Upgrading Old XP To Vista. Work?
Mar 5, 2009
I got a computer in Dec of 2006. 3 months later a Vista upgrade disk came in the mail. I have had it ever since. I use this computer to store stuff and try new programs ect. I am wondering how much I will regret upgrading with this free disk. The system has a Pentuim 4 3.1 G CPU and only 512MB of RAM. I would really like to put vista on it but....512 MB of ram is not the 1GB they recommend. Is anyone running a system like this? What will happen? Will it just run slow and not have Aero because the graphics are not up to par either or will there be other problems?
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Jun 27, 2008
According to the vista pages on the microsoft site, you cannot "upgrade" from
a 32bit XP to a 64bit vista, and must do a clean install, but it is ambiguous
as to what upgrade means. Does this mean that an original install version
(much more expensive) must be purchased, or can the upgrade version be used
on a clean hard drive as long as the XP key or whatever is put in to make it
recognize that you are upgrading?
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Nov 22, 2009
Would I still be able to do the upgrade even though I was never able to get
SP 1 or SP 2 installed on my laptop?
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Jun 22, 2007
I’m preparing to install Vista Premium on my custom built pc (already installed XP Pro a month ago), the specs are more than adequate for this OS but I’m concerned about what possible, perhaps unforeseen issues that may arise during this upgrade. So my question is, what issues might I encounter during the upgrade, and what precautions might I take to avoid such occurrences?
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Sep 24, 2009
I am having a bit of a problem upgrading from xp to vista. I currently have windows xp media center and am trying to upgrade to vista home premium using the upgrade version. Basically whenever I get to 27% of the 'expanding files' process on the installation i get a message which says 'windows cannot prepare the computer to boot ino the next phase of installation. to complete installation, please restart the wizard' or words to that effect.... I have tried opting for a clean install or an upgrade and get the same problems every time. I have run the upgrade advisor and it says everything is fine apart from my network card which needs the 'driver'
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Mar 10, 2008
I have read a lot of threads in the forums to try to get to the bottom of my issue, but I have not found a true answer. I am running XP Pro and trying to upgrade to Vista Ultimate. I have ran the advisory many times and it stated my computer is ok.
No issues were detected for these system components. The following table contains system components that meet the minimum hardware requirements needed for Windows Vista.........
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Jun 6, 2009
Since the computer installed the SP2 Vista (VU) i'm getting this message Failed extract of third-party root list from auto update cab at: with error: A required certificate is not within its validity period when verifying against the current system clock or the timestamp in the signed file. and the ms web site 'Event ID 11 ??? Automatic Root Certificates Update Configuration'
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Mar 23, 2008
I just recently upgraded to Windows Vista. All my olf files were saved to a folder on the same computer. How do I reinstall these programs such as Nortan Internet Sevurity? I tried to use Windows easy transfer but you can only do it from one computer to another and not from the same computer?
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May 11, 2009
I thinking about upgrading my current 32 bit Vista Home Premium to 64 bit Vista Ultimate. Is this possible to go form 32 to 64 bit.
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Jun 16, 2009
Is there anything I need to do before upgrading my Motherboard in Windows Vista? I know it used to be a pain in the butt in XP. I have a fully licensed copy of Vista (meaning not OEM). The upgrade will be happening this upcoming weekend.
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Jan 29, 2007
The Vista Upgrade Advisor tells me that I will have to uninstall Nero before upgrading to Vista. I have seen some posts in which writers complained that they were unable to re-install Nero after the installation. I thought that Vista has a built-in CD/DVD burner.
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Mar 8, 2008
I'm thinking of upgrading my workstations to vista, but my question is, what's the benefit? I've worked in IT for awhile now and seen some great improvements in operating systems over the years. Upgrading from 2000 to XP, there was a clear benefit, but I can't see one from XP to vista. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy with vista, but I don't want to have to go through the hassle of imaging about 2,500 workstations if i don't have to.
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Jul 29, 2009
Trying to upgrade my new Toshiba Satellite laptop from 64 bit VISTA Home Premium to 64 bit VISTA Ultimate Have plenty of space on C: drive - 150GB with approx 50GB used and 100 GB free
While in Home Premium, I insert and run the VISTA Ultimate CD Select upgrade I have it connected to internet so it can retrieve updates. It goes though the process of upgrading but ends with a message similar to Windows could not configure one or more system components. It then reverts back to Home Premium. I have tried performing the upgrade both before and after installing updates to Home Premium- no difference..........
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Jul 1, 2008
I have been wracking my brain for weeks now, trying to play C&C First Decade with Red Alert 2 Yuri's Revenge over the LAN, it will only run on IPX networking which I could setup with 2x XP machines, I have Vista Ultimate on my PC, and XP on another, I found some drivers for IPX to work on Vista, didn't work ... So I loaded Hamachi which had built-in IPX support. Now when I open RA2, it no longer says IPX unavailable, it shows 00 00 00...
So it can see my Hamachi adapter with IPX support, great! The other XP machine has Hamachi installed, and they are both VPN'd (Connected) on the same Hamachi Network. They don't see each other... The XP machine shows a few IPX networks, I have tried switching to them all, even put the Hamachi adapter and the LAN adapter to the top of the preferred networks list. This was sort-of a breeze with both XP, but with Vista it's looking to be a bit tricky. I have no firewalls running on either machine and I am pretty cluey when it comes to networking (TCP/IP that is).
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Mar 26, 2008
I recently tried to upgrade from Vista Basic to Vista Premium but the activation key didn't work. So I recovered Vista Basic from the windows.old file but there is still a corrupt version of Vista Premium on my hard disk. how to remove it?
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May 11, 2008
My eight year old Dell finally bit the dust and bought a new Gateway preloaded with Norton AV. I have a paid subscription through 01/09 with Windows One Care that I have used for three years with my Dell and never had problems with it. I have always disliked the hoggy Norton and McAfee AV's and will uninstall Norton on the new pc using the uninstall download from Symantec and probably some manual removal as well.
My question is : will WOC work with Vista?? Or should I use some of the free AV's ie Avast, AVG free, etc etc. My pc is only two days old and I don't want to spend days attempting to download new programs and fight with firewalls and potentially messing up new pc.
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Mar 23, 2008
I have tried everything possible to get my HP PSC 500 to work with Vista, I had no problems with XP. The driver is there, but it presents an error when I go to print. I have contacted HP and they tell me because my machine, which is in perfect working condition, is 5 yrs old it will not work with Vista. I find this totally unacceptable and would like to find a solution to this other than spending more money unneccessarily to get a 2nd printer that I don't want
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May 14, 2008
I've been dealing with this horrendous excuse for an email program for about 2 months now (thus my display name. my new computer came with Home Premium VISTA. I'm seriously thinking of getting my old original copy of XP installed back in my computer at some point. I'd do it myself, but I want to make sure I don't lose anything in the process. I've lost enough because of this fiasco already.
1) I can no longer use a rather expensive program that I bought to build web sites for small businesses (so therefore this also had a direct impact on my income as well as my frustration level). It won't work with Windows VISTA (because it's not a Microsoft product, of course).
2) I receive most email, but I have to check the spam folder constantly -- since I work online from home, and receive a good bit of business email at home that will often contain links, etc., VISTA reads it as "phishing" email and dumps it. And some it seems to dump in there for absolutely no reason at all...........
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Mar 23, 2008
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May 8, 2009
i'd like to put my shadow copies on a different disk. anyone know how? details: event log tells me that shadow copies are having trouble finding space, and getting deleted. my intuition tells me a shadow on its own volume sounds incestuous. better on a different disk. just like pagefile. searching, i found vssadmin add shadowstorage /for=c: /on=t: /maxsize=10g but it doesn't work on vista sp1. what's that about? perhaps it's in the registry somewhere? anyone know...?
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Oct 20, 2009
Vista Home Premium 32-bit. I understand my ISP only uses IPv4 - Virgin Media Anyway, name resolution does not work in Vista. I operate a LAN behind a router - GTA GNAT 3.42.This is merely a debian linux router kernel with features like HA (high availability et al). I use a PIII Coppremine, 512MB, CompactFlashCard with linux image, 3Com 10/100 PCI on the public interface, 4 Port SMC 10/100 and 2 Port Intel Pro/100. I have no problems with Win2K and Win XP Pro. I can ping and tracert domain name(s) with no problems (Win2K/WinXP);
Unable to do this in Vista.Disabled Vista Firewall for testing. Disabled (unchecked) IPv6 and discovery components on network connection. Disabled IPv6 in registry with DisableComponents FF patch i.e. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSet Services cpip6Parameters Disabled IPHelper service in services. Disabled DNSClient in services (to eliminate cache issues).Tried another NIC in the PC, a 3Com with correct drivers.Still cannot resolve domain names but get IP addr etc. Removed 3Com NIC. Onboard NIC - nVidia - Vista installed nVidia driver at install. As boths NIC fail DNS resolution, assumed not a NIC issue. Network Type - Workgroup (not connected to domain)....
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Apr 15, 2008
Does any one know if this new dotNetFx35setup.exe work on vista 64?
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Jun 30, 2008
I see that Microsoft is not going to offer XP any longer. Do they have any plans to get Vista to work with Outlook? I have Outlook 2000 and I have to enter the password each and everytime i log on, it is aggrivating. I am looking for another email program that has the tasks, that are as easy to use as Outlooks.
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Oct 14, 2009
How do I get COMDLG32.OCX to work in vista?
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Jul 4, 2009
is there another programe that works with vista as when i tryd to load this i get only for x86 what ever that means.
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Apr 29, 2008
Is there a version of WinFax or another faxing software that will work with Vista?
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Jul 2, 2008
My Vista pc will not work with webcams in general, my son has the same pc and has not problems with the same web cam or any other web cam and software. It just seem to be my pc, is there any setting. I've tried different software and drives on my pc and have tried a life cam from microsoft and still no luck. Both pc are more then capable to cope with the job at hand.
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Feb 13, 2008
I've done a lot of searching tonight so I know I'm not the first one to have this issue, but I haven't found any kind of satisfactory solution. Here is my situation: I have an HP Pavilion 6716 laptop with Quanta 30CC 79.26 mother board with a bus clock of 533 Mhz. I currently have two DDR2 PC2-5300 1 GB sticks of RAM in the machine (from factory) and all is well. I confirmed with HP that my machine can handle 4GB so I got two DDR2 667 2GB sticks of RAM (Kingston). If I put either one of the new sticks of RAM in I have no problems (first or second slot, makes no difference). But if i put both in I get the BSOD and first a PFN_LIST_CORRUPT error, then a reboot and then a IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error and that's all she wrote. Put back the original RAM and all is well. I've read all about the MS KB929777 and I've uninstalled the patch then re-installed and it made no difference. Is there anything anyone can tell me or am I just shafted at 2GB RAM?
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Jul 17, 2009
I have an ACER Aspire 6920 laptop that I have been getting issues correct on it for that past two months with no help from ACER. The BIOS was extremely out of date and could have been contributing the issues I had been dealing with. The download of the BIOS update came with WinPlash that would not work on this Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit OS. After going many round with ACER both online and over the phone I had to seek other help. I went ahead and tried using biosagentplus.com along with their tech support at www.esupport.com and eventually they were able to provide me with a version of WinPhlash that would work on my OS. Here is a couple of links to the latest versions of WinPhlash...... I hope this may help someone that is dealing with the same frustration as I did in getting a BIOS updated. It is always good to keep your BIOS updated! It assures compatibility with your OS, driver updates and it helps to extend the life of your PC or Laptop! It is a very simple matter to do and most new systems have utilities that will download software packages that all you need to do is follow the instructions. You do need to have the proper utility for your OS and BIOS that is on your system and websites Otherwise don't do it yourself unless you know what you are doing and getting yourself into or you could render your system unusable. Even if you are a tech like myself, it a BIOS flash utility doesn't seem to work right on your OS, don't force it and get a newer version. You made need a newer version then what the manufacturer of your system is providing just because you have kept current on OS updates and they have not with the BIOS flash utility.
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Mar 29, 2009
I have a Canon iP4200 which will NOT work on Vista Home BASIC desktop, but will work on my laptop which has Vista Home PREMIUM. The Home Basic is a clean install, virgin hard drive, new computer, etc. Vista Home Basic FAIL: Ran setup file iP4200vst200ej.exe from Canon support site Connected usb from printer to computer powered on printer Vista recognizes it as ip4200 and says it is ready Print test page ? printer makes some noise like it is going to start but fails and shows ?An error has occurred when printing the following print job. Click Cancel to stop printing........so can I manually somehow change the config on the Vista Home Basic computer to use the drivers CNB*.dll which work correctly on my laptop,instead of the CNM* files that aren't working?
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Feb 19, 2009
I searched, but couldn't find anything "on point."
I have a USB Logitech mouse. For reasons too lengthy to get into here, I want to hook it up via PS2.
So, I hooked it up with an adaptor. On bootup, the computer appears to recognize the mouse, as PS2 detection is enabled in the BIOS and the mouse's red light comes on.
However, when I get to my login page of Vista, the mouse doesn't work to control the pointer, and the red light is off. Even when I used the keyboard to just hit enter and log in as the "guest," the pointer will not respond when I got to the desktop.
Do I need to 'activate' the PS2 in Vista somehow?
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