"Upgrade" Vista Home Premium (OEM) to Vista Home Premium (Retail Upgrade)

Discussion in 'Windows Vista General Discussion' started by genkuro, Feb 5, 2007.

  1. genkuro

    genkuro Guest

    Hi -

    Can I upgrade Vista Home Premum (OEM) to Vista Home Premium (Retail
    Upgrade)? I realize this is theoretically the same product. I'm
    looking to replace a polluted OEM version of Vista produced by HP.

    Thanks for any advice.
     
    genkuro, Feb 5, 2007
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  2. genkuro

    Richard Urban Guest

    To get rid of the background pollution, caused by the hardware
    manufacturers, you would have to perform a clean install. Why don't you get
    a plain vanilla OEM version for about half the price of retail? It is
    basically retail without any M/S support. You are your own support.

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    Richard Urban
    Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
    (For email, remove the obvious from my address)

    Quote from George Ankner:
    If you knew as much as you think you know,
    You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
     
    Richard Urban, Feb 5, 2007
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