What upgrade

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Sinner said:
Upgrading from one OS to another, even within the same family, has never
been a strong suit for Windows. A clean installation is always best.
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That's not at all true.

A properly prepared and maintained PC can almost always be
successfully upgraded by a knowledgeable and competent individual. I've
lost count of the systems I've seen that have been upgraded from Win95
to Win98 to Win2K to WinXP (usually with incremental hardware upgrades
over the same time period), without the need for a clean installation,
and that are still operating without any problems attributable to upgrades.

Granted, some people will blindly recommend that one always perform
a clean installation, rather than upgrade over an earlier OS. For the
most part, I feel that these people, while usually well-meaning, are
living in the far past, and are either basing their recommendation on
their experiences with much older operating systems, or are simply
inexperienced and uninformed.

Granted, there are times when an in-place upgrade is contra-indicated:

1) When the underlying hardware isn't certified as being fully
compatible with the newer OS, and/or updated device drivers are not
available from the device's manufacturer. Of course, this condition also
causes problems with clean installations.

2) When the original OS is corrupt, damaged, and/or virus/malware
infested. I've also seen simple, straight-forward upgrades from WinXP
Home to WinXP Pro fail because the computer owner had let the system
become malware-infested. Upgrading over a problematic OS isn't normally
a wise course to establishing a stable installation.

3) When the new OS isn't designed to properly, correctly, and safely
perform an upgrade.

But even more importantly, the newer installation mechanisms (partition
images vs. file-by-file copying) used by Vista and Win7 render your
assertions even more irrelevant.


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Mark A. Sam said:
Thank you all for your help. I discovered in the client's server room,
several copies of Vista Business Upgrade. They must have come with some
other units they purchased with XP or planning on upgrading.
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Err "what" is "resolved"?
Please quote the post you are replying to, reply to the thread, and please
don't change the subject line unless the thread goes WAY off topic.

This is not a chatroom or web forum, this is a UseNet newsgroup.

Thank you.
 
Gordon,

The original post of what version to upgrade to. I wrote resolved so that
people wouldn't put their time into a solution. Sorry if I caused
confusion. I thought my message would explain why.

God Bless,

Mark
 
Mark A. Sam said:
I tried to upgrade to Business, but couldn't. I could only upgrade from
Home Premium to Ultimate. I Ordered it.
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Ouch! You're right, I'm sorry. Home Premium has some features that
aren't in Business, and an upgrade won't take anything out. So the
only place you can go from Home Premium is Ultimate, which has
everything.
 
Tim,

I was able to map a network drive, so I put the notebook to use until I get
the upgrade.

God Bless,

Mark
 
Mark A. Sam said:
Gordon,

The original post of what version to upgrade to. I wrote resolved so
that people wouldn't put their time into a solution. Sorry if I caused
confusion. I thought my message would explain why.

God Bless,

Mark
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The best way would have been to reply to your own original
post with - RESOLVED appended onto the subject line.
 
Gordon said:
Err "what" is "resolved"?
Please quote the post you are replying to, reply to the thread, and
please don't change the subject line unless the thread goes WAY off topic.

This is not a chatroom or web forum, this is a UseNet newsgroup.

Thank you.
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Err <sigh> and we Err don't need any more IDIOT net cops. Err.

Did I Say Err? If not, then Err.
 
Gordon said:
Err "what" is "resolved"?
Please quote the post you are replying to, reply to the thread, and
please don't change the subject line unless the thread goes WAY off topic.

This is not a chatroom or web forum, this is a UseNet newsgroup.

Thank you.
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Don't make me come over there and kick your ass
 
A properly prepared and maintained PC can almost always be
successfully upgraded by a knowledgeable and competent individual. I've
lost count of the systems I've seen that have been upgraded from Win95
to Win98 to Win2K to WinXP (usually with incremental hardware upgrades
over the same time period), without the need for a clean installation,
and that are still operating without any problems attributable to upgrades.
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I've upgraded successfully too - but I still prefer a clean install.
Let's face it, what windows system doesn't benefit from a reload? I've
never seen one that didn't speed up. As long as you are doing the
"upgrade" (and will have to reinstall most of your apps anyway), you
might as well do it right.
 
I agree and I thought I did. My error.


Ian D said:
The best way would have been to reply to your own original
post with - RESOLVED appended onto the subject line.
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I installed Ultimate and it can't find any network. There is an option
called Network Discovery which is suppose to seek out any networks, but it
is set to Off and I can't set it to On.
 
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