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Default Upgrade or clean install with vista?
I know what most people think should be done but as I have read vista upgrade is completely different than the old versions of windows. It totally cleans out everything and gives you a clean install. Does anyone care to comment on this. It takes a lot longer to do the upgrade but in the long run it would save me at least 12 or more hours of reinstalling all the software on my computer.
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If you can sacrifice a fresh install you would be better off. If not you can take your chances and see what works and what doesnt after the upgrade.
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Have you tried an ugrade with vista yet? If it's not going to work with an upgrade why would it work with a clean install. If something doesn't work, it doesn't work.
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I've done both and upgrade as well as a clean install.

The clean install took a bit longer, but it seems to be more stable overall.

Just make sure when doing a fresh install to make a seperate partition for Vista so you don't install over XP.
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Why would I not want to install over xp?
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Also done both some of my older software stopped working but 90% of it still worked.
Both seemed pretty stable to me (this was using Ultimate Edition)

Oh and i also went str8 back to XP after about 2 hours because Vista seems to use way more resources and apart from a nice looking GUI sucks balls.

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Why would I not want to install over xp?
In case you have a problem, don't like Vista, hardware isn't supported, frame rates are terrible while gaming...

Any of the above.
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Not a big gamer here. More video editing and things like that? Do you have vista?
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