I had a similar experience with my E520.  The upgrade disk arrived at lunch time, I ran the Dell Upgrade Assistant and started Vista.  Then I cut the grass and checked, it was 40% complete.  I took a shower and then it was finished.  My biggest problem was finding the add/delete programs which is renamed in Vista. 

 

I agree that this was as easy as any operating system I have ever installed, and the Dell disk was a big help.  I think that many people who are posting have never had the experience of installing OSs before, the first time can be unnerving.  The other thing you said that is so important, follow the directions.

I just got the vista upgrade yesterday, then it installed the moment I received it. The Dell vista upgrade made things simple, as everything was automatic.

When I inserted the Vista upgrade CD, I did a clean installation and everything went well. it took about 1 hour for everything to be finish. And didn’t any receive any errors, so that’s good. Overall, Instillation is effortless, just fallow the directions as described in the manual, and everything will go down ok.

 

Well now that I got windows vista, I'm never going back to Xp. Vista is way faster and i love all the features. And since I did the clean install, the computer works like new, only now with vista. yay.

 

My system: Windows Xp Pro, XPS 410-Intel Pentium D 2.8, 1GB of Ram, 160GB HD, 7300 Nvidia Graphics card, 1024-768 screen

Hi,

 

I've got a xps410, E6300@ 1.85 ghz, 2 gigs of ram. 250gb sata II HD geforce 7600GT video card.

I have the Vista Upgrade disk and I have tried the upgrade, keep getting same error: Worker thread returned...URL........So my questions are....What do I do with the Norton security suite, disable or unistall? What about my pictures and documents and favorites? Also my applications, what becomes of them upon doing a clean install. I don't have many applications since my computer is only 3 months old. Could you help me out? I do have a Lexmark z605 printer and the Vista drivers are out yet, will my printer still work if Vista gets installed? Thanks in advance.

 

 

Roger1955

Vista is working well with me too. Despite a few program quirks. Everything is okay.

 

I just have Vista Basic though.

Thanks a lot!! One last question, I have NIS2007, It's Vista compatible, so do I just disable it while installing Vista or uninstall? Thanks again!!

Okey Dokey!

 

I gonna give it a go tonight when I get off work!

 

Thanks:smileywink:

To be sure that everything will go right, I would just uninstall NIS 2007 even thought it is Vista compatble, and install it, when you got vista all set up.

No problem here as well.  Did a clean install and am in the process of reloading all my software.  So far this too has been no problem.  I have a lot to learn about Vista it seems a great improvement.