Upgrading To Vista Question

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Ryan Hayward

I currently have xp professional installed. Can I legally purchase the
upgrade version
of vista home premium. I wish to do a clean install.
 
Alex Clayton said:
Of course you can buy a copy of Vista. Now as to whether the computer you
want to put it on will run it, or run it well, is another matter.
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Its a duocore 4700, 2 gigs of ram and 8600GT card. New computer.

When you say I can buy a copy, does that mean I can legally buy the much
cheaper
upgrade version?
I don't want to fork out over 300 bucks for the standard version. I don't
need it as I can always get my
OS back with Acronis True Image in case of a disaster.
 
Its a duocore 4700, 2 gigs of ram and 8600GT card. New computer.

When you say I can buy a copy, does that mean I can legally buy the much
cheaper upgrade version?
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Yup. But still make sure you've located all the Vista drivers for
your system before you take the plunge.
 
Nothing to do with legality. The amswer is No.
Xp Pro>Vista Home Premium is not an upgrade path
 
Mick Murphy said:
Nothing to do with legality. The amswer is No.
Xp Pro>Vista Home Premium is not an upgrade path
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Actually it does works. Just installed the OS in the last couple of hours
along with some of my programs.
I had to choose custom and perform a clean install but thats what I wanted
to do anyway :-)

Installation was a breeze. The only minor problem I have is vista keeps
installing its own driver for my
onboard sound and it won't let me update to the proper driver from my
manufacturer. It does the job though!
 
Ryan said:
I currently have xp professional installed. Can I legally purchase the
upgrade version
of vista home premium. I wish to do a clean install.
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As Mick already said i believe this is not an upgrade path, also I don't
think upgrading can be done with a clean install. The OS you are
upgrading needs to be installed and running. I'm not an advanced user of
windows by any means. i would advise you check first that the software
you intend to use is compatible with vista and that vista compatible
drivers are available for your hardware. I have found more than 50% of
the software i normally use under windows does not run under Vista,
though i've had no driver issues with my hardware or peripherals. I'm
sure the software will be upgraded in the near future to support Vista
but that may require re-purchase in some cases.

You can, as i did, buy an OEM copy of Vista at a reasonable price which
will allow you to do a clean install. Until i resized my vista partition
it has been stable and reliable. It did take some time to figure out how
to turn off some of the more irritating features and is slightly less
user configurable than XP. ATM my vista64 install is un-bootable so i'm
running XP32, i am not able to see any significant difference in speed,
if anything XP32 seems a little faster than Vista, but that's just an
impression not the result of any testing.

[This is being posted from CentOS Linux, I've been using Windows/Liux
dual boot systems for a very long time, both OS's have their advantages
and disadvantages hence the use of both. :)]

Chipmunk
 
Info for you to read.
XP Pro upgrade to Vista Home Premium is NOT an upgrade Path!
Not what you did, but what you asked!
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In his first post he CLEARLY stated that he WANTED to do a clean
install.

Put the bottle down.
 
I currently have xp professional installed. Can I legally purchase the
upgrade version
of vista home premium. I wish to do a clean install.
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Yes, you can, and that's exactly what I did.

Note, it is LEGAL to do so, but you can't actually install it as an upgrade
to XP. It must be a clean install. (It's utterly mad to try to install any
OS as an upgrade anyway, in my opinion).

SteveT
 
I thought you plonked me. I wish you would!
You don't even have the guts to do that.
You are just a lonely, bitter, twisted old man!

The rest of the regulars know what you are like now; you are a loser!
Bye noony; no more replies to you, dumbo!
 
Hold on a second now, this was what I asked.

I currently have xp professional installed. Can I legally purchase the
upgrade version
of vista home premium. I wish to do a clean install.

I did not say I wanted to upgrade. Simply wanted to know if I can purchase
the cheaper upgrade version to do a clean install legally.
As I was successfully able to install the OS despite my XP Pro OS, obviously
it must be legal.

Thankyou for those that answered my question.
 
Alex Clayton said:
As you found, yes you can. If there is room to add another Gig of RAM it
will run better. Vista works fine, BUT it uses a hell of a lot more memory
than XP. 2 Gig is probably about the min. This one has 3 and it does run
great, other than the learning curve of getting used to a new OS. The
advantage you have is like you said you can always go back if you wish,
but after you get used to Vista it seems to work fine for me.
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It works great for me too, I have it installed on another computer. The
reason wht I bought the new computer with XP Pro is because
they didn't have any left with vista preinstalled in stock. As it was cheap,
I thought I would just buy it and upgrade to vista which was easy.
I find it runs very well with just 2 gigs of ram, though I don't do anything
too intensive. Mainly just surfing & playing casual/indie games.
I don't think I could ever go back to XP....
 
My two cents,

I agree with Mick Murphy's assessment in the sense you may have a legally
purchased software (which is one issue) but you may not have a qualified
product for using it (which is another issue) but in either or both cases,
one can still manage to install it - which is another issue.

Installation method has nothing to do with if the software is legally
purchased or not, and one can use many ways to have a software to be
installed on a computer.

Mick Murphy simply pointed you to the qualified products for upgrade version
and that's nothing more and nothing less.
 
Thanks for that. Much appreciated.
One thing no-one has mentioned, is that you can get away with doing a clean
install with an Upgrade disk, BUT, microsoft does NOT support it.
 
My apologies for the misunderstanding.
Out of curiosity, would a clean install on an upgrade copy also work with
people who have
windows me or 98SE?
 
I currently have xp professional installed. Can I legally purchase the
upgrade version
of vista home premium.
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Certainly. However you can not use it to upgrade from XP Professional,
only from XP Home.

I wish to do a clean install.
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You can not do that either. Unlike with XP, Vista upgrade disks don't
do clean installations.
 
Certainly. However you can not use it to upgrade from XP Professional,
only from XP Home.




You can not do that either. Unlike with XP, Vista upgrade disks don't
do clean installations.
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Oddly enough... that's what he did and it worked.
 
Certainly. However you can not use it to upgrade from XP Professional,
only from XP Home.




You can not do that either. Unlike with XP, Vista upgrade disks don't
do clean installations.
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Classic example of STUPID Microsoft strong arm marketing to get prior
customers to "over" upgrade.

I was in the same situation, I also have XP Pro. I too wished to
upgrade to XP Home Premium. Why? Because it had features more useful
to me than the business version which I ended up switching to.

The point that always zooms over the goofy fanboy crowd is prior to
Vista then were only two choices, the more common home version and the
pro version. Now with four choices you are forced to get what you
don't want. Worse, you end up losing features you did want. Business
version doesn't include the popular video features I actually wanted.
What is further annoying is if the business version is a "higher" up
the totem pole version then why does it exclude features that the home
premium version has? Simple answer, to try to force you into the most
expensive Ultimate version. Well, I didn't bite.
 
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