How long did it take you to install vista? I'm reinstalling it right now and its been at the "Expanding files (27%)" stage for about and hour.
'Lock 0 Newbie Poster
Infarction 503 Posting Virtuoso
I don't know for sure how long mine took, but probably around an hour...
antioed 53 Posting Whiz
Vista is one bloated goat...it takes forever for just about anything. Throw RAM at it and the latest greatest hardware...you will be rewarded. Seems to really want a full GB of memory to really get the high performance experience...XP w/SP2 wanted 512MB RAM over 256MB (more like 384MB 256+128 at least) RAM that SP1 worked (not very well) with. Seems like every major revision means doubling the RAM.
InfktdGuitarist 0 Newbie Poster
From using the 'Dell Express Upgrade' from XP to Vista, it took me about an hour once I had all my files backed up. To log on and get all users set up, it took another half hour.
linux 107 Posting Shark
It took me about 2 hours to do a backup, a restore (to XP for a clean install of Vista), then the install.
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