Upgrade from Home to Ultimate

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Can I upgrade from Home Premium edition of Vista to Ultimate. I upgraded my
operating system from XP to Home Premium not too long ago and now want to
ugrade to Ultimate. Both versions of Home Premium and Ultimate that I have
are "Upgrade" versions. Can I do this upgrade without losing my documents
and programs????
 
Yep, it'll work just fine.
In fact, I think most of my problems went away when I went from Home Premium
to Ultimate.

Just keep in mind the Home Premium Upgrade basically becomes useless once
you upgrade to Ultimate.
 
Just out of curiosity lets say i purchased a computer with Premium already
installed, and only have recovery disks. If I was to upgrade to Ultimate via
anytime upgrade, and somewhere down the road i needed to reinstall what
happens? When i purchase the upgrade do i get it on disk or is it a
download?

Dave
 
I upgraded via Windows Anytime Upgrade from Home Premium to Ultimate. Easy
and painless (other than the pocket book.)

You MUST have a disk.
For a small shipping fee, they will send you a disk as part of the purchase
of an upgraded license.

What you download is a self-executing file that restarts the installation
process from the disk and supplies it with the necessary information; e.g.
What version you are upgrading to, product key, etc.

If you ever need to reinstall, you must download this file again from the
Digital Locker and run it against your disk. Unfortunately, this mean you
must already have the prior version installed (it's an upgrade.)

You can shorten this flawed process (re-installation) by right-clicking the
file you download and extracting the Product Key (use Notepad and scroll to
the right a little... it's on the top line.)

What I don't know...
If Home Premium came with your computer, it's probably OEM and you don't
have a disk. How would you reinstall the OEM if it had critically failed so
that you could perform this anytime upgrade?
If you have a disk, you can bypass this problem, but it's amazing that MS
doesn't address it!
 
Well I do have the recovery disks, which puts the hard drive back to the
original state that it was in when i purchased the computer, ie the
operating system and the extra crap HP puts on computers. So I am assuming
if I can get to that point i would be able to re-install the upgrade.

Dave
 
I believe you would be able to make use of the Windows Anytime Upgrade, but
purchase the installation disk which is a few more dollars.
 
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