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Home Premium and Professional switcheroo
Does anyone know if I can use a Home Premium product key to activate an install done from a Professional DVD in order to just get Home Premium (not Professional) functionality?
Here's what happened. I had ordered but not yet received a Home Premium Upgrade retail box. In the meantime, I used a Professional DVD to upgrade my laptop (which was running Vista). I entered but I have not yet activated the Pro product key, and am still in the 30 day trial period.
I now want to use the same Pro DVD to upgrade a desktop machine (currently running XP Pro) to Win7 Pro and put the recently purchased Home Premium on the laptop. I would like to do this with without having to do a destructive Home Premium install on the laptop. I will then activate both the desktop and the laptop with the correct product keys.
Make sense? Is it possible?
TIA
Jacob