Vista Business to Win 7 Home Premium Upgrade


  1. Charliew
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    Vista Business to Win 7 Home Premium Upgrade


    I am currently using Vista Business and want to install Windows 7 Home Premium.
    Upgrade Advisor does not show Home Premium as an upgrade but I don't need anything more than that and don't want to pay the full price for what is basically a downgrade.

    It doesn't make sense that I would have to pay for a full version of Home Premium when I already have a Vista Business version.

    Does anyone have an answer to this problem.

    Thanks,
    Charlie
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  3. wallyinnc
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    Hi Charlie
    Look on this thread and this post
    If you have a Vista License, you are entitled to using an Upgrade version of Win7. Yuo will have to do a clean install, you are not allowed to do an in-place upgrade from Business to Home Premium (unless you want to tweak your installation files or your registry, which I don't recommend, a clean istall is a better way to go anyway)

    Let me know if you need additional info
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