issues.

the Vista scores are 5.6cpu 5.4memory 5.9graphics 5.9gaming 5.9HDD