Downgrade from Home Premium to Home Basic?

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Paul

I require Dragon NaturallySpeaking voice recognition software to be able to
use my computer. I've just purchased an HP laptop preloaded with Vista Home
Premium, and have discovered, to my horror, that the current version of DNS
will not run on a 64-bit operating system. (The next version might, but
there's no guarantee.)

The Anytime Upgrade pack looks like an ideal stopgap measure, but will it
allow me to downgrade from Premium to Basic? I'm sure that isn't what it's
designed to do, but does anybody know (for sure) that it will or won't? Will
it then, at some point in the future, upgrade me back to Premium?

Thanks in advance!
 
Contact HP and ask them if your product key will work, and if your recovery
disk contains the 32 bit version of Home Premium. you should not have to
downgrade to Basic. Home Premium 32 should work. That way you wouldn't
loose any functionality. You just need to find out if HP will help you do
that.
 
He is not "entitled" to a 32bit version. Because it's OEM nobody owes him
anything. Maybe HP will cooperate, but they are obligated to. He may just
have to purchase the 32bit.

Mark
 
Typo: HP is "not" obligated.

Mark said:
He is not "entitled" to a 32bit version. Because it's OEM nobody owes him
anything. Maybe HP will cooperate, but they are obligated to. He may just
have to purchase the 32bit.

Mark
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If HP does not cooperate he will need to purchase at least an OEM version of
Vista 32bit. Microsoft will not give it to him.

Mark
 
Hello

You will find that as this is OEM i.e. HP that will only supply a
replacement disk which was originally shipped with the machine, also if in
the future you have a problem then the support line will not help you as
they in this case HP only support what is shipped with the hardware.

Regards
 
Thanks to all who replied!

HP confirmed that I could indeed clean-install the 32-bit Home Premium
version. Unfortunately, my registered serial number wouldn't allow them to
send a backup disk of anything other than the original, i.e. 64-bit,
operating system. In other words, I'd have to buy it. I briefly considered
purchasing an upgrade to the 32-bit Ultimate version, but then my wife cut
through the entire Gordian knot by insisting I return the machine, eat the
restocking charge, and get another one that will work! :-)

Mark, thanks especially to you for jumping so quickly onto my problem. I
have to say, however, and with all due respect, that using the Vista Speech
Recognition was not a good option for me. I worked with it for almost a week
and made very little progress building a vocabulary. Neither were its
Windows commands all that functional. The differences between Dragon
NaturallySpeaking and the Microsoft product are IMMENSE. I hope and pray
that one day Microsoft *really* addresses itself to the whole subject of
Voice Recognition. Not only for disabled people like myself, but with an eye
toward the future of computing.

Thanks again to all.

Paul
 
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