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RE: Home Basic to Premium, Quick Questions

WAW8 — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:42:08 GMT

How did you install Basic from an Ultimate DVD? Did you just not use a product key? Keys are version specific.

People have run into major problems doing this, but they were attempting to upgrade a vendor-preinstalled machine (using one licensing scheme) using a purchased DVD (using a very different licensing scheme). Not heard of any of those situations that have worked.

But since you installed Vista yourself using a DVD, you SHOULD be able to be able to insert the DVD and upgrade to Ultimate, provide the Ultimate product key -- and be OK. You should not lose any settings, files, or programs.

But to be safe, I would back off all personal data and files to external storage (8GB USB sticks now cost $20).

RE: Home Basic to Premium, Quick Questions

carisj — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:03:45 GMT

thanks for the reply, it came with windows xp and i installed vista home basic on it using a family copy of ultimate, now with the extra memorhy i was wishing to upgrade,

thanks

RE: Home Basic to Premium, Quick Questions

WAW8 — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:55:38 GMT

Home premium will work fine on the system you describe. 3GHz+ CPU and 2.5GB of memory is more than enough.

Regarding the upgrade -- did the machine come preinstalled with Vista? (in which case, brand is it?) Or, did you install Vista yourself. The answer is important because it involves licensing terms.

Home Basic to Premium, Quick Questions

carisj — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:22:14 GMT

Hey Guys,

I just had a couple of quick questions.

Firstly, I am currently using vista home basic on my pc, however i recently upgraded the ram to 2.5 gig, i am using a 7100gs graphics card, not the greatest but its ok for wat i need. anyway my question is will home premium run well on this setup. the processor is a 3.06ghz p4.

Secondly, i have a vista ultimate CD, if i was to do this upgrade would i have to start from scratch with everything or would the update keep all my files.

Thanks