Upgrading Vista in June 2007?

Dear Mocrosoft or anyone who knows. I finally managed to put a new partition
in my HD with a free tool in one of the PC magazines. This allowed me to
install Vista on the laptop. It is GORGEOUS.....indeed i have no real wish
to boo twith XP meantime, other than the fact that it will expire in just
under a year.

Cleverly Windows have a deal with eTrust to allow a similar 12 months of
virus software as well sa the Windows Firewall. Is the windows firewall now
strong enough?

Questions:
1) Do we get the choice of upgrading the Vista beta by BUYING a new key at
the end of the period? Or, do we have to clean install? This would mean
loosing the settings?

2) What is the RC1 released in the Autumn?

Thanks

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Cheers

Any help or advice would be appreciated

Remember that Windows Vista is a Beta, your must to install the final version in clean.

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Alejandro Curquejo
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
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"Poopsie" <Poopsie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:113F5893-741C-495F-BC94-0326A2D27988@microsoft.com...
Dear Mocrosoft or anyone who knows. I finally managed to put a new partition
in my HD with a free tool in one of the PC magazines. This allowed me to
install Vista on the laptop. It is GORGEOUS.....indeed i have no real wish
to boo twith XP meantime, other than the fact that it will expire in just
under a year.

Cleverly Windows have a deal with eTrust to allow a similar 12 months of
virus software as well sa the Windows Firewall. Is the windows firewall now
strong enough?

Questions:
1) Do we get the choice of upgrading the Vista beta by BUYING a new key at
the end of the period? Or, do we have to clean install? This would mean
loosing the settings?

2) What is the RC1 released in the Autumn?

Thanks

--
Cheers

Any help or advice would be appreciated

You will not be able to upgrade the Beta version of Vista to the release
version of Vista. You will have to uninstall the Beta version first. This
means you will have to back up your data and also reinstall all your
programs once the final version of Vista is installed.

--
Kerry Brown
MS-MVP Shell/User

"Poopsie" <Poopsie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:113F5893-741C-495F-BC94-0326A2D27988@microsoft.com...

> Dear Mocrosoft or anyone who knows. I finally managed to put a new
> partition
> in my HD with a free tool in one of the PC magazines. This allowed me to
> install Vista on the laptop. It is GORGEOUS.....indeed i have no real
> wish
> to boo twith XP meantime, other than the fact that it will expire in just
> under a year.
>
> Cleverly Windows have a deal with eTrust to allow a similar 12 months of
> virus software as well sa the Windows Firewall. Is the windows firewall
> now
> strong enough?
>
> Questions:
> 1) Do we get the choice of upgrading the Vista beta by BUYING a new key at
> the end of the period? Or, do we have to clean install? This would mean
> loosing the settings?
>
> 2) What is the RC1 released in the Autumn?
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Cheers
>
> Any help or advice would be appreciated

As a matter of course you ought to be storing your data on a different
partition anyway in order to better protect it. This has the added advantage
of making OS reinstalls a lot easier.



"Kerry Brown" wrote:

> You will not be able to upgrade the Beta version of Vista to the release
> version of Vista. You will have to uninstall the Beta version first. This
> means you will have to back up your data and also reinstall all your
> programs once the final version of Vista is installed.
>
> --
> Kerry Brown
> MS-MVP Shell/User
>
> "Poopsie" <Poopsie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:113F5893-741C-495F-BC94-0326A2D27988@microsoft.com...

>
>

I agree but when changing an OS it is sometimes better to backup and restore
so that NTFS permissions and SIDs are set. Even if not doing the restore
when reinstalling or changing an OS it is prudent to back everything up.

--
Kerry Brown
MS-MVP Shell/User


"Ian M. Walker" <IanMWalker@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:21EE9D1C-AFE8-41F8-8986-A185B5000D57@microsoft.com...

> As a matter of course you ought to be storing your data on a different
> partition anyway in order to better protect it. This has the added
> advantage
> of making OS reinstalls a lot easier.
>
>
>
> "Kerry Brown" wrote:
>