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installation_setup >> Upgrade Vista Home Premium to Vista Business using FULL Business C

by cGxhbmV0ZWFydGg » Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:03:01 GMT

My friend got an excellent deal on the FULL Vista Business CD when CompUSA
was going out of sale. Since then, he bought a new Dell laptop with Vista
Home Premium on it, and just wants to *upgrade* to Vista Business.
He does NOT want to wipe Home Premium to replace it with Business, since the
laptop has all the drivers and MS Works (which he wants to upgrade to Office
Standard 2007 using the "upgrade" version).
Can he use the full version of Vista Business to just upgrade Vista Home
premium? As I recall, this wasn't always an option with older versions of
Windows: if you had the "full" version on CD, you couldn't upgrade from it;
you could only wipe and replace.
Thanks!

Steve
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installation_setup >> RE: Upgrade Vista Home Premium to Vista Business using FULL Business C

by RHdhcmY » Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:36:01 GMT


Hi,

Sorry, but that is not possible. The only upgrade possible from Home Premium
is to the Ultimate edition. The reason is because the Home Premium edition
includes media components whereas the Business version doesn't. To install
the Business edition you will need to perform a clean install.
Dwarf
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installation_setup >> RE: Upgrade Vista Home Premium to Vista Business using FULL Business C

by amVycnl3NDM4Ng » Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:05:01 GMT


Hi
That would be a downgrade you can not downgrade from Home Premium to
Business .
Home Permium has to be upgraded to Ultimate !!
If you want Business you have to clean install it .
To confirm this put the Business DVD in while you are in windows Premium and
try to install it you will see the upgrade option is grad out .
Upgrade path is Premium to Ultimate
Business to Ultimate
Home Basic can be upgraded to Business or Premium or Ultimate .
Do a web search you will see .
{And i do not think MSWorks is a valid upgrade path to Office 2007
with a {upgrade disk}
I think it has to be something like Office 2000 or 2003
i do not know this for a fact}
Other people may have there ideas on this part !!
Good Luck
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