Upgraded Vista Home Premium to Business and lost the desktop

[Guest]

Help please! I upgraded to Vista Business from Home Premium so that I could
connect to our work domain and now don't have access to my installed
programs....???

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

There is no upgrade path from Vista Home Premium
to Vista Business....you must have performed a "custom
installation" which resulted in a "clean install" of Vista
Business. As a consequence, you'll need to reinstall
your missing programs using the original installation
media.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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Help please! I upgraded to Vista Business from Home Premium so that I could
connect to our work domain and now don't have access to my installed
programs....???

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the info... just assumed it did the same type of upgrade as
previous versions since it said 'upgrade'.

 

[John Barnes]

You have a choice of custom install or upgrade install during the install.

 

[Guest]

I did a Vista upgrade install and most of my programs were intact. I did
have to download and reinstall drivers for 2 programs (printer and sound) and
i had to uninstall and reinstall McAfee Security Center before it would work
right.