Upgraded Vista Home Premium to Business and lost the desktop

Help please! I upgraded to Vista Business from Home Premium so that I could
connect to our work domain and now don't have access to my installed
programs....???

There is no upgrade path from Vista Home Premium
to Vista Business....you must have performed a "custom
installation" which resulted in a "clean install" of Vista
Business. As a consequence, you'll need to reinstall
your missing programs using the original installation
media.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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"condliffe" wrote:

Help please! I upgraded to Vista Business from Home Premium so that I could
connect to our work domain and now don't have access to my installed
programs....???

Thanks for the info... just assumed it did the same type of upgrade as
previous versions since it said 'upgrade'.

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:

> There is no upgrade path from Vista Home Premium
> to Vista Business....you must have performed a "custom
> installation" which resulted in a "clean install" of Vista
> Business. As a consequence, you'll need to reinstall
> your missing programs using the original installation
> media.
>
> --
> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Shell/User
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> "condliffe" wrote:
>
> Help please! I upgraded to Vista Business from Home Premium so that I could
> connect to our work domain and now don't have access to my installed
> programs....???
>

You have a choice of custom install or upgrade install during the install.

"condliffe" <> wrote in message
news:203A12E2-799D-4155-AD66-...
> Thanks for the info... just assumed it did the same type of upgrade as
> previous versions since it said 'upgrade'.
>
> "Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> There is no upgrade path from Vista Home Premium
>> to Vista Business....you must have performed a "custom
>> installation" which resulted in a "clean install" of Vista
>> Business. As a consequence, you'll need to reinstall
>> your missing programs using the original installation
>> media.
>>
>> --
>> Carey Frisch
>> Microsoft MVP
>> Windows Shell/User
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> "condliffe" wrote:
>>
>> Help please! I upgraded to Vista Business from Home Premium so that I
>> could
>> connect to our work domain and now don't have access to my installed
>> programs....???
>>

I did a Vista upgrade install and most of my programs were intact. I did
have to download and reinstall drivers for 2 programs (printer and sound) and
i had to uninstall and reinstall McAfee Security Center before it would work
right.

"John Barnes" wrote:

> You have a choice of custom install or upgrade install during the install.
>
> "condliffe" <> wrote in message
> news:203A12E2-799D-4155-AD66-...
> > Thanks for the info... just assumed it did the same type of upgrade as
> > previous versions since it said 'upgrade'.
> >
> > "Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:
> >
> >> There is no upgrade path from Vista Home Premium
> >> to Vista Business....you must have performed a "custom
> >> installation" which resulted in a "clean install" of Vista
> >> Business. As a consequence, you'll need to reinstall
> >> your missing programs using the original installation
> >> media.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Carey Frisch
> >> Microsoft MVP
> >> Windows Shell/User
> >>
> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> "condliffe" wrote:
> >>
> >> Help please! I upgraded to Vista Business from Home Premium so that I
> >> could
> >> connect to our work domain and now don't have access to my installed
> >> programs....???
> >>
>
>