Vista home Permium to win 7 professional

I know this may be the wrong group, but I need a fast answer.
I have Vista Home Premium running. I ordered Windows 7 Professional upgrade.
I just now found the Microsoft advisor, ran it, and it shows I can upgrade
to win 7 premium or ultimate...but not professional is this correct?
Thanks, NP

That is correct. The Professional edition would require a "Custom
Install" which is really a "clean install".

np-nyc wrote:
> I know this may be the wrong group, but I need a fast answer.
> I have Vista Home Premium running. I ordered Windows 7 Professional
> upgrade. I just now found the Microsoft advisor, ran it, and it shows I
> can upgrade to win 7 premium or ultimate...but not professional is this
> correct?
> Thanks, NP
>

"np-nyc" <> wrote in message
news:FB30C43A-BDF1-4099-AE39-...
> I know this may be the wrong group, but I need a fast answer.
> I have Vista Home Premium running. I ordered Windows 7 Professional
> upgrade. I just now found the Microsoft advisor, ran it, and it shows I
> can upgrade to win 7 premium or ultimate...but not professional is this
> correct?
> Thanks, NP
>

I think what it means is that you can't do an IN-PLACE upgrade. You can do a
clean install of Win 7 using Vista as a qualifying software.
For a more definitive answer go here:
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...nstall/threads

A little more work, but I have done clean installs before...
THANKS, Leroy

"Leroy" <> wrote in message
news:...
> That is correct. The Professional edition would require a "Custom Install"
> which is really a "clean install".
>
> np-nyc wrote:
>> I know this may be the wrong group, but I need a fast answer.
>> I have Vista Home Premium running. I ordered Windows 7 Professional
>> upgrade. I just now found the Microsoft advisor, ran it, and it shows I
>> can upgrade to win 7 premium or ultimate...but not professional is this
>> correct?
>> Thanks, NP
>>

"np-nyc" <> wrote:

>I know this may be the wrong group, but I need a fast answer.
>I have Vista Home Premium running. I ordered Windows 7 Professional upgrade.
>I just now found the Microsoft advisor, ran it, and it shows I can upgrade
>to win 7 premium or ultimate...but not professional is this correct?

Yes. Your Home Premium edition contains features that are not in the
Professional edition, so that's not an upgrade path for you. Ultimate
has all features from all other versions, so that will work.

--
Tim Slattery

http://members.cox.net/slatteryt

Hi, Gordon.

> I think what it means is that you can't do an IN-PLACE upgrade.

Is this a new use for the phrase "in-place upgrade"? I've seen it more than
once today in these newsgroups.

In WinXP, I used the in-place upgrade several times - and many of us advised
users in WinXP newsgroups about when and how to do it. We generally
referred them to this KB article:
How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;q315341

(There are similar KB articles for Win2K and Windows Server 2003 - and maybe
other Windows versions.)

That article explained that, "An in-place upgrade is also named a repair
installation. This operation reinstalls Windows XP to the same folder on
your computer where it was originally installed. You may want to perform an
in-place upgrade if your installation of Windows XP must be repaired..." In
other words, an "in-place upgrade" repairs an existing installation; it does
not upgrade to a different version of Windows - or even a different version
of WinXP.

So an upgrade from any Vista version (Home Premium to Ultimate) to any OTHER
Vista version would not be an "in-place" upgrade. And neither would an
upgrade from any version of Vista (or WinXP) to any version of Windows 7.

If I've "missed the memo" about the new use of the term "in-place upgrade",
please educate me. ;^}

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64

"Gordon" <> wrote in message
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>
> "np-nyc" <> wrote in message
> news:FB30C43A-BDF1-4099-AE39-...
>> I know this may be the wrong group, but I need a fast answer.
>> I have Vista Home Premium running. I ordered Windows 7 Professional
>> upgrade. I just now found the Microsoft advisor, ran it, and it shows I
>> can upgrade to win 7 premium or ultimate...but not professional is this
>> correct?
>> Thanks, NP
>>
>
> I think what it means is that you can't do an IN-PLACE upgrade. You can do
> a clean install of Win 7 using Vista as a qualifying software.
> For a more definitive answer go here:
> http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...nstall/threads

"R. C. White" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi, Gordon.
>
>> I think what it means is that you can't do an IN-PLACE upgrade.
>
> Is this a new use for the phrase "in-place upgrade"? I've seen it more
> than once today in these newsgroups.

AFAIK there's never been more than one meaning of "in place upgrade". It
means upgrading an OS/application without removing the original first, thus
keeping all settings/data etc etc.

"Tim Slattery" <> wrote in message
news:...
> "np-nyc" <> wrote:
>
>>I know this may be the wrong group, but I need a fast answer.
>>I have Vista Home Premium running. I ordered Windows 7 Professional
>>upgrade.
>>I just now found the Microsoft advisor, ran it, and it shows I can upgrade
>>to win 7 premium or ultimate...but not professional is this correct?
>
> Yes. Your Home Premium edition contains features that are not in the
> Professional edition, so that's not an upgrade path for you. Ultimate
> has all features from all other versions, so that will work.
>
> --
> Tim Slattery
>
> http://members.cox.net/slatteryt

Win 7 Professional contains all features that are in Home Premium.
The only features Ultimate has that Pro doesn't, are BitLocker and
built-in support for 35 languages. That's why Ultimate Upgrade is
only 20 bucks more than Pro Upg.

Vista Business doesn't contain the mutimedia features of Vista
Home Premium.

Hi, Gordon.

"Gordon" <> wrote in message
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>
> "R. C. White" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Hi, Gordon.
>>
>>> I think what it means is that you can't do an IN-PLACE upgrade.
>>
>> Is this a new use for the phrase "in-place upgrade"? I've seen it more
>> than once today in these newsgroups.
>
> AFAIK there's never been more than one meaning of "in place upgrade". It
> means upgrading an OS/application without removing the original first,
> thus keeping all settings/data etc etc.

I believe that is simply a upgrade, without the "in-place" phrase.

If we are upgrading to a different location - or removing the original
installation and installing a new one on the same volume - then we may be
using an "Upgrade" retail package, but we are actually doing a "clean
install" with it.

While "in-place upgrades" were quite common with WinXP, it is my
understanding that they cannot be done with Vista. At least, not simply to
repair an existing installation, as with WinXP. (See KB article 968279 for
a limited application in Vista.)

But Bing gets lots of hits on "in-place +vista" (mostly from the Answers
forum), so maybe the use of the phrase is broadening and changing from what
I learned several years ago. And your interpretation of the phrase does
seem more logical than equating it to "repair".

Maybe someone will chime in and clarify this for all of us. ;^}

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64

R. C.

To me an "in place upgrade" means a Repair install. It always meant that for me but
as you point out RC the phrase is being used more and more to mean different things
like Upgrading to a different Windows version as an example.
So at this point I always need to read the post completely as to see what the OP
means when he uses the term "in place upgrade"

--
Peter

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"R. C. White" <> wrote in message
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> Hi, Gordon.
>
> "Gordon" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>
>> "R. C. White" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> Hi, Gordon.
>>>
>>>> I think what it means is that you can't do an IN-PLACE upgrade.
>>>
>>> Is this a new use for the phrase "in-place upgrade"? I've seen it more than
>>> once today in these newsgroups.
>>
>> AFAIK there's never been more than one meaning of "in place upgrade". It means
>> upgrading an OS/application without removing the original first, thus keeping all
>> settings/data etc etc.
>
> I believe that is simply a upgrade, without the "in-place" phrase.
>
> If we are upgrading to a different location - or removing the original
> installation and installing a new one on the same volume - then we may be using an
> "Upgrade" retail package, but we are actually doing a "clean install" with it.
>
> While "in-place upgrades" were quite common with WinXP, it is my understanding
> that they cannot be done with Vista. At least, not simply to repair an existing
> installation, as with WinXP. (See KB article 968279 for a limited application in
> Vista.)
>
> But Bing gets lots of hits on "in-place +vista" (mostly from the Answers forum),
> so maybe the use of the phrase is broadening and changing from what I learned
> several years ago. And your interpretation of the phrase does seem more logical
> than equating it to "repair".
>
> Maybe someone will chime in and clarify this for all of us. ;^}
>
> RC
> --
> R. C. White, CPA
> San Marcos, TX
>
> Microsoft Windows MVP
> Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64