Upgrading From OEM Home Premium to Full Version of Ultimate

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I had a local PC shop build me a pc with Ultimate as the OS ...... I was not
happy with the PC and they were willing to refund all money but the price of
the Full Ultimate License that was purchased for the building of the PC
I then bought a HP Slimline that came with Vista Premium ....
Question: Can I upgrade from Premium to Ultimate using the Ultimate Full
Retail version that I own? If so, will I lose anything in this upgrade?
Are there any suggestions out there?
Thx

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

You sure can upgrade from Vista Home Premium to Ultimate using the Ultimate
Full Retail versiom. Just make sure you choose the upgrade option during
setup, the upgrade process will preserve your personal files, settings and
applications.

 

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Hello and Thank You Andre
I was about to do the upgrade and now noticed that the version I have is not
a full retail version but a OEM Builder Pack.
Is it still possible to upgrade my OEM Home Premium to this OEM Ultimate
Version using this disk? If so, are there any issues to watch for?
Thx,
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[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

No, OEM versions of Windows require a clean installation, this includes
Vista Ultimate. What I would suggest you do is use the Backup files utility
in Backup and Restore center to backup your personal files and restore in
Vista Ultimate.

 

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Goood Evening Andre:
Once again thanks for the reply .... I think I will just pass on this as I
am not too overly sure how to go about it all ... I think it's best to offer
my Ultimate for sale on eBay and cut my losses.
I need to move on to another issue with another posting about "Audio
Compression" not being supported.
I found this thread
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/co...467f67f&cat=&lang=en&cr=US&sloc=en-us&m=1&p=1
and it looks like it doesn't offer any better help ....
I searched the Internet for answers and Microsoft's site and there seems to
be no clear answer ..... Maybe a new posting will help but in the meantime, I
hope that Microsoft will address this in an update.
Thx for all you help.
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[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

Have you even attempted my suggestions? Its at least worth a try.

 

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Hi Andre .. No I didn't attempt ... I am not that brave nor do I have the
temperment to go through having to reinstall all my applications.
As I say, I most likely will attempt a sale of that copy which I bought and
then in turn maybe do an update ...
In the meantime, I have no shifted my energy towards trying to resolve the
mic issue with the audio compression not supported ..
Thanks,

 

[cqui3]

Anyone has an idea as to what would happen if one installed
the Full Ultimate version and then restored all files and folders,
other than Windows folder? Then restored the registry using
a ERNT backup of the old registry ?

Or maybe from a full registry backup as a *.reg file, edited
to remove part of it. Or HKCU HKLM, etc backdup as
separate *.reg files.