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| | 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
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| 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.
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| | 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
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| 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).
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