Switch to Home Basic from Home Premium?

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Paul

Hi everyone,

I recently upgraded a 4 year old laptop with 2GB of RAM from XP to Vista
Home Premium. The upgrade went well and everything works fine, except that
I can't use Windows Media Center to it's full potential or edit movies due
to the limitations of my graphics card. I can live without this full
functionality, however a TON of my hard drive space is taken up my WMC when
I can barely use it anyway.

Long story short, I should have upgraded to Windows Home Basic. I think I
heard that all upgrade DVDs contain all versions of the OS and was wondering
if there's a way to "downgrade" to Home Basic from the Premium DVD. (Or
maybe unintall WMC, but I can't find that option anywhere).

Thanks in advance for any answers.
 
Neither of these options will work for you. There is no way to uninstall
MCE features and since the product key you have is for Home Premium it won't
install Home Basic. You would be best advised to leave things as they are.
 
Neither of these options will work for you. There is no way to
uninstall MCE features and since the product key you have is for Home
Premium it won't install Home Basic. You would be best advised to leave
things as they are.
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Damn - what a way to run a business!
 
Paul said:
Hi everyone,

I recently upgraded a 4 year old laptop with 2GB of RAM from XP to Vista
Home Premium. The upgrade went well and everything works fine, except
that
I can't use Windows Media Center to it's full potential or edit movies due
to the limitations of my graphics card. I can live without this full
functionality, however a TON of my hard drive space is taken up my WMC
when
I can barely use it anyway.

Long story short, I should have upgraded to Windows Home Basic. I think I
heard that all upgrade DVDs contain all versions of the OS and was
wondering
if there's a way to "downgrade" to Home Basic from the Premium DVD. (Or
maybe unintall WMC, but I can't find that option anywhere).

Thanks in advance for any answers.
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You need a Home Basic product key and you would have to reinstall from
scratch. If your Home Premium came preinstalled on the machine then you
might also need a Vista dvd as well.
 
ray said:
Damn - what a way to run a business!
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You are correct. They make billions. Don't you wish you could run a
business like that? Oops you use Ubuntu you have no idea how a business
works.
 
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