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This article tells you how any retail upgrade DVD can be used as a fully
functioning full retail copy of Vista.

http://www.dailytech.com:80/article.aspx?newsid=5932

Bertfromnz wrote:
> This article tells you how any retail upgrade DVD can be used as a fully
> functioning full retail copy of Vista.
>
> http://www.dailytech.com:80/article.aspx?newsid=5932
>
>
Wide spread news now

The secret is that the setup program in Vista's upgrade version will accept an
installed copy of XP, W2K, or an unactivated copy of Vista itself as evidence
of a previous installation.

This enables you to "clean install" an upgrade version of Vista to any
formatted or unformatted hard drive, which is usually the preferred method when
installing any new operating system. You must, in essence, install Vista twice
to take advantage of this trick. But Vista installs much faster than XP, so
it's quicker than installing XP followed by Vista to get the upgrade price.

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