Will upgrading affect user accounts?

Regardless of wether you do a clean install or an upgrade, you will lose
everything on your disk, unless you install Vista on a seperate partition and
use a dual boot scenario.

"Rick" wrote:

> STOP IMMEDIATELY!!!
>
> Do not install Vista as an "update" since it is
> still Beta software. Microsoft ONLY recommends
> a CLEAN install and on a NON-PRODUCTION system.
>
> YOU RISK LOSING ANYTHING, OR EVERYTHING, YOU
> HAVE ON YOUR CURRENT XP SYSTEM!!!
>
>
> DJjay wrote:

> > I am about to install Vista as an upgrade to WinXP.
> >
> > My question is will it affect the user accounts in any way? Will I and the
> > other family members using the PC be able to log in OK and use all their
> > files etc no problem?
> >
> > Also, on a similar note, will program installation settings remain OK or
> > will the upgrade require me to reinstall everything?
> >
> > Jon

>

Contrary to the other posters, I did an upgrade on my system without any
problems. I did not have more than one account on the system but I did not
lose anything and was able to still login. As a matter of fact it even
retained my wireless network settings and restored mapped drives on the
first boot.

"DJjay" <DJjay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A66F183F-7B60-4F6C-A8F8-96CE94E74A4C@microsoft.com...

>I am about to install Vista as an upgrade to WinXP.
>
> My question is will it affect the user accounts in any way? Will I and the
> other family members using the PC be able to log in OK and use all their
> files etc no problem?
>
> Also, on a similar note, will program installation settings remain OK or
> will the upgrade require me to reinstall everything?
>
> Jon