Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Installation Choices for Windows Vista

Windows Vista support team have released Knowledge Base (KB) articles on various installation choices for Windows Vista 32 and 64-bit for those who wants to upgrade and/or install Vista from Windows 2000 , Windows XP.
Installation choices for consumer versions of Windows Vista (32-bit only): KB932616
Which talks of various installation choices, upgrade /custom installation as:

Installation choices for Windows XP Home and Windows XP Home N Edition
Installation choices for Windows XP Professional and Windows XP Professional N Editions
Installation choices for Windows XP Tablet Edition
Installation choices for Windows XP Media Center Edition
Installation choices for Windows 2000

and the other is
Installation choices for 64-bit consumer versions of Windows Vista: KB932795
This is about various installation choices as:
Installing a 64-bit version of Windows Vista on a computer that is running a 32-bit version of Windows XP or of Windows 2000
Installing a 64-bit version of Windows Vista on a computer that is running Windows XP Professional x64
Installing a 64-bit version of Windows Vista on computer that is running a 32-bit version of Windows Vista
Installing a 64-bit version of Windows Vista on a computer that is running a different 64-bit version of Windows Vista

And there's is another KB article
You cannot upgrade certain language versions of Windows XP to Windows Vista
that describes the versions of Microsoft Windows XP that you cannot upgrade to Windows Vista because of language pack issues between the two products. This article also describes how to perform a custom installation of Windows Vista to work around this issue.

SO these articles will be very useful for those having some issues while upgrading their existing OS, windows 2000 or Windows XP to Windows Vista Or trying to install Windows Vista.
Thanks to Windows Vista support team.

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