Does anyone know if this Upgrade exploit performs as well as installing the full version of Vista clean, or if there is performance hindrance because it is essentially upgrading the upgrade. Thanks
You are not upgrading an upgrade. The first install is a "clean" full install. You can only use this for 30 days and it will stop working. You are "upgrading" only in the sense that when you activate it, Microsoft sees that you are activating the upgrade product.
The clean install means simply that there is nothing cluttering up your registry with artifacts from the previous XP (or other) installation.
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Does anyone know if this Upgrade exploit performs as well as installing the full version of Vista clean, or if there is performance hindrance because it is essentially upgrading the upgrade. Thanks
You are not upgrading an upgrade. The first install is a "clean" full install. You can only use this for 30 days and it will stop working. You are "upgrading" only in the sense that when you activate it, Microsoft sees that you are activating the upgrade product.
The clean install means simply that there is nothing cluttering up your registry with artifacts from the previous XP (or other) installation.