Will upgrading affect user accounts?

[Guest]

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

 

[Rick]

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!!!

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[JEC]

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.