I recently got my mums work laptop, and because it was a work laptop, it is restricted by all the settings and software and what not that the previous administrator used at my mums work. So if I upgraded from XP Professional to Vista Home Premium, would that delete everything? Allowing me to go on MSN and change the user-name and all that? Also, there is Windows Vista Home Premium Service Pack 1, and then there is the upgrade which is cheaper in most places. Can you only get the upgrade if you have the original? Thank you.

Am i able to just buy windows vista home premium upgrade software and install it on my pc thats currently running vista home basic..is there any set procedure i need to follow to upgrade successfully? I have checked my pc performance and its more than capable of running vista home premium

^ ^ so i’m gonna upgrade from vista to 7 and im wondering will I lose all my files?

i’ve got the disk but wondered how long it would take from loading the disk to be up and runnong with Winows 7?
I would like to do a clean install with the upgrade disk but don’t no how to back up my C drive.
Also Dell partioned the HDD and created a D drive with a back up version of Vista.