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Oct 6^th, 2007 at 10:41pm

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I'm wondering would be computer be able to handle Vista (I'm getting 2 gigs of RAM soon), and with Vista can I upgrade it without losing all my XP files like music, videos Undecided

And one last question can I play older games on Vista like ones pre-XP Huh

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Reply #1 - Oct 7^th, 2007 at 1:05am

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I actully have vista but went back to XP and much happier I like some things about it thought, My other computer is similar to yours and it does fine, once you add the 2 gigs of ram mine however is only a 9600xt card.

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Reply #2 - Oct 9^th, 2007 at 1:07pm

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One option is dual booting XP and VISTA. This is what I'm currently doing and the set up could not be easier.

For this you need a "full" version of VISTA, not an "upgrade".

Just create a partion on your boot drive and install VISTA on it. VISTA will automaticly take care of the rest.

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Reply #3 - Oct 9^th, 2007 at 1:11pm

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Keep It Simple wrote on Oct 9^th, 2007 at 1:07pm:

One option is dual booting XP and VISTA. This is what I'm currently doing and the set up could not be easier.

For this you need a "full" version of VISTA, not an "upgrade".

Just create a partion on your boot drive and install VISTA on it. VISTA will automaticly take care of the rest.

Make sure you have a large capacity HDD...Vista alone takes around 15GB...With FSX weighing in at another 15GB, you'll be filling up a 30GB HDD in no time Roll Eyes

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Reply #4 - Oct 9^th, 2007 at 5:07pm

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IMHO Vista causes lots of problems, i work for a software company, and vista just does stupid things when we try to do stuff with the software

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Reply #5 - Oct 10^th, 2007 at 3:42am

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stuart1044 wrote on Oct 9^th, 2007 at 5:07pm:

IMHO Vista causes lots of problems, i work for a software company, and vista just does stupid things when we try to do stuff with the software

Not surprised to hear that...
What else do you expect from a 80% new OS

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Reply #6 - Oct 10^th, 2007 at 4:22am

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We are starting to get clients who are using vista, and if they don't set to run as administrator it has a dickie fit.... that all topped of with the UAC setting Angry

I expect these will get ironed out, and we will begin to get used to it Roll Eyes

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