Home Premium to Ultimate

[Ken]

I cloned my Vista Home Premium System. I have one copy of Home Premium and
one copy of Ultimate. MSFT does not like my cloned system and wants me to
buy another copy of Home Premium. Can I update/upgrade the cloned system to
Ultimate without having to do a clean install? I have got all kinds of
stuff installed and do not want to start from scratch! Please say yes!

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi Ken,

Yes, you can upgrade to Ultimate without going with a clean install. You
might also be able to do an in-place upgrade with a second Vista Home
Premium disk. From a licensing standpoint, you should be purchasing a full
version, not an upgrade, but it should still work.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Ken]

Ok, I'll give it a try. Hopefully, this will reinstall Windows Mail for me
since it got screwed up somehow in the cloning process and does not want to
display 300 headers even though it says it read them?

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi Ken,

It should reinstall WM, but the problem may originate in the data store, not
the program. You will find that here:

C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Mail

Deleting and rebuilding the store may resolve the issue.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Ken]

Been there done that several times it don't fix the "problem". When I go to
Tools>Options>Read and turn off the 300 Headers option it does show me all
the Headers at a small price in delay time. It also seems like some
newsgroups show more Headers than others when I have the 300 Headers turned
on! It also looks like the longer I let the system run the more headers it
displays! If I did not have two identical systems I probably would not know
there was an issue! Windows Mail is a stange creature.