Is there a clear benefit to using NIS2013 over NIS2012 on Vista-64 SP2 machines? Does NIS2013 work on this type of machine?
I curently have a Dell XPS desktop with Vista-64 SP2 and NIS2012 and things are working fine. I used to have an old Dell Inspiron 8100 with XP SP3 that was running NIS2012 without problems and tried to upgrade it to NIS2013. After repeated crashes, unsuccessful trips though AutoFix, Power Eraser, Norton Remove and Replace, LiveUpdates and reboots, the hard drive failed with audible clicks now will not boot. Since I am now down to a single machine, I do not want to jeapordize it too if NIS2012 is good enough.