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Chapter 2
Windows Vista Upgrades and Migrations
Lessons in this chapter:
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Lesson 1: Upgrading and Migrating to Windows Vista . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Lesson 2: Upgrading Between Windows Vista Editions . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 73
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Lesson 3: Troubleshooting Installations and Upgrades . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Before You Begin
To complete the lessons in this chapter, you must have done the following:
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Completed the installation practices in Chapter 1, “Installing Windows Vista
Client,”
Lesson 2, “Installing Windows Vista.” The result of this practice is that
you have
installed Windows Vista Business on a personal computer or in a virtual
machine.
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To complete the practice in Lesson 1, you should have access to a Windows XP
com-
puter with Service Pack 2 installed. The optional practice involves
performing an
upgrade of a Windows XP computer, but you should attempt this only under the
circum-
stances outlined in the practice.
No additional configuration is required for this chapter.
Real World
Orin Thomas
Recently, I was asked by friends and family who have computers that are a
couple of
years old but still meet the recommended requirements for Windows Vista and
who
want to get Vista, whether they should upgrade their current operating
system to Vista
or buy a new PC and migrate their data. To answer this question, I take a
three-year view.
I ask myself, “How will they be using their computer in three years time?”
My brother-in-
law, who loves to play computer games as much as I do, would be better off
getting a new
computer that runs Vista and migrating his data. If he upgraded his current
computer to
Vista, given the type of games he likes to play, he’d probably need a new
one within 18
months anyway. If I recommended that he upgrade his current computer, he
would end
up buying Vista twice and still have to perform the migration of data to his
new com-
puter! My neighbors, on the other hand, do not do anything other than a bit
of e-mail
and word processing. If they wanted Vista, perhaps because they want to use
Media Cen-
ter or really like Aero, I’d recommend that they upgrade. It is highly
likely that they will
still be happy with the performance of their current hardware in several
years time—
something I am sure would not apply to my brother-in-law!
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