Windows Vista Ultimate upgrade

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  5 stars

  Version: Windows Vista Ultimate upgrade

  "Very Impressed"

  by MJJOS on March 15, 2007

  Pros: New interface, interesting new features, The welcome center, DirectX 10 if you have a capable graphics card.

  Cons: Installation was difficult. I got it on DVD in a shop, and I tried to upgrade my 32 bit XP pro SP2 to Vista ultimate 64-bit, and it crashed during installation nearing the end on the final step. I tried 3 times, with the same thing each time, this happened while performing a clean upgrade, on a 2 week old PC. Eventually I tried installing the 32-bit version with an in-place upgrade, and it worked without any problems. However on the new Windows boot manager, I now have 3 corrupt versions of vista that won't start, and the vista that does work. That's all I didnt like about it. Since it was installation and not use of the OS I don't mind. Sure installation is obviously important, but in the long run I will be using it and not installing it over and over again. So I didnt mind, I am very happy with it.

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• reply by: danthyman69 on July 22, 2009

  Wow I have installed Vista about 15 times with no problems you clearly do not have a system capable of 64 bit processing. GOOD JOB>

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