Is it time to upgrade older Computers to Windows Vista?
If you have ever upgraded Windows from an earlier version to a newer one – or re-installed Windows without a change of version, you will know that re-installing Windows is easily the easier part. The tough, time-consuming parts are (a) Updating Windows (b) Re-installing all your favorite programs (c) copying back all your data, if you have also formatted your Hard Disk, to re-install Windows. By data, we mean the following kinds of data: • Your Office suite data – Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations, etc. Your Music files – .mp3, .wma, etc Your Photographs collection – .jpg files, usually Your Address Book – the one you have painstakingly collected over the years and contains addresses, e-Mail IDs, Telephone numbers, etc., of your friends, colleagues and acquaintances Your old mail – you never know when you may need to refer to that mail you sent 6 months ago!! The fact is that while re-installing Windows itself takes less than 45 minutes, updating Windows could take up as much as a
