Upgrade New PC From Windows 7 Home Premium To Professional?
Dec 21, 2011
I bought Windows 7 Professional and installed it on my computer. Recently, that computer died unexpectedly and I bought a new one that came with Windows 7 Home Premium installed on it. Since getting a new computer was unexpected, there were things I needed to get installed right away, so I just started installing it on the version of the OS that was already installed on the new PC. Now that I have a moment to go back and upgrade it to 7 Pro to take advantage of the features I want/need, this is appearing to not be an option, or at least not an easy one. The only options I'm seeing are to do a full reinstall or to do a Windows Anytime Upgrade which requires a separate license key. I have enough software installed now I really don't want to have to reinstall the entire machine again. Plus there were some applications that came for "free" on the new PC that I'd like to keep, but reinstalling would mean that keeping those apps also was not an option. And it seems stupid that I'd have to buy an upgrade when key when I have a full version of what I want to go to. Is my full version DVD of 7 Pro a paper weight now?
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May 5, 2011
I have a new laptop that came with Windows 7 Home Premium. I bought Windows 7 Professional Upgrade from download and the backup disc.
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Jul 20, 2012
Can I upgrade from Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Professional? I have a disk with W 7 P on it. I am using a 32 bit PC.
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Jun 22, 2011
Just wondering if i need to do a clean install if upgrading from 64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium to Windows 7 Professional 64 bits? Or am i able to just upgrade? Will it affect the current softwares on my PC and do i need to reinstall them?
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Dec 13, 2011
I currently have windows 7 home premium 64 bit edition on my desktop. I get a copy of windows 7 professional 64 bit disc with legal key from my university for a student special. How can I upgrade? I was redirected to windows anytime upgrade during the installation. But my windows 7 professional x64 product key was not accepted there. I already have lots applications installed so I don't want to do a clean install.
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Aug 26, 2011
can i use the windows 7 professional student upgrade to upgrade from windows 7 home premium?
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Mar 11, 2010
Can I upgrade Windows 7 Home Premium to Windows 7 Professional?
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Jan 15, 2013
I want to upgrade my Windows 7 Home Premium to Windows 7 Professional.My question is this, if I buy a new Windows 7 Pro from a store would itcontain an ANYTIME UPGRADE KEY? I'd like to use this method of upgrade so that I wouldn't have todo all the hassle of removing the old OS and installing the new one.
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Oct 1, 2011
can you upgrade from windows 7 home premium to windows 7 professional using windows 7 profession full version?I am wondering if when I drop the cd in of Windows 7 Professional, if it will offer me the option to upgrade from Home Prem 7 or just offer/start a full install and overwrite everything I've installed?
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Jan 31, 2012
I have windows 7 pro and have just purchased a pc with windows home premium, can the license from home premium be used to load windows 7 pro
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Jan 31, 2012
I have windows 7 pro and have just purchased a pc with windows home premium, can the license from home premium be used to load windows 7 pro?
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Oct 6, 2012
I just did a clean install of Win 7 Home and everything went smoothly but I have 32 gigs installed and it shows 32 but says only 16 are available. I am told this is directly because of a limitation in Win 7 home. so I have two questions:
1) is their anyway to modify Win 7 home so I can access all 32 gigs? 2) if I use an anytime upgrade to Win 7 pro will there be any issues? I have read that upgrades sometimes have unpredictable results, will that be likely even though I have a clean install? so far the only software loaded is a handful of drivers for the hardware.
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Jul 25, 2011
I have purchased a laptop with preinstalled windows7 premium but now I want to upgrade my os to professional.
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Oct 29, 2009
looking for ideas on how to fix this problem.
while installing 7 H.P. it gets to completing installation then freezes up after computer reboots a warning message appears stating windows 7 has failed to install and resume after reboot, and then the same warning message appears.
I tried the roll back installation option and a message flashes on and off to quickly to read.
and Vista will not come up to start over.
any Ideas on what to Do?
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Oct 10, 2009
If you have installed a preview version of Windows 7 Ultimate (e.g. beta, release candidate build 7100 or RTM build 7600) and want to install a cheaper version of Windows 7 Home Premium or Professional the installation is normally refused.
But with change of a registry key whilst installation you can fake a minor version - so you can install Home Premium or Professional over existing Windows 7 Ultimate.
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Feb 11, 2011
The institution has an arrangement with MS to download one copy of Windows Professional to each student. The school IT folks tell me I have to go into the boot menu (f2) and boot from the DVD containing the school's licensed Windows Professional copy. There is no "product key" that I can find, unless it is somewhere on the DVD embedded in another file.
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Oct 18, 2011
i am using windows 7 pro 64 bit and i want to change it to 32.
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Mar 24, 2011
I have installed Professional but the key I purchased is a dud. It was a MAC key but when I types it in it turns out it has already been used. I had no luck getting a valid one from the seller.It turns out I only really need Home Premium. If I buy a Home Premium one and authorize with that will it work.The reason I don't want to reinstall is I am using Bootcamp on a Mac Pro and I have to mess around a lot to get it working.
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Jan 23, 2012
I know with XP, Professional did not crash as much as XP home.Is that the case with Windows 7?
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Nov 1, 2009
I have Home premium DVD and one unused professional edition key from digital river. Is there any way to use the home premium DVD for professional ed installation ?
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Dec 28, 2009
I have a little while ago build up my pc,
and bought a new system development package of win. vista home premium 64 bit.
with in my foresight i had the new 7 totally for free.
Then i got my win 7 home premium, formatted my system and installed the upgrade just fine as a clean installation.
But in home premium are some features you have in the ultimate or professional version disabled, and some of these features i just want to use.
now i do the education on school for IT, and my school has given me a msdnaa account.
Now on that msndnaa account where i can download windows 7 professional.
My question is:
Now i want to install the home premium on my laptop, and the on my pc
can i install the home premium which is of course already activated on my pc, can i install it on my laptop. i don't need a explanation of how i install a os, cause i already know such things.
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Jul 21, 2010
I purchased Windows 7 Professional for my old computer. Shortly after the install my old computer failed. I've since purchased a new computer with Windows 7 Home. My question is: can I somehow upgrade the Home version to the Professional version using the Professional Install disc? The old computer was 32 bit and the new computer is 64 bit if that makes any difference.
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Oct 22, 2009
I successfully bought the upgrade version of Windows 7 Home Premium N, downloaded and extracted it and now I want to install it.
When I choose UPDATE in the intallation dialog it tells me that I cannot upgrade from Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Home Premium ???
Every website from Windows and other people tells me that it IS possible and even the Windows 7 Update Advisor told me that I should not encounter any problems upgrading.
Has anyone of you yet encountered upgrading problems of compatible Vista/7 versions?
Or any other idea what I can do to solve the problem?!
I know that I can make a clean intall of 7, but this would be a pain..
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Nov 12, 2011
Is is possible to change from Windows 7 Home Premium to Windows 7 Professional without losing files? Both are 64 bit.
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Aug 30, 2011
I need to change my OS from win vistas home premium to windows 7 professional. I had made 2 partition on my own from C to D and E. Will my data from these partitions also get removed/lost if i change my OS. Should i keep a data backup or change the OS without fearing for data loss from D and E drive.
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Oct 13, 2009
I want to upgrade my Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 but my install CD is for Professional. Will my computer know what to do and just install the 7 Home Premium version?
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Jul 24, 2012
My husband and I are trying to restore his Windows 7 Home Premium OS on his HP laptop and it got stuck on intializing the restore. We do not have the OS disks, but I have the OS disk for my Dell laptop for Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. Should we try to restore from my set of disk? Or is it taboo to mix manufactures?
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Jan 26, 2012
When I bought a Dell desktop computer, it came with windows 7 home premium pre-installed.The computer runs super at the present time. In order to run Xp mode and remote computing, I purchased Windows 7 Professinal OEM. I wish to install it over Windows 7 Home Premium in order to avoid re-installing all software installed under Widnows 7 Home Premium.
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Jul 21, 2011
Difference between windows 7 home premium & windows 7 professional?
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Jan 24, 2011
I recently bought a laptop with windows 7 home premium x64. Can this be upgraded directly to Windows Ultimate x64?
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Oct 25, 2011
I bought and downloaded about a year ago, Windows 7 Anytime Upgrade to install the new OS on a computer that was bought with a Vista system already installed. Now I have some problems with the computer and I'd like to perform a clean reinstallation of Windows 7.Is it possible to do so even if I only bought the Home Premium Upgrade version?Do I absolutely need the Home Premium Full version?I was thinking of downloading ISO images from the Microsoft Store and burning them to a DVD. Will that work if I only bought the Home Premium Upgrade version?
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