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  1. Posts : 15
    Windows 7 Premium
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    Win7 Upgrade


    Question, my notebook is running win7-Home Premium edition. It has 104/160GB HDD free and 2.8/3GB Memory free. Now Im happy with Home Premium, but I also thought home premium was the top win7 out but i noticed when i looked at my system that i can upgrade to buisness or even Ultimate. Question is, would I benefit from upgrading to ultimate and if i do can i directly jump from Home to ultimate or do i have to step it up to ultimate? But from what i noticed, the only benefit of having ultimate is switching back and forth to XP (if you even wanna call that a benefit)

    Also if i upgrade, how do i do it, just input the cd key that I should recieve when I buy the upgrade or do i have to wipe the laptop out completely and do a fresh install? If I have to do a fresh install, ill have to ask how do I do that as well.

    Basically I just need a little feedback from anyone who has Home and ultimate, because in the end, I will base my decision off that.
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  2. Posts : 17,796
    Windows 10, Home Clean Install
       #2

    Top of the line is now always the best for all users. Here is a comparison chart of features

    Windows Vista: Compare editions

    Most members agree that Home Premium is the best for the average users. If any of the features listed in Ultimate is needed by you, that would be the best choice.

    It is generally agreed that if you do not need the encrytption feature Home Premium is the way to go.

    I use HP and am very satisfiedl
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  3. Posts : 4,517
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
       #3

    Senshi09 said:
    Question, my notebook is running win7-Home Premium edition. It has 104/160GB HDD free and 2.8/3GB Memory free. Now Im happy with Home Premium, but I also thought home premium was the top win7 out but i noticed when i looked at my system that i can upgrade to buisness or even Ultimate. Question is, would I benefit from upgrading to ultimate and if i do can i directly jump from Home to ultimate or do i have to step it up to ultimate? But from what i noticed, the only benefit of having ultimate is switching back and forth to XP (if you even wanna call that a benefit)

    Also if i upgrade, how do i do it, just input the cd key that I should recieve when I buy the upgrade or do i have to wipe the laptop out completely and do a fresh install? If I have to do a fresh install, ill have to ask how do I do that as well.

    Basically I just need a little feedback from anyone who has Home and ultimate, because in the end, I will base my decision off that.

    Only you can answer that question for yourself.

    Have a look here to see the differences:
    Compare, buy Windows 7 software from Microsoft Store

    For me & most everyone, HP is all thats needed. That may or may not be the case for you.

    Hope this helps. Good luck :)
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  4. Posts : 13,354
    Windows 7 Professional x64
       #4

    For most users, Home Premium is the way to go. Personally, I use a couple of features found in Professional (mainly, Remote Desktop hosting).
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  5.    #5

    The way to upgrade within Win7 versions is to buy Anytime Upgrade key, insert it and the extra features unlock.

    I do not notice any differences between Ultimate and Premium. Since I use TeamViewer I do not need to initiate Remote Desktop, am not interested in VIrtual Machine or Bitlocker.

    Check and compare the features for yourself as suggested earlier.
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  6. Posts : 233
    Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
       #6

    It really is only a decision you can make. One substantial benefit of moving forward from Home Premium, is being able to use XP Mode (available only to Professional, Ultimate, and Enterprise users) - Windows 7 features - Windows XP Mode - Microsoft Windows

    Cheers,
    Cassandra
    Microsoft Windows Outreach
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  7. Posts : 369
    Windows 7
       #7

    The problem with Home Premium is the lack of networking support. Sure there are reg hacks around it, but having to still authenticate to a mapped network drive on Win XP to a Win 7 machine is silly.

    I'm considering upgrading to professional.
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  8. Posts : 5,795
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
       #8

    motc7 said:
    but having to still authenticate to a mapped network drive on Win XP to a Win 7 machine is silly.
    I'm not sure if an upgrade would solve your issue. It would be much easier to just use the same username/password combo, and making sure the systems are in the same workgroup. That's how it always worked for non-domain networks.
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  9. Posts : 369
    Windows 7
       #9

    DeaconFrost said:
    motc7 said:
    but having to still authenticate to a mapped network drive on Win XP to a Win 7 machine is silly.
    I'm not sure if an upgrade would solve your issue. It would be much easier to just use the same username/password combo, and making sure the systems are in the same workgroup. That's how it always worked for non-domain networks.
    I have. It (XP) loses connection to the network drive, which is on Windows 7.
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  10. Posts : 5,795
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
       #10

    Is it a power-save feature on the XP machine in the NIC card properties?
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