Upgrading Vista Home Premium to Ultimate, Dutch to English?

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I currently have Vista HP which came preinstalled but its only in Dutch. I
was advised to upgrade to Ultimate but if I buy the Dutch version, can i
change it to English?? Also, if I buy the English version, is it compatible
with the HP Dutch version I have preinstalled?? I have no disk for the HP
version currently running...
 
If you buy the ultimate DUTCH version, you will be able to download the
english language pack MUI from windows update and change your language
interface to english, YES.

Now if you want to buy an upgrade in ENGLISH version, its for sure that you
will not be able to UPGRADE your already existing installation.
Im not sure if you will be able to do a CLEAN install though.. this means
that all the data will be erased and a new fresh install of Vista will be
installed.

Perhaps someone else here can clarify this.

I always suggest to people in non english speaking countries to get the
ENGLISH version
of ultimate and then chose whatever language they want to install as a
language pack.
But this advice of course applies for first time buyers, not to you since
you already have the Dutch version.
 
Windows Vista Ultimate edition does allow the user to change languages, so
yes that's possible. However, you cannot buy an English version and install
it over a Dutch install - it will fail. You would need to upgrade Dutch to
Dutch and then change the language afterwards.
 
can he start the install from his dutch vista, with an upgrade english
upgrade disk and select to do a clean install of vista ?

Richard G. Harper said:
Windows Vista Ultimate edition does allow the user to change languages, so
yes that's possible. However, you cannot buy an English version and
install it over a Dutch install - it will fail. You would need to upgrade
Dutch to Dutch and then change the language afterwards.

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Amsterdamned said:
I currently have Vista HP which came preinstalled but its only in Dutch.
I
was advised to upgrade to Ultimate but if I buy the Dutch version, can i
change it to English?? Also, if I buy the English version, is it
compatible
with the HP Dutch version I have preinstalled?? I have no disk for the HP
version currently running...
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And you're a complete tosspot. Get off your backside, get a job, a life and
then go out and buy Vista. Rapidshare. LOL, probably full of spyware,
viruses and the rest......... enjoy your machine controlled by outsiders,
FOOL
 
I also have windows vista home premium (dutch version) and I want to
have windows vista ultimate (english version) is it not posibble to make
a clean new install of windows or do I really need to buy the ultimate
in the dutch version and then select the english language afterwards ?

One last thing, if I buy the dutch vista ultimate, does the english
language pack come with it or do I need to download it ?

Would anyone here know something about this ?

Thanks, I would be grateful for any response.

Andreas

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If you have the Dutch ultimate version, you will have to download the
language pack to switch it to English. Language packs are available
through Windows update. The language pack for English is around 250MB
if I remember well.

Yves
 
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