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Hi guys...
I will try to answer all questions here, but some of the advice you have posted since last night correlates to some advice I got from one of our company developers today. More on that in a moment...
AddRAM - Point taken. I suppose I am soured by my experience with the very high sound boards I use from Creative Labs. First, they had no Vista driver for them, then when I went to Win 7 on the first machine, they had no Win 7 driver and said "Use the Vista driver" and it didnt work - at all. Then about a month later, they came out with a Win 7 driver and I am happy to report there that it works well. But as I say, point taken - "suppose" to be a driver, got it.
As to your question "Why did you buy Enterprise?" (as well as Ultimate). I work for an MS Gold Partner and I got both copies at about 15% of normal cost - so I took them and figured, hey what the heck...
Layback Bear - As said, I work for a Microsoft Gold Partner so instead of using any text or MS based "Compatibility Manager" we have specialized software that checks a machine for compatibility. Both machines PASSED with flying colors. I have since reported to the software maker the problems I am having. So all in all, I (thought) I did my homework before diving into this conversion. As for your other queries - Yes, this is a CLEAN install thus far. Thats all I have done - no upgrades, but...
(To you all) - I got sent a link to yet another web site today that suggests the way to approach this is to Upgrade and NOT clean install. That is, my second machine's configuration has not changed (except increasing RAM to 4GB) since I bought it, and it ran Vista (32) fine for a few years, so if the devices worked then, run the upgrade and they will either update, or not.
I can reinstall Vista and go the upgrade path, so I am thinking seriously that this weekend I will undertake that project. Anyone have any reason to suggest that this is NOT the best idea I have so far? Many of you have commented that way, and to that I say thanks, but also take it as a further endorsement of that method.
Once again, thanks to you all.