Question about clean Install

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Does the full version of Premium and ulimate allow you to do a clean
install? Aslo can the upgrade versions of ulimate and premium vista allow
you to doa clean install instead of me getting the full version I can get
the upgrade one instead. Also does the premium one have restore on the OS I
know ulimate does but what baout premium edition. Also can some one tell me
if the poker game from ulimate extras is worth getting ulimate or just going
to premium.
 
The deciding factor really is the Ultimate Extras which is exclusive to
Ultimate, which so far I don't see worth getting for if you are a home user.
 
Perception is everything.

In my view, the deciding factor is between Home <anything> (previously XP
Home) and Business/Ultimate (previously XP "Pro"). The primary difference
being network related. After deciding on your networking needs, then I would
consider the audiovisual/media needs. That;s just me :)

-Frank
 
Frankster said:
Any version of Vista can do a clean install.
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This needs to be clarified as it may cause some confusion. For example, the
32 bit upgrade version of Vista Home Premium can not be used to do a final
install of Vista on a completely blank drive. You can do a clean install
using Vista only, but it requires installing Vista twice, the second of
which is an upgrade. The upgrade install is much closer to a clean install
than previous versions of Windows, but you can't do a true clean install in
the same sense that you could with XP using the upgrade edition.
 
Tom Porterfield said:
This needs to be clarified as it may cause some confusion. For example,
the 32 bit upgrade version of Vista Home Premium can not be used to do a
final install of Vista on a completely blank drive. You can do a clean
install using Vista only, but it requires installing Vista twice, the
second of which is an upgrade. The upgrade install is much closer to a
clean install than previous versions of Windows, but you can't do a true
clean install in the same sense that you could with XP using the upgrade
edition.
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This is a good point as I have done two computers this way. I used the
option on the second install to make a clean install that produced a folder
called windows old and then deleted that folder. Each computer has run just
fine.

I have Ultimate on my main computer and Premium on a second computer as I
could get the family plan for only 50 bucks. I went back and forth on
getting Ultimate for the second one as I wanted to do a full backup of the
drive and Ultimate can do that but at 250 bucks I did not want to spend
200.00 just to get a backup program for my kids computer so I got True Image
10 from newegg.com for 31.90 and it handles the full drive backup for me.

As far as holdem I can't tell if it is worth it as I am not a poker fan and
I have an Nvidia 8800 GTX and the game just flashes and is unplayable.
 
Yes, I was purposely not introducing the "blank drive" concept as well as
not introducing the types of "upgrade" in different contexts (i.e. upgrade
pricing vs. upgrade in-place vs. calling it an upgrade just because Vista is
newer than XP).

Anyhow, the answer to the original question is yes, any version of Vista can
do a clean install. 'Course, I admit, you have to know the definition of
"clean install" for this to make any sense.

-Frank
 
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