How do I change Windows XP to vista?

DON'T.



There's your answer right there.How do I change Windows XP to vista?
Why would you want to go from a good OS to a terrible one? If you must upgrade, go with Win7...How do I change Windows XP to vista?
do you have a disc with Windows Vista on it? if you dont: get one



if you do: whilst running xp, insert the vista disc and select the upgrade or install button
1. Put the Windows Vista installation disc in the disc drive, and then start the computer.

2. Press a key when you are prompted.

3. Select a language, a time, a currency, a keyboard or an input method, and then click Next.

4. Click Repair your computer.

5. Click the operating system that you want to repair, and then click Next.

6. In the System Recovery Options dialog box, click Command Prompt.

7. Type Bootrec.exe /FixMbr, and then press ENTER.



That's it. Now when you reboot your PC, Vista will load automatically...
dont! Windows Vista sux..
Don't do that! Haven't you heard? Vista is plagued with problems. If you are having problems with XP maybe its time to reinstall it.
DONT DO THAT , vista is hopeless if you must , upgrade to vista for free and then to Windows 7 or just do a clean install off Windows 7 , DONT GO TO VISTA
For free, you don't.



There's downloadable themes that will make it LOOK like vista, for free.



I believe there are upgrade disks out there, not sure. if not, you will need to delete your entire hard drive, and install vista from a disk, which would be turning on your computer in xp, putting the disk in your commuter, shutting down, and starting it with the disk in. Then follow the steps, its not hard.



Vista is a nice OS once you get the service packs in. People that are anit-vista generally hopped on the band wagon of people that don't know what a service pack is, and/or are using a sucky machine, or are too lazy to relearn where stuff is. the thought of My documents being under the folder ';user'; instead of ';documents and settings'; scares them.



I do recommend 7 unless you have the vista disk already. skipping vista and going to windows 7 si a good choice, I've run 7 for a while, it is more efficient than xp and vista. I have 7 currently on a system with 512 mb of ram and penile 4 processor, cruddy graphics card. Vista won't touch it, xp laggs in it, 7 is happy.