upgrading frm xp media centre to vista

I have a media centre laptop and will upgrading to vista have any problems?
and will i lose the functions of media centre or does vista have similiar
functions?
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Many Thanx

There is not guarantee that everything will work, that why its still in
beta. I would preferrably install Vista on a logical partition or a spare
computer. If you feeling like taking a risk, at least back up your data
before moving forward. Remember, once you upgrade, its a point of no return,
you can't uninstall Vista, you just have format it and reinstall XP.
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"andrewnottmuk" <andrewnottmuk@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a media centre laptop and will upgrading to vista have any problems?
> and will i lose the functions of media centre or does vista have similiar
> functions?
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> Many Thanx

I think the extenders built for MCE 2005 will have problems with Vista... if
you use an extender I would look into that before running Windows Vista.

josh
"andrewnottmuk" <andrewnottmuk@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a media centre laptop and will upgrading to vista have any problems?
> and will i lose the functions of media centre or does vista have similiar
> functions?
> --
> Many Thanx

It won't upgrade.

been there, didn't work


"andrewnottmuk" <andrewnottmuk@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a media centre laptop and will upgrading to vista have any problems?
> and will i lose the functions of media centre or does vista have similiar
> functions?
> --
> Many Thanx

Vista has media center built in. I did the upgrade on a Shuttle media center
and it is working fine...BUT I have standard devices which all have Vista
drivers Nvidia 6600GT video card, RealTek onboard audio, and an ATI 550
tuner.

Laptops often need specialized drivers which probably are not available yet
for Vista...

I would suggest against it.

"Leadfoot" <notspam@nospam.net> wrote in message
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> It won't upgrade.
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> been there, didn't work
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> "andrewnottmuk" <andrewnottmuk@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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