anytime upgrade vs. sp1

Title says it all; I have home premium, full edition. I had to do a
"hostile reinstall" and left it at home premium (new computer, blew away the
Vista crapware version that was installed).

Finally got around to upgrading to Ultimate, don't need it, but it's in my
digital locker bought and paid for.

Upon attempt at installation, I am refused "upgrade" installation; only a
clean install or install to another partition. This is quite a surprise; I
want to upgrade Home Premium to Ultimate, the very same one I paid for in
February a little over a year ago. I don't want a clean install, putting my
apps and things on the new machine was a lot of work.

Is it because SP1 is installed in Home Premium that is preventing this
upgrade? Would removal of SP1 allow it or cause yet more problems? The
dialog box that informs me that an upgrade is not possible, only the clean
install option makes some mention of a "newer" Windows already on my machine
and that sounds like SP1.

Is there any official way to do this? It's not crucial. Like Vista,
Ultimate didn't bring much to the table; I had great expectations for
Windows Ultimate Extras and we all know where that has led.

SP1 didn't correct slow file copies/moves/deletes for me (large numbers of
files). Vista itself just isn't enough for MS to have charged the public
mentally and monetarily with being a great new OS. To me it's Vista with
some visual enhancements and some confused GUI elements and explorer
windows that were much better in XP. I've used Vista since beta 2 and have
switched back to XP twice over the last year in disgust.

The anytime upgrade is awful; it takes hours, but at least it stopped me
cold tonight with its refusal to do anything but a clean install. Again, my
only idea on this is that it must be that SP1 makes my Windows in residence
"newer" than what is on the disc. Any way out of this? I searched for an
answer but found nothing.

Thanks, Bill Halvorsen

John Smith wrote:

> Title says it all;

<snip>

If the title did say it all, then why did you keep on typing?

Yes, SP1 is obviously a newer version than the original version of Vista,
and that is at least one of the reasons why you cannot upgrade.

But I didn't get that was what you wanted from the title.

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