Install Action Pack Vista Business over preinstalled Home Premium

[malcolm]

I am buying a new laptop. My choices all come with Vista Home Premium
preinstalled at no extra cost. I have an Action Pack subscription and have
multiple licenses for both Vista Ultimate and Vista Business. Can I use my
Action Pack disks to upgrade the preinstalled Home Premium version on the
laptop without wiping the hard drive clean and starting fresh?

 

[Richard G. Harper]

No. Home Premium to Business Edition is not considered an upgrade.
Ultimate would be an upgrade, and would work. Probably. For retail it
would, can't say about Action Packs.

 

[malcolm]

I am in the same boat. I cannot find any relevant information in the MS site
about using an Action Pack version to upgrade an off the shelf version of
Vista Home Premium.
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malcolm

No. Home Premium to Business Edition is not considered an upgrade.
Ultimate would be an upgrade, and would work. Probably. For retail it
would, can't say about Action Packs.

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I am buying a new laptop. My choices all come with Vista Home Premium
preinstalled at no extra cost. I have an Action Pack subscription and have
multiple licenses for both Vista Ultimate and Vista Business. Can I use my
Action Pack disks to upgrade the preinstalled Home Premium version on the
laptop without wiping the hard drive clean and starting fresh?

 

[malcolm]

I contacted Action Pack support. I will have to do a clean install of Vista
Business but can do an upgrade to Vista Ultimate. One cannot upgrade from
Home Premium to Business. A bite because Home Premium does not have remote
connection.
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malcolm

I am in the same boat. I cannot find any relevant information in the MS site
about using an Action Pack version to upgrade an off the shelf version of
Vista Home Premium.
--
malcolm

No. Home Premium to Business Edition is not considered an upgrade.
Ultimate would be an upgrade, and would work. Probably. For retail it
would, can't say about Action Packs.

--
Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] (e-mail address removed)
* NEW! Catch my blog ... http://msmvps.com/blogs/rgharper/
* PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups
* The Website - http://rgharper.mvps.org/

I am buying a new laptop. My choices all come with Vista Home Premium
preinstalled at no extra cost. I have an Action Pack subscription and have
multiple licenses for both Vista Ultimate and Vista Business. Can I use my
Action Pack disks to upgrade the preinstalled Home Premium version on the
laptop without wiping the hard drive clean and starting fresh?