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Juan I. Cahis
Dear friends:
I have just installed Sony's Vaio Vista Business Express Upgrade
without any problem, but I have some questions.
The whole process took about 5 hours in my VGN-UX280P. Incompatible
drivers and applications where automatically uninstalled first, then
the Operating System was upgraded, and then all the Vista compatible
drivers and applications where installed, practically without any
personal intervention, excepting for many Eula's acceptance. Only
Acrobat Reader 8.0 failed to install, due to the UAC.
Please note that the DVD that Sony and Microsoft gave to their
customers when they bought their PC after November First 2006, as it
was my case, only accepted an upgrade installation, not a clean
install.
So, my experience was very good, but I have some questions.
1) I have a third party Virus Checker and spyware Checker
("SpySweeper"), should I totally disable Microsoft's "Virus Defender",
or at least partially? Is there any advantage to have both of them
active simultaneously?
2) I didn't uninstalled Microsoft's ActiveSync before the
upgrade, and I learnt after that its incompatibility with Vista. But
if I go to the Software Uninstall Control Panel Applet (it has a
different name under Vista), it shows Microsoft ActiveSync, but
without any button to uninstall it. And if I try to do the standard
trick in this situation, to install it again I order to uninstall it
immediately after that, Windows Installer refuses to install it
because of Vista's incompatibility. What can I do?
3) In Vista's Boot Manager appears the possibility to boot to the
"Old Version of the Operating System". Does it mean that the upgrade
process kept the old Windows XP installation? How can I delete it? I
assume that I will not have any interest to use and to maintain it,
specially if it cost me five or more Gigabytes of hard disk space.
Any hint? Thanks a lot in advance!!!!!
Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!
I have just installed Sony's Vaio Vista Business Express Upgrade
without any problem, but I have some questions.
The whole process took about 5 hours in my VGN-UX280P. Incompatible
drivers and applications where automatically uninstalled first, then
the Operating System was upgraded, and then all the Vista compatible
drivers and applications where installed, practically without any
personal intervention, excepting for many Eula's acceptance. Only
Acrobat Reader 8.0 failed to install, due to the UAC.
Please note that the DVD that Sony and Microsoft gave to their
customers when they bought their PC after November First 2006, as it
was my case, only accepted an upgrade installation, not a clean
install.
So, my experience was very good, but I have some questions.
1) I have a third party Virus Checker and spyware Checker
("SpySweeper"), should I totally disable Microsoft's "Virus Defender",
or at least partially? Is there any advantage to have both of them
active simultaneously?
2) I didn't uninstalled Microsoft's ActiveSync before the
upgrade, and I learnt after that its incompatibility with Vista. But
if I go to the Software Uninstall Control Panel Applet (it has a
different name under Vista), it shows Microsoft ActiveSync, but
without any button to uninstall it. And if I try to do the standard
trick in this situation, to install it again I order to uninstall it
immediately after that, Windows Installer refuses to install it
because of Vista's incompatibility. What can I do?
3) In Vista's Boot Manager appears the possibility to boot to the
"Old Version of the Operating System". Does it mean that the upgrade
process kept the old Windows XP installation? How can I delete it? I
assume that I will not have any interest to use and to maintain it,
specially if it cost me five or more Gigabytes of hard disk space.
Any hint? Thanks a lot in advance!!!!!
Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!