Different Editions????

[Guest]

By accident when i installed the RC1 i installed it as windows vista home
premium instead of basic and now the product keys will not let me activate
windows. is there a way i can downgrade to basic so i can activate the
product keys or do i need to reintall everything? Thanks

 

[Mark D. VandenBerg]

By accident when i installed the RC1 i installed it as windows vista home
premium instead of basic and now the product keys will not let me activate
windows. is there a way i can downgrade to basic so i can activate the
product keys or do i need to reintall everything? Thanks

No, you must reinstall.

If you received your Product key as a member of the CPP, the key will only
activate Vista Ultimate. Tech Beta and MSDN subscribers may have been
issued Keys for different versions. Take care to install the edition of
Vista that corresponds the your particular Product Key.

 

[Sascha Benjamin jazbec]

I don't understand Microsoft only lets public test the Ultimate Version,
which for sure only few people will buy, if ever. Most will be luckily have
enoug Vista Candy with Home-Premium.

I have an older IBM Thinkpad that has a 32MB DirectX8 GPU in, but 1024 RAM
and a Pentium III-Mobile @1,4 GhZ - Vista runs perfectly smooth on this
laptopm but as it is not Aero-capable I have tested installing RC 1 and RC2
without entering a Key and choose Home-Basic.

It( home-basic) is much faster than Ultimate and surprisingly it has all
the nice stuf fin it that I like on Vista. Even Mobility and
Synccenter,Sidebar,Calendar,Photogallery,DX10, Speech-Recognition -..
everything I need. So this will be what I will buy.

I heared rumours of Vista-Basic as a crippled product without anything.
So now I had a look on my own and am lucky. I don't need a MediaCenter or
all that stuff on a notebook at all, as I use it only for text,graphics and
Internet.My few MP3s don't need more than WMP11 .

For my Desktop of course I could use Home-Premium or Ultimate.

My Problem in this testing period for me is now that i have 14 / now in RC2
30 days to have a full working Home-Basic on this Laptop.
I have 4 legit and full working Ultimate-Product-Keys but must use tricks
and workarounds to get the product to see that I want to obtain as soon as
it is available, only because MS wants us all get addicted to the expensive
edition. It is ridiculous.

If I go the official way and install Vista ultimate on the notebook i am
fine and have a "genuine" one- but than I have dozens of resource-eating
things running in the background that I will never use.I makes my IBM work
slow. Home-Basic is faster than my XP pro ( which I am sick of to usefor all
the patches and updates .. it is to me an outdated OS ) and I definately
want only that because it is the best choice to me.

Please expalin why they allow us to test the "rich-people-edition" but
refuse to give keys for the "normal office-user-editon" ?

Are they afraid more people will see that Home-Basic has everything that one
can need, yes it has even more functions than XP Home.It has no Aero-UI and
no MediaCenter and DVD-Maker- that is so far all I have noticed.It is
suitable for gaming as DX 10 is in it.

.... Now i am running on day 3 with RC2 - have 27 days left than it goes into
reduced functions and time for a new Keyless install.
Luckily the Backup and Restore-Center is also included ;-)

At least it is only 3 Months until I can buy it in a shop.

Greetings

Sascha / Germany

 

[Mark D. VandenBerg]

I don't understand Microsoft only lets public test the Ultimate Version,
which for sure only few people will buy, if ever. Most will be luckily have
enoug Vista Candy with Home-Premium.

I have an older IBM Thinkpad that has a 32MB DirectX8 GPU in, but 1024 RAM
and a Pentium III-Mobile @1,4 GhZ - Vista runs perfectly smooth on this
laptopm but as it is not Aero-capable I have tested installing RC 1 and
RC2 without entering a Key and choose Home-Basic.

It( home-basic) is much faster than Ultimate and surprisingly it has all
the nice stuf fin it that I like on Vista. Even Mobility and
Synccenter,Sidebar,Calendar,Photogallery,DX10, Speech-Recognition -..
everything I need. So this will be what I will buy.

I heared rumours of Vista-Basic as a crippled product without anything.
So now I had a look on my own and am lucky. I don't need a MediaCenter or
all that stuff on a notebook at all, as I use it only for text,graphics
and Internet.My few MP3s don't need more than WMP11 .

For my Desktop of course I could use Home-Premium or Ultimate.

My Problem in this testing period for me is now that i have 14 / now in
RC2 30 days to have a full working Home-Basic on this Laptop.
I have 4 legit and full working Ultimate-Product-Keys but must use tricks
and workarounds to get the product to see that I want to obtain as soon as
it is available, only because MS wants us all get addicted to the
expensive edition. It is ridiculous.

If I go the official way and install Vista ultimate on the notebook i am
fine and have a "genuine" one- but than I have dozens of resource-eating
things running in the background that I will never use.I makes my IBM work
slow. Home-Basic is faster than my XP pro ( which I am sick of to usefor
all the patches and updates .. it is to me an outdated OS ) and I
definately want only that because it is the best choice to me.

Please expalin why they allow us to test the "rich-people-edition" but
refuse to give keys for the "normal office-user-editon" ?

Are they afraid more people will see that Home-Basic has everything that
one can need, yes it has even more functions than XP Home.It has no
Aero-UI and no MediaCenter and DVD-Maker- that is so far all I have
noticed.It is suitable for gaming as DX 10 is in it.

... Now i am running on day 3 with RC2 - have 27 days left than it goes
into reduced functions and time for a new Keyless install.
Luckily the Backup and Restore-Center is also included ;-)

At least it is only 3 Months until I can buy it in a shop.

Greetings

Sascha / Germany

Every person testing Vista has different needs. Someone like you or me, for
example, really only will use Home Basic or Premium. Others, like many of
the System Administrators or programmers that are regulars here need the
features of Business or Enterprise. So, instead of having so many different
Product Keys available (see how confusing it is with only one kind!), every
one gets Ultimate which contains all of the features of the other editions.
Well, that's the official Microsoft stance.

I share your cynicism, however, and also believe that Microsoft is hoping
for extra Ultimate sales by having people become used to it. Naturally,
when you go to the car dealership, the SLR is in the showroom and the C230
is out of sight in the back row. It is good business to show your best
product.