Switch to Home Basic from Home Premium?

Hi everyone,

I recently upgraded a 4 year old laptop with 2GB of RAM from XP to Vista
Home Premium. The upgrade went well and everything works fine, except that
I can't use Windows Media Center to it's full potential or edit movies due
to the limitations of my graphics card. I can live without this full
functionality, however a TON of my hard drive space is taken up my WMC when
I can barely use it anyway.

Long story short, I should have upgraded to Windows Home Basic. I think I
heard that all upgrade DVDs contain all versions of the OS and was wondering
if there's a way to "downgrade" to Home Basic from the Premium DVD. (Or
maybe unintall WMC, but I can't find that option anywhere).

Thanks in advance for any answers.

--
Paul
Cleveland, Ohio

Neither of these options will work for you. There is no way to uninstall
MCE features and since the product key you have is for Home Premium it won't
install Home Basic. You would be best advised to leave things as they are.

"Paul" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi everyone,
>
> I recently upgraded a 4 year old laptop with 2GB of RAM from XP to Vista
> Home Premium. The upgrade went well and everything works fine, except
> that
> I can't use Windows Media Center to it's full potential or edit movies due
> to the limitations of my graphics card. I can live without this full
> functionality, however a TON of my hard drive space is taken up my WMC
> when
> I can barely use it anyway.
>
> Long story short, I should have upgraded to Windows Home Basic. I think I
> heard that all upgrade DVDs contain all versions of the OS and was
> wondering
> if there's a way to "downgrade" to Home Basic from the Premium DVD. (Or
> maybe unintall WMC, but I can't find that option anywhere).
>
> Thanks in advance for any answers.
>
> --
> Paul
> Cleveland, Ohio
>
>

On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 05:27:00 -0400, Richard G. Harper wrote:

> Neither of these options will work for you. There is no way to
> uninstall MCE features and since the product key you have is for Home
> Premium it won't install Home Basic. You would be best advised to leave
> things as they are.

Damn - what a way to run a business!

>
> "Paul" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I recently upgraded a 4 year old laptop with 2GB of RAM from XP to
>> Vista Home Premium. The upgrade went well and everything works fine,
>> except that
>> I can't use Windows Media Center to it's full potential or edit movies
>> due to the limitations of my graphics card. I can live without this
>> full functionality, however a TON of my hard drive space is taken up my
>> WMC when
>> I can barely use it anyway.
>>
>> Long story short, I should have upgraded to Windows Home Basic. I
>> think I heard that all upgrade DVDs contain all versions of the OS and
>> was wondering
>> if there's a way to "downgrade" to Home Basic from the Premium DVD.
>> (Or maybe unintall WMC, but I can't find that option anywhere).
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any answers.
>>
>> --
>> Paul
>> Cleveland, Ohio
>>
>>

"Paul" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi everyone,
>
> I recently upgraded a 4 year old laptop with 2GB of RAM from XP to Vista
> Home Premium. The upgrade went well and everything works fine, except
> that
> I can't use Windows Media Center to it's full potential or edit movies due
> to the limitations of my graphics card. I can live without this full
> functionality, however a TON of my hard drive space is taken up my WMC
> when
> I can barely use it anyway.
>
> Long story short, I should have upgraded to Windows Home Basic. I think I
> heard that all upgrade DVDs contain all versions of the OS and was
> wondering
> if there's a way to "downgrade" to Home Basic from the Premium DVD. (Or
> maybe unintall WMC, but I can't find that option anywhere).
>
> Thanks in advance for any answers.
>
> --
> Paul
> Cleveland, Ohio
>
>

You need a Home Basic product key and you would have to reinstall from
scratch. If your Home Premium came preinstalled on the machine then you
might also need a Vista dvd as well.

ray wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 05:27:00 -0400, Richard G. Harper wrote:
>
>> Neither of these options will work for you. There is no way to
>> uninstall MCE features and since the product key you have is for Home
>> Premium it won't install Home Basic. You would be best advised to leave
>> things as they are.
>
> Damn - what a way to run a business!
>

You are correct. They make billions. Don't you wish you could run a
business like that? Oops you use Ubuntu you have no idea how a business
works.