Windows XP Upgrade to Vista Detailed Steps

I’ve been writing an article about upgrading Windows XP users to Windows Vista, but I’ve been too busy at the moment, and I don’t have much time to calm down and write about this. Yesterday, I finally got a sigh of relief, upgraded the book, upgraded from XP to Vista RC1. Don't laugh, everyone, although I am doing software news, I really haven't personally operated Vista, hehe. When the system started, I was immediately shocked by Vista's beautiful interface, the crystal world! After some use, I found that the Vista after the upgrade is not perfect. Yesterday I have written a general experience and some advantages and disadvantages of the Vista system after the upgrade. Today, I will tell you how XP works. Upgrade to Windows Vista.

XP upgrade to Vista is roughly divided into three steps:

First, there is no King Kong turn, do not take porcelain.

Check that the hardware conditions meet the minimum Vista requirements, which is the minimum standard for installing an operating system or even installing a software. At present, before the official version of Vista is released, its hardware requirements have not changed much. I will talk about the hardware requirements of Windows Vista:

1. One is equipped with 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor.
2. 512MB of memory, or higher.
3. A hard disk with a size of at least 10GB or more, more than 5,400 rpm (of course, the current opportunity of this lower hard disk has been eliminated).
4. A graphics card that supports WDDM, DirectX 9 and Pixel Shader 2.0, and a graphics card driver that supports the Windows display driver model that can be used in Windows Vista.
5. A DVD drive.
6. Remarks: For more detailed hardware requirements, please visit the official Microsoft site: Windows Vista Capable PC Hardware Guidelines (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=54987)
   
   

   Here, the pigeon is a Lenovo Thinkpad T41 with 1.5GB of RAM, a 1.6GBPentium M processor and an ATI Radeon 7500 graphics card.
   

   Second, back up important file data
   

   Before upgrading to Windows Vista, you must back up important files. Although this step is optional, in order to prevent errors during the upgrade process, major changes to the computer or misuse, resulting in data loss. Otherwise, you can't cry too late.
   

   In order to keep important files in a safe place, you can use the following steps:
   

   1. Windows automatic backup, or third-party backup software.
   2. Copy important data to a network folder.
   3. Burn data to a CD or DVD.
   4. Move data to a removable storage medium.
      
      

      Here, because there are things in the books of the pigeons, there is no backup. But I still hope that everyone will make a backup, not to mention that the pigeons did not remind everyone 喔^_^
      

      Three, shotgun for cannon--XP to Vista
      

      Everything is ready, the following upgrade. Here, I started our upgrade with Microsoft's Upgrade Advisor tool, which reminds us which hardware or software components are not working properly after the upgrade. But I am a bit disadvantageous, the consultant tool reminds me that the following controllers need to be replaced: LPC (Low Pin Count) interface, I /O processor and AGP (accelerated graphics port) processor.
      

      I thought about it, try it first. So, I inserted the CD, all the way to Next, but after upgrading (recommended) here, after clicking Upgrade (recommended), it popped up a window, indicating that the upgrade failed, so I had to roll back all the way. Fortunately, after the rollback, the Windows XP system works fine.
      

      Hardware detection failed, forced installation failed, what should we do? I am not willing, carefully consider it - try to upgrade the BIOS. Because my BIOS is 04 years old. Holding the last hope, I went to the Lenovo homepage and downloaded a BIOS update patch to upgrade the BIOS of the notebook. After the upgrade, I re-run the Upgrade Advisor and the controller replacement warning still appeared.
      

      Halo, no, My God! Going out, I put the CD all the way to NEXT, unexpectedly, there was no hint in the upgrade process! After waiting for 2 hours, Vista was actually installed. After the restart, I can log in!
      

      After logging in to the newly upgraded system, I found that many of the original applications are not working properly. Those that are not very compatible with the system standards are not working properly: wireless network card, VPN client and Symantec Antivirus 10 and many more. I installed Cisco's VPN client for Vista, which was used for the network management period. It runs normally (it seems to be a software that is used by large companies, which is stable and compatible).
      

      The wireless network card cannot be used. It has not been found on the Huawei official website and the driver's home. Google found that the Vista upgrade center has an upgrade driver that supports the wireless network card. Therefore, the wireless network card is uninstalled, and then reinstalled. The upgraded version of the wireless network card driver is downloaded from Windows Updates. At this point, the wireless network card works normally.
      

      Symantec provided AntiVirus 10 for Vista Beta2, but because there is no serial number, there is no Google to crack version, so I have to give it up and let it go barefoot.
      

      After the upgrade, the original installation of Windows 2003 seems to have problems, but also had to give up. But what's exciting is that the default Firefox works fine, and the Google Toolbar that was originally installed for IE 6.0 sp2 works fine. It seems that Vista is doing a good job of compatibility with certain utilities.
      

      In addition, I found that after the upgrade, the performance of the machine has dropped - the Thinkpad's 1.6GHz processor and 1.5GB of memory are enough to run Vista smoothly. However, like most books, there isn't a good 3D graphics card, so Windows Experience only gave my machine a score of 1.0. As a result, Vista's glass effect could not be turned on. A big loss.
      

      Perhaps after the upgrade, what is most sad to me is what I see in the software browsing interface of the Windows Defender anti-spyware built into the system. In the interface, all the program icons are Windows. Icons of the XP era, and many of them cannot be recognized in Vista and are forbidden to run.
      

      Summary:
      

      Windows Vista is indeed an excellent operating system, beautiful interface, strong security, and high stability (the latter two are according to Microsoft) -! ). However, the upgrade from XP to Windows Vista is not perfect. The first is the compatibility of the original XP program, many of the original XP programs can not get a good run. In fact, it is the compatibility of the driver. At present, many vendors have not introduced hardware drivers for Vista. Afterwards, many XP or earlier operating system users cannot make a good transition to Vista. In addition, upgrading from XP to Vista is only a fixed version. For example, XP can only be a media center version. Other versions cannot be upgraded free of charge. This is also a flaw in Vista upgrade. Finally, I hope that the official version will be launched in January next year.