Originally posted by: krotchy
Can you fix your grammar and break the questions apart so I can understand what the heck you are asking?
Exactly. :thumbsup:
A "dickhead" is a person who asks for help but doesn't have the courtesy to make his requests easy to read. As for tylerw13, I would point out that obsessive preoccupation with sex-related name calling may be indicative of other...problems... Generally, if you're going to insult someone, do it once and then STFU.
As for the OP's questions, upgrading Vista is very, very time-consuming. A typical clean installation took me about 20 minutes while an upgrade took me upwards of three hours on the same hardware. You see, Vista has a different user folder structure, so the upgrade process requires moving large amounts of data around, not to mention scanning for programs that are incompatible with Vista and could cause crashes--old virus scanners, disk partitioners, etc.
If you are trying to upgrade from a 32-bit OS to a 64-bit OS, you *must* do a clean installation. There is no upgrade option in this case.
If you can backup your data to a separate drive, a clean install is generally preferrable. Note that my upgrade (i.e. 32-bit XP to 32-bit Vista) did work fine, but I had to do a clean install later because I wanted to switch to 64-bit Vista.