How do you upgrade from Premium to Ultimate if the Premium version number is newer than the Ultimate version number? When I try the upgrade to the Ultimate DVD, the install says that the Premium install is a "newer operating system" and then only allows a clean install, which isn't much fun. Is there any way to tell the install to ignore the version numbers and just do it?
View 5 RepliesTrying to upgrade my new Toshiba Satellite laptop from 64 bit VISTA Home Premium to 64 bit VISTA Ultimate Have plenty of space on C: drive - 150GB with approx 50GB used and 100 GB free
While in Home Premium, I insert and run the VISTA Ultimate CD Select upgrade I have it connected to internet so it can retrieve updates. It goes though the process of upgrading but ends with a message similar to Windows could not configure one or more system components. It then reverts back to Home Premium. I have tried performing the upgrade both before and after installing updates to Home Premium- no difference..........
I could use a second opinion. I've got a HP DV9000 laptop. It runs really well with Home premium on it, but I am considering upgrading to Ultimate so I can use the Remote Desktop and the Backup features. What I am concerned about is if Ultimate will slow down my system or cause me any other problems? I know there's a hack available to make Remote Desktop work on home premium and other backup products too. But it seems like the upgrade would make more sense.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have a Sony notebook that came with Vista Business OEM from Sony. I have upgraded it to SP1 and have added various updates since then. I have a retail Vista Ultimate license/DVDs and a retail Vista Ultimate + SP1 license/DVDs. What's the least problematic way to take what I have and end up with the Sony notebook running Vista Ultimate SP1? Is it even worth it?
I don't want to do the Anytime Upgrade since the full retail licenses I have are already paid for. I'm a little leery because so much of the stuff Sony installs seems very fragile. (For instance, I don't want the TPM code tipping over.) I'm also really leery about uninstalling SP1, in part for the same reasons plus there have been many updates and changes since then.I had mentally reserved the SP1 license for the next desktop I build (Nehalem/Bloomfield X58?) and had hoped to use the slipstreamed DVD to avoid having to build that one and then immediately go install SP1. OTOH, if there is a way to get a pair of unkeyed Vista+SP1 edition DVDs as replacement or SP media--that I can use with my pre-SP1 retail key--I would consider that.
I know that retail versions of Vista Ultimate come with media for both 32-bit and 64-bit installation and that the same product will work for either. Machines that are purchased with Vista pre-installed come with either 32-bit or 64-bit versions, but there is no way to change from a 32-bit version to a 64-bit version, ever if you have 64-bit hardware. The COA on the bottom of the machine says Vista Ultimate, but does not say 32-bit or 64-bit. I have been told that you can reinstall Vista onto machines that originally came with OEM versions of Vista using retail media and activate using the OEM-supplied product key. (This is different from XP, where retail disks will not activate using OEM product keys). My question is whether I can install Vista Ultimate from a retail 64-bit DVD (that is licensed onto a different machine) and activate using the OEM key and whether or not Microsoft thinks this is a legal use of their product.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI’m preparing to install Vista Premium on my custom built pc (already installed XP Pro a month ago), the specs are more than adequate for this OS but I’m concerned about what possible, perhaps unforeseen issues that may arise during this upgrade. So my question is, what issues might I encounter during the upgrade, and what precautions might I take to avoid such occurrences?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI suddenly notice a lot of references to SP1 for Vista. I have stopped updates on my Vista Home Premium, after it killed my WinMail. I uninstalled upto KB 933928, and disabled updates. It is working fine, but I found AVG offering me AVG 8.0, which refused to install saying my Vista is not updated ( after downloading 80MB twice !! !&*()^%$$). How do I get to SP1? Just install all updates from MS? Will my WinMail survive? Or will I be forced to shift to XP Outlook? There is a lot of flak meant for Vista, but my system is very stable ( touch wood and everything else)
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When I put the 64 bit install disk in, it goes through the usual install process. I entered the product key from my 32 bit box, and continued. The install then fails as it says it cannot find an authorised disk to install on. My 32 bit Vista is fully activated, so I am not sure how to get around this.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI checked the search, but no results. I am building a PC from scratch. I bought Vista Home Pemium, but did not know it was 32 bit. I want to utilize 64 bit, so I bought the 64 bit DVD from MS. Do I install 32 bit first, and then the 64 bit DVD? DO I just install the 64 bit DVD as a clean install? IS that even possible?
View 5 Replies View RelatedMy 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?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am attempting to upgrade from XP Professional 64 Bit to Vista Ultimate 64 bit. I dowloaded the upgrade software from the Microsoft digital locker and I get the following error when I attempt to run the install. "This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem."
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have read a lot of threads in the forums to try to get to the bottom of my issue, but I have not found a true answer. I am running XP Pro and trying to upgrade to Vista Ultimate. I have ran the advisory many times and it stated my computer is ok.
No issues were detected for these system components. The following table contains system components that meet the minimum hardware requirements needed for Windows Vista.........
I have an Athlon 64 x2 6000+ CPU, 000 MHz FSB, 500 GB WD 7200 rpm HDD, 4 GB Dual Channel RAM (expandable to 8 GB) in my Pavillion media center and I would like to upgrade to x64 Ultimate. Can I purchase an upgrade copy of Ultimate and load the x64 version and if I do will it upgrade my x32 Home P. to x64 Ultimate? And if so, how do I go about it, as I am very.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have vista home premium, supplied with machine on a HP pavillion a642. its OK but I cannot network with my 3 other computers all running XP pro. is this down to incompatability, too lower version of vista orsomething else? I would look at upgrading to business or ultimate BUT can these be loaded on top of the home version & just over write it or will I have format the HDD & reinstall everything?
View 5 Replies View RelatedThe college does not have vista ultimate upgrade SP1 to match my home premium SP1. So, it sounds like I can not remove SP1 at home. Correct? Can I load SP1 for ultimate first before I try upgrading? I know that sounds funny, but a lady at MS Software replacement said to ask this question.
View 6 Replies View RelatedPurchased an HP notebook with premium and set it up but did not activate yet. Then purchased an Ultimate Upgrade with anytime upgrade. Installed the upgrade using the key from the bottom of the PC when it asked for the current product key. No errors. Finishes the upgrade and restarts and still is running Home Premium. Why did ultimate not take? We need ultimate to login to a domain.
View 9 Replies View Relatedi have a dell m1330 laptop, about 2 months old. Specs are> Intel core2 duo cpu t7500@2.20ghz 3gigs ram 220gigs HD It came installed with vista home premium but yesterday i bought the vista ultimate upgrade dvd. I inserted the dvd and upgraded as per instructions. It was completed without any problems.I've installed all important updates and rebooted the computer many times.
Now my laptop runs really slow, takes a longer time to boot up -about 3 or 4 mins now. In my sidebar i have a CPU meter and usually both cores run at less than 50 percent but now it jumps around 90-100%?? The graph looks like a lie detector when charles manson answered no to the question if he killed anyone??!! BTW im not running anything except firefox? Why is this so and how can i fix it?
I want to upgrade my vista basic to vista ultimate but the disc will not let me do it. I can do a clean install but I'm not favoring that option. What am I doing wrong?
View 5 Replies View RelatedWhen upgrading from XP Home SP2 and XP Pro 64 Bit either way I cant get it installed, not even from Vista Ultimate 32 bit. Tried first from 32 bit XP Home SP2 and figured the exe to run the setup from within windows was 64 Bit, so I tried upgrading from xp pro 64 bit and while the install does initiate it greys out the option to Upgrade and tells me I need to do a clean install.
I try that using the same upgrade disk, since it appears to give me that option, and after the initial setup steps when it goes to load the installation files it gave me a stop error 0x0000007b. I chose the "load driver" option and loaded the sata controller driver during setup and that took me past that error.
It goes on to go through the rest of the install then I get another blue screen 0x0000000A. I followed all the steps I could think of in Microsoft KB article 935806 with the exception of updating the BIOS and still no luck, since I really want to use that as a absolute last resort. Any Ideas outside of a BIOS update? That might fix it but I just want to make sure there isnt another known issue that anyone is aware of before updating it.
My friend just gave me his Vista Ultimate upgrade disk key to upgrade my vista home premium to ultimate version. Now, I have the key, but no upgrade disk. What I have however is a x86 Vista Ultimate disk, that I downloaded from microsoft MSDN website. From what I know, this disk is for a brand new and clean install of vista ultimate.
Can I use this disk to upgrade my home premium to ultimate. I certainly dont want to loose my programs/files on my current laptop, so I absolutely dont want a clean install, and am afraid to mess things up if I accidentally use wrong disk. So can I use the MSDN downloaded vista ultimate disk to perform the upgrade or should I buy a upgrade disk from somewhere?
I'm interested in upgrading my computer from Vista Premium to Vista Ultimate. Can someone be as so kind at to tell me how to do this? Also will I loose anything in the upgrade? I'm interested in purchasing the upgrade version from a best buy or something like that.
View 7 Replies View RelatedJust wondering if it's possible to UPGRADE from Vista Premium 64 edition to Ultimate 64 without doing a clean install. I've tried 3 times and it never finishes the "completing Install" stage
View 8 Replies View RelatedI am a grad student and I own a 64 bit Vista Premium laptop. My uni offers an upgrade to 32bit Vista Ultimate for 20 bucks.. My 64 bit OS just sucks..the keys get stuck, the mouse pad doesnt work properly, cant play games..sometimes both the keyboard and the touchpad dont work at all!
can i upgrade to a Windows 32bit Ultimate from a 64 bit Home Premium OS with just that upgrade DVD?? or shud i just get a new laptop?? lol i wanted to wait out for a Touchscreen windows 7 laptop :P but my present one is driving me crazy :| if it is not possible, do u think the SP2 pack to be released sometime soon can fix my problem??
I was wondering if I upgraded from Vista Home Premium to Vista Ultimate will it just add the missing features, or do a complete reinstall? When I went from XP to Vista I had to redo everything from scratch. Vista runs great on my XPS M1730 but would like to add the features missing.
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Have been playing Live Search Club and have enough points to get Vista Ultimate. I assume this is full version, not upgrade. Can I use this CD to upgrade to Ultimate or would I have to do clean install and then reinstall all programs and data files?
I have a full version of Home Premium and have been running it for a year or more.
I bought Vista Ultimate upgrade. However when I try and install and upgrade
to Premium I get a message saying.
You need a newer version of this software to upgrade.
I am running Vista SP1. It offers to do a clean install, which I do not want.
What does Ultimate want? It is so vague.
If it is an upgrade it certainly does not need a clean install.
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.......
View 9 Replies View RelatedSeems 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?
what the diffrence is between Home Premium and Ultimate the only reason i ask is iam runing vista Home Premium 64 and also windows 7 ultimate 64 beta one of the machines we have will be having windows 7 loaded when the full version comes out but i dont now if it will be worth going for ultimate or going for the cheeper home premium. And also will sp2 for vista run a bit like windows 7 i only ask because some of the changes that 7 has i quite like.
View 5 Replies View Relatedcoming from the word ULTIMATE i think it has a edge against vista home premium. but i'd like to know the major difference between each other. advantage and disadvantage with one another?
View 6 Replies View RelatedSo, what's the major Difference? Would you recommend me to buy the Ultimate version or just take the Home Premium? And why? Is there a site where i can see differences or something?
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