What is upgrade RRP ?

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What is upgrade RRP ?
when i was looking on windows vista prices i saw upgrade RRP and what is it ?
 
What is upgrade RRP ?
when i was looking on windows vista prices i saw upgrade RRP and what is
it ?
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Recommended Retail Price maybe? I don't know - what's the context?
 
If you GOOGLE this question, you'll get many links. The context in which it
is used, leads me to believe it refers to the retail price of Vista. I don't
know the EXACT meaning, but it has something to do with the retail price. As
posted already - Recommended Retail Price, sounds good to me.

What is upgrade RRP ?
when i was looking on windows vista prices i saw upgrade RRP and what is it
?
 
I need to know what the difference's are between a full version of windows
Vista and the Upgrade of Windows vista, does the price justify buying the
full version as opposed to saving the seventy plus dollars and buying the
upgrade, Please help???????

R. Jenner
 
I know that MSRP is frequently used--Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price

RRP???


| where did you see it?
|
| "Papz" wrote:
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| > What is upgrade RRP ?
| > when i was looking on windows vista prices i saw upgrade RRP and what is it ?
| >
| >
 
Functionally, there is no difference (of the same license edition).
An upgrade version must be setup within a functioning and activated
qualifying previous version of Windows.
A full version may be installed by booting from the DVD without the
necessity of a previous version.
 
If you want to do a clean install, you need the full version. Upgrade
requires you to start the upgrade from inside a previous version of Windows.

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With the upgrade edition, you will have to reinstall your old Windows first
if you want to do a fresh clean install of Vista.


|I need to know what the difference's are between a full version of windows
| Vista and the Upgrade of Windows vista, does the price justify buying the
| full version as opposed to saving the seventy plus dollars and buying the
| upgrade, Please help???????
|
| R. Jenner
 
Robert Firth said:
If you want to do a clean install, you need the full version. Upgrade requires you
to start the upgrade from inside a previous version of Windows.
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Ah, but can you do an upgrade with the full version or only a clean install?

Tom Lake
 
dirty old man said:
With the upgrade edition, you will have to reinstall your old Windows
first
if you want to do a fresh clean install of Vista.
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....and activate/validate that old Windows (XP or 2000). So think of the
future if your qualifier is an OEM version. ;)
 
If you want to do a clean install, you need the full version. Upgrade
requires you to start the upgrade from inside a previous version of
Windows.
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"R. Jenner" wrote
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But all Vista installs are "clean" because Vista is laid down as an image,
not a file by file copy. When starting the upgrade from the XP desktop you
can choose custom install which will roll up the windows installation into
Windows.old, but nothing is carried over to Vista, and with Vista being laid
down as an image, then install is "clean".
 
I need to know what the difference's are between a full version of windows
Vista and the Upgrade of Windows vista, does the price justify buying the
full version as opposed to saving the seventy plus dollars and buying the
upgrade, Please help???????
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To qualify to use the upgrade edition of Vista in the x86 version, there
must be a qualifying OS installed, activated and genuine (either Windows XP
or Windows 2000). The installation is started from the qualifying OS's
desktop. There are two types of installations that can be done with an
upgrade version of Vista. An in place upgrade where after Vista is
installed, programs that were installed are migrated into Vista and data /
settings are transferred. The other is a custom install. In this case the
old installation and data are wrapped up into a windows.old folder. You can
salvage what data you want from there and then delete it.

Depending on what the qualifying OS is and what version of Vista, the only
option may be the custom install.

With a full version there does not need to be a qualifying OS installed,
though a full version can do an upgrade from an installed OS.

When using the upgrade version, if in the future you need to reinstall
Vista, the qualifying OS needs to be installed first. To get around this
just save an image of the system right after Vista is installed, with
something like Acronis True Image.
 
Win2k does not require activation.


| | > With the upgrade edition, you will have to reinstall your old Windows
| > first
| > if you want to do a fresh clean install of Vista.
|
| ...and activate/validate that old Windows (XP or 2000). So think of the
| future if your qualifier is an OEM version. ;)
|
| > | > |I need to know what the difference's are between a full version of
| > windows
| > | Vista and the Upgrade of Windows vista, does the price justify buying
| > the
| > | full version as opposed to saving the seventy plus dollars and buying
| > the
| > | upgrade, Please help???????
| > |
| > | R. Jenner
| >
| >
|
|
|
 
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