Installion of Home Premium edition

"Mate" wrote:

> My PC - an HP Pavilion t3355uk - came with XP Home edition installed,
> for some obscure reason, I then upgraded to XP Pro, then loaded an
> Evaluation copy ( 5600 ) of Vista Ultimate. All works well.
>
> Come release of Vista, do I purchase the upgrade edition of Home
> Premium, my choice at the moment-referring to Home Premium, not the
> upgrade, or do I purchase the full edition, & do a clean new install ?
>
>
> mate
> ________________
>
>
> Mate
>
>

I have recently learned, much to my chagrin, that XP Pro cannot be upgraded
to Home Premium which means you must do a clean install. If you hope to keep
your existing XP settings you're out of luck. Interestingly Pro will upgrade
to Business or Ultimate and XP Home can upgrade to anything supposedly
allowing you to keep your settings. I am mighty choked since I had to open
the Premium box to learn this.

Use Windows Easy Transfer to move your settings and files. You will have to
reinstall you programs. Considering the problems many are having with in
place upgrades, consider yourself lucky.

"Russ Ashe" <> wrote in message
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>
>
> "Mate" wrote:
>
>> My PC - an HP Pavilion t3355uk - came with XP Home edition installed,
>> for some obscure reason, I then upgraded to XP Pro, then loaded an
>> Evaluation copy ( 5600 ) of Vista Ultimate. All works well.
>>
>> Come release of Vista, do I purchase the upgrade edition of Home
>> Premium, my choice at the moment-referring to Home Premium, not the
>> upgrade, or do I purchase the full edition, & do a clean new install ?
>>
>>
>> mate
>> ________________
>>
>>
>> Mate
>>
>>
>
> I have recently learned, much to my chagrin, that XP Pro cannot be
> upgraded
> to Home Premium which means you must do a clean install. If you hope to
> keep
> your existing XP settings you're out of luck. Interestingly Pro will
> upgrade
> to Business or Ultimate and XP Home can upgrade to anything supposedly
> allowing you to keep your settings. I am mighty choked since I had to
> open
> the Premium box to learn this.

"Russ Ashe" <> wrote in message
news:9DC809BE-8797-4CC0-9992-...
>
>
> "Mate" wrote:
>
>> My PC - an HP Pavilion t3355uk - came with XP Home edition installed,
>> for some obscure reason, I then upgraded to XP Pro, then loaded an
>> Evaluation copy ( 5600 ) of Vista Ultimate. All works well.
>>
>> Come release of Vista, do I purchase the upgrade edition of Home
>> Premium, my choice at the moment-referring to Home Premium, not the
>> upgrade, or do I purchase the full edition, & do a clean new install ?
>>
>>
>> mate
>> ________________
>>
>>
>> Mate
>>
>>
>
> I have recently learned, much to my chagrin, that XP Pro cannot be
> upgraded
> to Home Premium which means you must do a clean install. If you hope to
> keep
> your existing XP settings you're out of luck. Interestingly Pro will
> upgrade
> to Business or Ultimate and XP Home can upgrade to anything supposedly
> allowing you to keep your settings. I am mighty choked since I had to
> open
> the Premium box to learn this.


It all depends on the license for XP Pro you own. If it was supplied by HP,
it is probably an OEM copy, so it could conceivably be used as the base for
an upgrade to Vista Ultimate, but not Vista Home Premium, since that is not
a valid upgrade path for Vista Home Premium.

Valid upgrade paths for Vista:
XP Home->Vista Home Basic
XP Home->Vista Home Premium.
XP Home-> Vista Business.
XP Home-> Vista Ultimate
XP Media Center Edition 2005->Vista Home Premium/Vista Ultimate

All other valid upgrade paths are:
Win2k/XP Pro->Vista Business/Vista Ultimate

Any other path would be a "downgrade", not an upgrade, and must be installed
"clean".

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Donald L McDaniel
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