upgrade proceedure

[graphicg]

So, everytime you want to upgrade, you have to reinstall windows and all your programs?

 

[w7ox]

So, everytime you want to upgrade, you have to reinstall windows and all your programs?

No. Where'd you get that idea?

Phil

 

[Salamat]

No. Where'd you get that idea?

Phil

Is there any danger that in future upgrades, they might change the 'virtual hardware'? This could potentially cause Windows to reject an earlier activation, thinking it's installing on a different machine?

Salamat

 

[w7ox]

Is there any danger that in future upgrades, they might change the 'virtual hardware'? This could potentially cause Windows to reject an earlier activation, thinking it's installing on a different machine?

Salamat

Any thing is "possible". In fact the VM in v. 3 is changed from that of v. 2 -- making it difficult (at best) to downgrade from v. 3 to v. 2 unless you've saved a copy of your v. 2 winxp.hdd file (which gets "processed" as part of the upgrade to v. 3). But in upgrading from v.2 to v.3 I was not asked to re-activate WinXP.

Of course, Microsoft (M$) is really good at making the simple more difficult, so who knows what mess they will create for us in the future?

Phil