In article , Wayne Wastier wrote:

The reason I*ask is that upgrades are very tricky to say the least.

This is certainly the perceived wisdom for earlier versions of Windows
than VISTA but my understanding is that when VISTA does an upgrade
installation it actually does a clean installation and then transfers
applications and data into that clean installation.

If this is correct then it would explain why you can do a clean install
using an upgrade version of VISTA.

FWIW

"huwyngr" wrote in message
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In article , Wayne Wastier wrote:

The reason I ask is that upgrades are very tricky to say the least.

This is certainly the perceived wisdom for earlier versions of Windows
than VISTA but my understanding is that when VISTA does an upgrade
installation it actually does a clean installation and then transfers
applications and data into that clean installation.

If this is correct then it would explain why you can do a clean install
using an upgrade version of VISTA.

FWIW


Some people perform an upgrade of Vista over XP, and they have reported many
problems. And yes, you can do a clean install using an upgrade version of
Vista, but that is not what I was referring to.


Wayne

Rudolph, what is the size of the download? If it is less than 40MBytes then
you downloaded the wrong one. Your download is over 150MBytes.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/s... 53494&lang=en


Wayne

In article , Wayne Wastier wrote:

Some people perform an upgrade of Vista over XP, and they have reported many*
problems. *

Contrarywise I have not and I do support on Compuserve. It was abundantly true
for upgrading to XP but I've not seen reports of similar problems with VISTA
over XP.

... but that is not what I was referring to.

I know but I was referring to it as supporting that an upgrade installation
could well be a clean installation which is then "loaded".

"huwyngr" wrote in message
.. .
In article , Wayne Wastier wrote:

Some people perform an upgrade of Vista over XP, and they have reported
many
problems.

Contrarywise I have not and I do support on Compuserve. It was abundantly
true
for upgrading to XP but I've not seen reports of similar problems with
VISTA
over XP.

... but that is not what I was referring to.

I know but I was referring to it as supporting that an upgrade
installation
could well be a clean installation which is then "loaded".




CompuServe? Didn't they go out of business years ago? That company ripped
people off with 6.00 and up an hour access on slowpoke dialup. LOL

However, I was a beta tester for Vista from the start, and found 96 bugs.
I have been working with computers since 1983, have an IQ of 162, and I am
white and good looking. :0)


Wayne

Thanks for all of the replies. I reinstalled Vista and now it works.

"Rudolph" wrote:

I am also having problems with the install. I get to step 3 about 50% of the
way through and it has a fatal error. When I select the detail of the error
I get:
"hpzwrp01.exe -m dpinstxml_vista -l XXX -f X:\hpoins18.dat - Validate No dat
- Validate No = Application did not return ERROR_SUCCESS

Any thoughts? I have spent about 4 hrs with HP for them to tell me it is
vista. I have tried from both the CD and the on site download. I have tried
many things. It is amazing because it work great on an XP system I have at
home. By the way I am trying through a network. The printer is installed by
wire to the router.

Thanks

Rudolph

In article , Wayne Wastier wrote:

CompuServe? *Didn't they go out of business years ago? *

No but they are now web-based (run on Prospero) and free to access if you have
your own ISP.

That company ripped*people off with 6.00 and up an hour access on slowpoke
dialup.

That was the disastrous CS2000 which is not the Compuserve I'm talking about.
Compuserve access is free now.

and found 96 bugs.*

So few?

and found 96 bugs.

So few?


How many did you find that weren't duplicates? :0)

Wayne

None ..... s

"huwyngr" wrote in message
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None ..... s


ROFLMBO!!!! I like you. :0)


Wayne