Question about clean Install

[Drew]

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.

 

[Frankster]

Any version of Vista can do a clean install.

The main difference between Premium and Ultimate is networking. Ultimate can
join a Windows Domain, Premium cannot.

Premium doesn't have the backup I presume you are speaking of.

Can't answer about Poker.

Check it out...
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/choose.mspx

-Frank

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

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.

 

[Frankster]

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

 

[Tom Porterfield]

Any version of Vista can do a clean install.

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.

 

[Billh]

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.

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.

 

[Frankster]

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