Upgrade from Home Premium to Ultimate?

[JohnnyBee]

I am interested in upgrading from vista home premium to ultimate, using the
vista ultimate upgrade retail disk. Will I have to re-install office pro
2007 and my other software? Will I have to re-program media center TV
shows? Can I just use my Ultimate key and install only the ultimate
components that I want to use, like ISO image creation and hold'em?

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

You can upgrade from Home Premium to Ultimate. Your files and settings and
applications will be preserved. Just make sure you choose the upgrade option
during setup.

 

[David B.]

You shouldn't have to reinstall your software, as long as the upgrade
installs properly, have a backup just in case.
You cannot pick and choose what to install, you have to install the Ultimate
OS.

 

[JohnnyBee]

OK. Thanks.

I am going to give it a go!

John

You shouldn't have to reinstall your software, as long as the upgrade
installs properly, have a backup just in case.
You cannot pick and choose what to install, you have to install the Ultimate
OS.

 

[JohnnyBee]

OK. Thanks.

I am going to give it a go!

John

You can upgrade from Home Premium to Ultimate. Your files and settings and
applications will be preserved. Just make sure you choose the upgrade option
during setup.
--
Andre
Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
My Vista Quickstart Guide:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8E5CC039D51E3DB!9709.entry

 

[JohnnyBee]

Crap!
After two attempts to upgrade to Ultimate, I must report that both failed
and automatically rolled back to Home Premium. Each attempt took 2+ hoursw,
both got to "Completing Upgrade", then "Windows could not configure one or
more system components. To install Windows restart the computer then restart
the installation" As soon as I click "OK" it rolls back.
My computer is an HP m9000t that is 2 months old, came with quad core 6600,
2 GB of memory, 500GB HD, and with the 8600GT video card with 512 MB. I
added a 4GB readyboost and 2 GB of additional memory. I know that the 32-bit
Vista supports only 3GB of memory. Should I remove the readyboost and/or the
additional 2GB of memory and try again?
Oh the final message I get tells me to go to microsoft.com, search for
upgrade advisor. The results of my running upgrade advisor on it is that I
should download a new driver for my network adapter to be installed after the
Ultimate is installed.
Help please.
Thanks.
John

 

[David]

Did you turn off your anti-virus software? I had this problem when I
installed SP1. It wasn't sufficient to right-click on the anti-virus icon
in the system tray and exit, but after I went to msconfig and unchecked
everything in the Services and Startup tabs that pertained to BitDefender,
the install finished without a hitch.