Hi. I'be got windows XP Pro in portuguese with SP2, but I want to upgrade to Vista Business, but the vista is in English, so when I try to update it tells me that I can't because my Xp is in portuguese and vista that I want to install is in English. I can I solve my problem? I can't make a clean install because my Windows Vista CD it's onlyu an Upgrade.

I just recently installed Windows Vista, but I would like to reinstall Windows XP Media Center on my 2nd Hard Drive. I understand how to install XP on the 2nd Hard Drive, but I do not know how to switch between the two operating systems. Can anyone explain how this is done?

I started to create a recovery disk but it failed varification on the first dvd-r. Is there a reason why it is doing this?

After two weeks of reading windows vista installation NG the majority of the post have been negative on various issues in the installation process and became hesitant on buying the new OS. But on the up-side I have pick up a number of good tips for do's and don'ts, backed up all my important information, I have my laptop too get drivers and information, so I forked out $250+ for Vista Ultimate...

When I try to do an upgrade from XP Tablet, I get: "Windows could not configure one or more system components. To install Windows, restart the computer and then restart the installation" during the "completing upgrade" phase. I saw 2 other posts about people having this issue, and finding in the setuperr file that the problem was IIS. There's no mention of IIS in mine, though it does...

when i put my usb falsh drive ntohing pops up so i decided to go to its properties and when i did i press the readyboost tab but it said that "The device is plugged into an unsupported interferance" whatt does this mean how do i fix it

Hi :o I have a SCSI RAID controller (Dell PERC4E/DC) with 2 SCSI drives mounted in RAID0. While trying to install Vista (X86 or X64) on these (clean install), the setup keeps saying "Where do you want to install ?" without seeing my raid0 at any moment. Of course, I tried loading all the drivers I could find on the internet (from LSI and DELL) but without success. :confused:

How can I delete Maxtor OneTouch III registry entries so my Vista Upgrade won't be blocked? Nothing is in Add/Remove nor in Start. A search of the registry reveals a few entries. There are no Maxtor hardware devices finstalled. Registry entries are legacy from helping another Maxtor user format the external drive. Can I merely delete all Maxtor references in the registry and save? Error...

Read a lot re the installation problems with most other combinations. I can not find much about " my needs - XP Prof to Vista Business Upgrade". Two questions: 1) Is there a procedure manual to assist with installation? - I already purchased the Upgrade and have read the manual with it. 2) Any know problems - other than the standard "Upgrade Advisor Checks"

aero is not an option under appearance settings. I am running Ultimate and all other settings are correct

Howdy! I just purchased a HP with Vista and have been working at getting my software installed. All went well for Office 2003 and Adobe 5.0. BUT when I got to a piece of software for our companies Accounting Program Client it starts by Preparing to install and has two progress bars that go to 100% as usual and then it just dissappears!!! We install this software without problems on Win...

Greetings I installed Vista last weekend, and I can't get audio drivers to install. I have a compaq presario sr1020t with Real Tek ac'97. HP referred me to these drivers: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericSoftwareDownloadIndex?cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&softwareitem=pv-46380-1&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

hello, I have some questions about windows Vista, I have a Dell XPS 710 with 4 GB ram and dual cards of Nvidia Geforce 7950 GX2. 1-Should I install the retail version of windows vista or should I wait to get it from Dell (Is the Dell version technicaly better for my system like for example it may has additional drivers) ? 2- I have understood that if I bought the Vista Ultimate upgrade DVD

Hi, in December I brought Windows XP with the free upgrade voucher, will this voucher enable me to upgrade to Vista Home Basic for free? If so how would I do this online? Thanks in advance, Alex

hello all i have went to pricewatch.com and all oem version of vista ulimate are 199.00 to 230.00 bucks whats the diff from oem vs retal? i understand hardware diff but not software!

If Vista makes a mirror image of settings and applications as claimed if you do a install in place to save from having to reinstall your applications the following can't happen, but it does. You're probably tired of me saying I have lots of software. Well I do. After successfully installing Vista and doing a quick check of all my software to see if it was still running, guess I didn't check...

When I try to instal Vista Home premium (swedish) on RC1 it just say "can´t copy files" after 20% of the installation. Any ideas about the problem?

I keep getting this message when I try to authenticate. "no records found for given dns query". Can anyone just walk me through what i should do exactly.

just installed vista home premium. on my old xp machine i had 5 partitions, one for docs, one for pics, one for OS, one for temp files and one for music i seem to be making a mess of moving the docs, pics, music folders default locations from c:\users\rat when i move the docs folder, the music and pictures one goes with it. i get an option to move all other folders at the same time. i'm not...

One of my apps needs vb runtime 6 to work, I tried to install it in Vista but I get no conrirmation that the files have installed and when I try the app it keeps telling me to run VBRun60.exe as needed files are missing. Can I install VBRun60.exe in Vista? or do I have to wave bye to a very usefull piece of translation software?