I just recieved my Vista upgrade from dell (2 months after promised).
I want to know if it is stable enough to make the move up yet. I would hate to upgrade and find out that something doesn't work right then go back to XP and have to reload all of my programs.
anyway, I am playing BF2 and will be playing HL2 and CS:S, also, I dont have a great internet connection yet, and getting vista updates might be a problem... any advice?
Upgrade now or later?
From what I have seen, most games work on vista so there should be no gaming problem; the catch is Vista eats up a larger portion of your pc's power compared to XP, thus the performance in those games will decrease, the amount of fps you lose depends on your computer specs.. for example I don't get much FPS on my computer so if I upgraded to vista playing games will not be possible unless i upgrade my ram + graphics card
Allright, after nearly pulling out all of my hair, I got vista to install without any errors. There are a few things that will not work, example, I cant test the performance of my PC without errors, and the gadgets dont work.
Im also having trouble setting up a dial up connection. When I open network connections, and then set up a new connection, it freezes and explorer has to restart.
Is there a way to completely wipe my HDD with a fresh install of windows XP so I can re-upgrade to vista? When I ran the XP reset it did a new install, but kept all of my old programs and files in the windows.old file. I have a feeling that some sort of error in my drive or something is causing some errors in the new install.
I only have one hard drive, so installing both is not an option, and my vista is an upgrade from dell, so I dont really have the full install.
Edit: I figured out how to boot from the disc, so I am now formatting the drive for a fresh install of XP
Im also having trouble setting up a dial up connection. When I open network connections, and then set up a new connection, it freezes and explorer has to restart.
Is there a way to completely wipe my HDD with a fresh install of windows XP so I can re-upgrade to vista? When I ran the XP reset it did a new install, but kept all of my old programs and files in the windows.old file. I have a feeling that some sort of error in my drive or something is causing some errors in the new install.
I only have one hard drive, so installing both is not an option, and my vista is an upgrade from dell, so I dont really have the full install.
Edit: I figured out how to boot from the disc, so I am now formatting the drive for a fresh install of XP