Upgrade From Windows XP Home To Win-7 Home Premium

Oct 26, 2009

Do I need an upgrade version of Win-7? if so, which? Or do I simply wipe off WinXP and install a Win7 Home Premium full fresh install?

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Upgrade Home Basic To Home Premium

May 22, 2008

I understand this can be done online. The information says that I need the Anytime upgrade disk to complete the process. Is this so? Sorry to be stupid but need to know the steps involved. If I dont have an anytime upgrade disk, how do I get one?

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Windows Home Premium Upgrade

Mar 26, 2008

My computer crashed. I re-installed HP Recovery Disc & Windows Anytime Discs - all seemed well. Then it started telling me I needed to - "Activate Windows in so many days or it would (I believe it said) become inactive? Which it did I'm now back to just Windows Home Premium.

Does this mean I have to fork out more money? and I guess and can't even just get the upgrade this time around can I? because I'm already on the Home Premium? I fairly new at all this. I'm not a computer tech, just a someone that has a homebased computer.

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Mar 23, 2008

I purchased from Staples (07/05/2007) the Windows Anytime Upgrade disc to go from; Windows Vista Home Premium to Windows Vista Ultimate. (This was all from from a complete witch over from Windows XP to begin with as I bought a new computer system. Which, quite truthfully has been nothing but frustrating and headaches right from the beginning).

My computer crashed. I re-installed HP Recovery Disc & Windows Anytime Discs - all seemed well. Then it started telling me I needed to - "Activate Windows in so many days or it would (I believe it said) become inactive? Which it did I'm now back to just Windows Home Premium.

Does this mean I have to fork out more money? and I guess and can't even just get the upgrade this time around can I? because I'm already on the Home Premium?

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Upgrade Home Premium To Ultimate Or Windows 7

May 15, 2010

This might be a silly question, but I need some advice. I have Vista Home Premium 32 bit, and since the release of windows 7, the price of Vista Ultimate has dropped dramatically. My questions are these. What would be the benefit of upgrading to vista ultimate on a home PC or should I just upgrade to Windows 7?

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Mar 26, 2008

Can I use an Upgrade edition of Windows XP Pro from Vista Home Premium or do. I have to buy full version?

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Upgrade Home Premium To Windows 7 And Full Backup

Jan 1, 2010

My subject on this posting may be misleading. I am actually looking for a reliable full backup solution so that I can perform the upgrade with some confidence that I won't lose everything. Vista Home Premium (also Home Basic) does not include Complete PC Backup. (It was a surprise to me too!) I need a full/complete backup solution. Otherwise, the restore task is piecemeal... and very cumbersome to do and contemplate.

Should I purchase backup software? Disk imaging software? Recommendations? I purchased a sizeable disk drive and can connect it with usb. Does the Windows 7 upgrade have any options to perform the needed backup? Not likely I imagine.

Does Windows 7 Home Premium have the same defect of no Complete PC Backup or equivalent Yeah, I think it's a bad defect! This must be the first OS without a full backup solution! Or am I missing something?

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Cannot Upgrade Home Premium To Ultimate

Feb 23, 2010

I apologize for the length of this diatribe. Here we go. I bought a new computer two years ago. It. came with Vista Home Premium 32 bit. I upgraded to Vista Ultimate 32 bit. No problem. I saved a full image of Ultimate to an external HD using Acronis. I did a clean install of Win 7 Beta when it was released. I decided to remove the Win 7 Beta and go back to Vista Ultimate using the Acronis Image. The Acronis image of Vista Ultimate destroyed my boot sector and I could not go back to the Vista Ultimate image so I did a repair using the Win 7 repair DVD I had made. That fixed the boot problem.......

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Upgrade From Home Premium To Business?

May 17, 2008

I know that upgrading from Home Premium versions to Business versions is not directly supported (I don't think it is, anyway). I have 10 licenses for Business and I wish to join a domain. Is there a way I can load Vista Business and apply my Business licenses to sort of "quasi-upgrade" my newly purchased machine which came with Home Premium to Vista Business? That is, other than a clean install (I'm trying not to have to track down all the drivers). There is no data on the machine now so I don't have to worry about data. I was thinking maybe a "repair" install or something? Or an "overwrite" install?

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Home Premium To Ultimate Upgrade

Mar 23, 2008

Seems that a number of individuals have had issues with upgrading legitimate copies of Vista Home Premium to Vista Ultimate. Using the upgrade media provided, the upgrade seems to fail during the last few steps by indicating rather cryptically that a component could not be configured. There is no indiation as to which component didn't get configured.

Now, I do not understand why this should happen. I used the upgrade advisor which indicated to me that the recommended version of Vista was Ultimate and there were no hardware/software/driver issues identified. Why can't I just upgrade then? Why do I have to disable all drivers except for the video, keyboard, and mouse to get a good upgrade? All drivers are Vista certified - I have no hardware whatsoever that isn't certified with Vista and am assuming that this certified hardware comes with certified drivers.

I have been unsuccessful so far in updating my system. I would really love to see Microsoft take ownership here and supply us with an upgrade disk that does what it indicates on the box. I should not have this much difficulty upgrading my system. After all, Microsoft developed the upgrade system and is selling it to the general public. Just insert the disk, add the key, and click install. What could be easier?

Does anyone have any suggestions? I do not really want to go through the hassle of disabling all drivers - if that is required, then instructions should have been included with the update disk on how to do this. Will Microsoft change this and provide a cleaner install DVD. If not, can I get my money back? Should I upgrade to something else?

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Upgrade Home Premium 64 To Ultimate 64?

Mar 24, 2009

Is there any way to upgrade from home premium 64 to ultimate 64? I feel kind of silly asking this question because it seems like it should be so simple, but I cannot figure it out.

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Upgrade From Basic To Home Premium

Nov 2, 2009

i recently had to take my dell dimension c521 back to factory set, using repair my computer on the f8 key advanced boot options (basic installed). everything loaded well and running basic no probs!!however i have an upgrade disk for home premium when i install it, it has disabled option to keep original settings and files and performs to install home premium and moves my old settings to (windows old folder). when i first got disk it just upgraded to home premium with settings and files no problem.have i done something wrong at factory set or is there a way to upgrade keeping my settings.

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Home Premium To Ultimate Upgrade Horrors

Oct 25, 2008

I bought a new HP dv7-1175 yesterday and need to upgrade it to Ultimate from my July 2008 disk from my MSDN subscription (Vista with SP1 x64 and x86). When I put in my (valid) activation code is just says "An error has occurred" and to restart the installation. When I bypass the activation and choose the Ultimate x64 it disables the upgrade option. I do not want to do a fresh install because I know what a driver hassle people are having with that option and I am more of an XP experienced installer.

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Anytime Upgrade Home Premium 64 To Ultimate 64?

Apr 15, 2009

Is there an upgrade from Home Premium 64 to Ultimate 64? If so, would it be
available through an MSDN download?

I'm trying to get my new HP dv7 laptop set up to join my home office domain
so I can transfer files, etc. Home Premium won't allow domain membership! My
son-in-law (network engineer) told me I need Ultimate for that. I don't
really want to do a new install from scratch and have to do clean reinstalls
on all my existing software.


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Home Premium To Ultimate - Upgrade Is Disabled

Apr 6, 2008

I've recently needed to reformat my hard drive due to a problem, when I originally received my computer it came with Home Premium which I had upgraded to Ultimate. I have reinstalled Home Premium and have all my programs reinstalled and setup as they should be. Now when I try to reinstall the Ultimate version, whether from the boot cd or from within Home Premium I get the message that 'upgrade is disabled'. I was led to believe
that I could upgrade from Home Premium to Ultimate. I do not remember if I ran into this problem when I first purchased the Ultimate software because it was installed on the computer prior to any software installations.

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Upgrade From Home Premium To Ultimate Failed

Jul 5, 2008

Two days ago, I purchased a PC equpped wit Vista Home Premium. As I need Vista Business as a minimum for other applications, I purchased an upgrade to Ultimate as well. Today I wanted to install the upgradeand everything seemed to go fine, but everytime my PC is restarted, it boots into Home Premium again. Being 50 now, I am a mouse clicker and not an expert if it comes down to software and installation problems. I am sur it is a configuration problem, but I do not know where to start.

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Couldn't Upgrade Windows Vista Home Premium, Couldn't Connect To The Internet

May 5, 2009

I had windows XP pro and i bought windows vista home premium upgrade, when i went to install it it said that i couldn't upgrade it. So i followed directions on how to do a custom clean install, where you install vista without typing in the product key and without getting updates then you pick what OS you have and do the custom installation, then you install again (2nd time) and choose upgrade instead of custom and go through the process again.

The problem is after installing it the first time, I couldn't connect to the internet, so I couldn't install it a second time. I have an ASUS PQ5 PRo motherboard and when i start up there is this thing called express gate, in express gate I can use the internet but not when i enter Vista. When I put in the PQ5 Pro DVD vista says it can't open it. Also my XP PRO may have been 64bit, and now I am on Vista32 bit and the disck wont work.

I think the internet is a driver problem, if i go to the asus website on a diff computer and get the ASUS drivers put them on a USB and then open them on vista should this work? WHat drivers do I need? Just the LAN one? Also if the Asus DVD wouldnt start up will that mean that I wont be able to open the drivers on the flash drive too?

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64bit Home Premium To Ultimate Upgrade Post SP1

Apr 30, 2008

i have several 32bit vista ultimates on other machines. the 64bit machine has Home Premium and i'd wanted to go ultimate on it as well. i saw "Anytime Upgrade" and using the name only postponed the upgrade till i had funds and time to do the upgrade. surprise 1, anytime refers to paying for the upgrade. i was sure to use the 64bit machine to order and postponed my expectations on using the ultimate features until the DVD arrived to me in alaska.

since the upgrade order process said it was scanning my machine i was sure i'd get the 64bit disk. surprise 2, disk was the 32bit DVD tho it was plus SP1 so i guess it did scan my machine in some fashion. in the package the instructions on ordering 64 bit media are given. use this web site and order. you'll have to pay even more and wait even longer but you'll get the ultimate upgrade ultimatly. surprise 3 the web site after putting in the product key from the ultimate upgrade dvd package gives the error "No Offer Found"

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Home Premium Network Failure After Recent Upgrade!

Dec 17, 2008

I had a nice network set up allowing my Laptop and Main PC to communicate both ways and transfer Video recordings from my Main to Laptop to play on the main TV running as a PC Monitor. Come the most recent set of Upgrades and Fixes last week I found that my network had died. Luckily I subscribe to Windows Secrets and last week they listed this Tech Net Article on DHCP.

Article ID: 928233 - Last Review: June 17, 2008 - Revision: 3.1Windows Vista cannot obtain an IP address from certain routers or from certain non-Microsoft DHCP servers..........

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Clean Install ? Upgrade From Home Premium To Ultimate

Jun 1, 2009

I've been trying to upgrade from Home Premium to Ultimate, but the only available button is the clean installation, which I don't want to lose my files. I went to the help and support and checked to see if Premium to Ultimate was available without doing the clean installation, and yes, I should have the upgrade button. But why don't I have it?

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Upgrade Advisor: (running Vista Home Premium) And It Crashes

Apr 23, 2008

I have an issue with Vista Home Premium. I was attempting to run the Upgrade
Advisor (running Vista Home Premium) and it crashes. Is this normal behavior?

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Mar 23, 2008

I had already upgraded my xp media center to vista home premium. I want to reinstall it but don't want 2 partitions if i don't need them. xp was backed up along with other program that came with the computer at time of purchase on partition D: FAT32 my question is do i need this or is it safe now for me to delete it via computer management I want to run my computer partition free.

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Outlook 2007 No Longer Working After Upgrade From Home Premium To Ultimate

Oct 18, 2009

I had a copy of Ultimate laying around the house and decided for some stupid reason to upgrade the OS yesterday. It's been a nightmare. After 10 hours I've reinstalled many, many programs and have been able to get the to launch all of them with the exception of Outlook. I've searched for a solution and have had no luck following a solution to the problem I'm encountering.

I'm getting the following error message:

>>> Cannot open your default e-mail folders. An unexpected error has occured. MAPI was unable to load the information service mspst.dll. Be sure the service is correctly installed and configured.<<<

I have successfully used Outlook 2007 for the past 6 months on my home PC. The problems I am encountering began immediately following the upgrade to Ultimate (32 bit--I thought I'd have less problems with drivers going 32 bit route than trying 64). I am hoping to salvage my contacts and calendar if at all possible (I have them backed up on an external drive but it's not current about 6 weeks old...I see an Outlook.pst in Windows.old but I cannot open it). I've had to reinstall Office Ultimate 2007 and I have run repair three times. All the Microsoft Windows Ultimate updates are installed. Not sure if this is related but the Office Ultimate Disc 2 will not install properly.

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Mar 26, 2008

I had already upgraded my xp media center to vista home premium. I want to reinstall it but don't want 2 partitions if i don't need them. xp was backed up along with other program that came with the computer at time of purchase on partition D: FAT32. my question is do i need this or is it safe now for me to delete it via computer management? I want to run my computer partition free.

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Perfect Upgrade From Home Premium To Ultimate, Extract The .iso File Using Winrar To An Empty Folder On The Desktop

Oct 31, 2008

Just finished my upgrade from Home Premium x64 SP1 to Ultimate x64 SP1. I've been lurking here on the forum for a while now and having seen quite a few folks having problems with their upgrades, I thought a post sharing the steps I took, which resulted in a Smooooth and problem free upgrade, might be of interest to some.

In no way am I advocating or recommending ANY of the steps that are shown here (i.e. turning off the firewall, etc.).

First phase:
-Purchase and download the upgrade to my hard drive (shoparhive.com was less costly than digital locker). Since I live 40 miles away from the nearest store, I preferred the digital download.

-Extract the .iso file using winrar to an empty folder on the desktop.
-Performed full system virus scan.
-Performed full system spyware scan.
-Performed full system backup to the removable HP media drive.
-Burn the downloaded iso file to dvd, and the extracted files to another dvd.

Second phase:....................

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Feb 6, 2009

Is it possible to upgrade vista home premium 32 bits to 64 bits version?

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May 15, 2010

I've a weird problem with my IE8. Any page I browse to shows a 'Done, with errors on Page' at the status bar and most other sites such as hotmail turn up blank, with the 'Done' at the status bar and a warning sign next to it.

Its driving me crazy, and I cannot spot anything in Event Viewer System/Application logs that corresponds to this occurrence. Is this a virus that has taken over ...? Should I try restoring the system to any restore point?

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Sep 27, 2009

My son is running Vista Home Premium onto his machine and just downloaded Windows 7/RTM and he wants to install it desperately. I'm hesitant to do so: it's easy to "uninstall" Windows 7 and revert back to Home Premium if he thinks that he made a mistake?

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Mar 26, 2008

i can not get programs to install when they have been downloaded on the Internet. They progress as far as the 'Windows Installer" and then it just sits there and stalls out. I am trying to download and install both Itunes and Acrobat 8.0 Professional. I have not been able to find any solutions on the Internet

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Oct 21, 2008

I recently installed Windows Vista Home Premium on my home computer and I cannot seem to find where Aero is. I looked in the obvious place. But it just isn't on here. What is wrong? I have a 32bit Vista Home Premium.

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