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I did the ''anytime upgrade'' from Home Premium to Ultimate via Staples. All
went well except I had to uninstall/reinstall Creative Audigy 2 ZS drivers.
Sound is now fine.
I followed Conor's advice in another post, d/l Belarc Advisor, and now have
the Ultimate key.

AFAIK I can use the Ultimate key and the Home Premium Full Version DVD I
purchased to reinstall Ultimate if ever need be.

Am I right? Or do I need something else? Thought I'd ask so I am prepared
if/when I have to reinstall. TIA
 
BChat spake thusly on 2/23/2007 10:54 AM:
I did the ''anytime upgrade'' from Home Premium to Ultimate via Staples. All
went well except I had to uninstall/reinstall Creative Audigy 2 ZS drivers.
Sound is now fine.
I followed Conor's advice in another post, d/l Belarc Advisor, and now have
the Ultimate key.

AFAIK I can use the Ultimate key and the Home Premium Full Version DVD I
purchased to reinstall Ultimate if ever need be.
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Yup. It's as simple as that. You can use any valid product key on any
retail version of Vista. All the DVDs have the same content (even though
they are boxed and labeled differently - that's why the "anytime
upgrade" works).

So, 1 Home Premium DVD + Original Product Key, plus new Ultimate Product
Key = 1 install of each


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BChat spake thusly on 2/23/2007 10:54 AM:
I did the ''anytime upgrade'' from Home Premium to Ultimate via Staples.
All
went well except I had to uninstall/reinstall Creative Audigy 2 ZS
drivers.
Sound is now fine.
I followed Conor's advice in another post, d/l Belarc Advisor, and now
have
the Ultimate key.

AFAIK I can use the Ultimate key and the Home Premium Full Version DVD I
purchased to reinstall Ultimate if ever need be.
Click to expand...

Yup. It's as simple as that. You can use any valid product key on any
retail version of Vista. All the DVDs have the same content (even though
they are boxed and labeled differently - that's why the "anytime
upgrade" works).

So, 1 Home Premium DVD + Original Product Key, plus new Ultimate Product
Key = 1 install of each
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Thanks Scott - I just wanted to make sure
BChat


Scott http://angrykeyboarder.com

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
NOTICE: In-Newsgroup (and therefore off-topic) comments on my sig will
be cheerfully ignored, so don't waste our time.
 
I did the ''anytime upgrade'' from Home Premium to Ultimate via
Staples. All
went well except I had to uninstall/reinstall Creative Audigy 2 ZS
drivers.
Sound is now fine.
I followed Conor's advice in another post, d/l Belarc Advisor, and now
have
the Ultimate key.

AFAIK I can use the Ultimate key and the Home Premium Full Version DVD
I
purchased to reinstall Ultimate if ever need be.

Am I right? Or do I need something else? Thought I'd ask so I am
prepared
if/when I have to reinstall. TIA


What is the cost for the upgrade? I bought a copy of Ultimate and am
going to do the family deal to get 2 additional copies of Home
Premium. Can I upgrade those to Ultimate?
 
I did the ''anytime upgrade'' from Home Premium to Ultimate via
Staples. All
went well except I had to uninstall/reinstall Creative Audigy 2 ZS
drivers.
Sound is now fine.
I followed Conor's advice in another post, d/l Belarc Advisor, and now
have
the Ultimate key.

AFAIK I can use the Ultimate key and the Home Premium Full Version DVD
I
purchased to reinstall Ultimate if ever need be.

Am I right? Or do I need something else? Thought I'd ask so I am
prepared
if/when I have to reinstall. TIA


What is the cost for the upgrade? I bought a copy of Ultimate and am
going to do the family deal to get 2 additional copies of Home
Premium. Can I upgrade those to Ultimate?
 
I did the ''anytime upgrade'' from Home Premium to Ultimate via
Staples. All
went well except I had to uninstall/reinstall Creative Audigy 2 ZS
drivers.
Sound is now fine.
I followed Conor's advice in another post, d/l Belarc Advisor, and now
have
the Ultimate key.

AFAIK I can use the Ultimate key and the Home Premium Full Version DVD
I
purchased to reinstall Ultimate if ever need be.

Am I right? Or do I need something else? Thought I'd ask so I am
prepared
if/when I have to reinstall. TIA


What is the cost for the upgrade? I bought a copy of Ultimate and am
going to do the family deal to get 2 additional copies of Home
Premium. Can I upgrade those to Ultimate?
 
Someguy said:
I did the ''anytime upgrade'' from Home Premium to Ultimate via
Staples. All
went well except I had to uninstall/reinstall Creative Audigy 2 ZS
drivers.
Sound is now fine.
I followed Conor's advice in another post, d/l Belarc Advisor, and now
have
the Ultimate key.

AFAIK I can use the Ultimate key and the Home Premium Full Version DVD
I
purchased to reinstall Ultimate if ever need be.

Am I right? Or do I need something else? Thought I'd ask so I am
prepared
if/when I have to reinstall. TIA
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It's an upgrade key, so it'll be expected to run from an installed OS.
You can clean install with a bit of messing around. Ju st enter no CD
Key the first time you install, selecting at least Home Premium then
once it's installed run Setup again from within Windows and this time
enter your Ultimate Upgrade CD Key.
 
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