vista-screenI wouldn’t have made the switch to Vista, but I’m taking a Vista class and thought it would be a good idea to actually get used to it instead of just reading about it. Like many others, I went out of my way to find a PC with XP installed instead of Vista.

I wanted to install Vista in a different partition while still keeping my XP for several reasons. Just in case something didn’t work and also in case I need it for a class or if someone had a question about I had to actually look at.

There are several reasons to upgrade to Vista. Vista is safer and more secure to use on the Internet than XP. User Account Control has received a bad rap, but it’s worth a little inconvenience to keep unauthorized programs you might get from the Internet or email from running and screwing up your computer.

Vista has been out for awhile and you can get some good deals on sites like ebay.

The best way to migrate slowly to Vista is to use a separate disk drive or partition you drive into different driver. This way you’re able to install Vista in one partition, while keeping XP in another partition and when you boot your computer, you choose which operating system you want to go into.
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