It would be cheaper than buying a new computer, and being that daylight savings will be march 11, this year, I'm worried about my computer- particularly that it wont reset the time, on its own. Of course, I'm also worried that my cell phone wont.
2007-02-22 08:38:01 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
As others have said in theory your programs and files should remain safe. HOWEVER, MS installs have been known to wipe out what they shouldn't. I would strongly suggest backing up anything important to you (not a bad idea anyway) before doing this. That way you will be safe either way. Why chance it? Of course I'm not sure why you would be thinking you would need to buy a new puter or OS....any reason?
And if you are only doing it for daylight savings time, I would suggest one of the fixes and waiting for a bit. I have found it is a very good rule of thumb with Microsoft to never get the first release of any OS. They always are buggy and problematic.
And I wouldn't be too worried about March 11th...if Y2k ended up with everything being fine, I'm sure at worst we'll just have to manually reset a few things.
2007-02-22 09:19:54 · answer #1 · answered by FineWhine 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is a critical update on Windows Update right now that updates your PC to the new Daylight Savings Time. You don't need to upgrade to Vista to get that. Vista has only been out for a month and is probabky still pretty buggy so it may not work with all of your programs. In theory you shouldn't lose all of your stuff if you upgrade, but just to be safe I would back up your data before you do anything.
2007-02-22 08:43:11 · answer #2 · answered by hllywood72 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Enabling daylight saving in Windows XP is very simple: double-click on the time in tray bar, a Date and Time Properties window should open. Go to time zone tab, check if the timezone is yours and also check the check-box that says "Automatically adjust clock for daylight saving changes"
2007-02-22 08:43:56 · answer #3 · answered by Radu C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Windows will guide you through the upgrade process if you ask it to. It may tell you some software will need replaced or repaired to work, but it will save your documents and files, and most likely, your programs.
2007-02-22 08:42:10 · answer #4 · answered by JayVee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did the improve for my mom and It immediately saved each and all the records on her vista device. confirm you study the handbook. in case you do a sparkling set up it is going to erase each and every little thing and initiate from scratch yet once you do an replace from the replace disk it is going to change issues over. sturdy success...
2016-12-14 03:22:14 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no ! jst install vista and choose upgrade instead of a clean install
2007-02-22 08:41:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋