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Win7 Home Premium upgrade over the RC
About six months back, I bought a laptop from Toshiba that came with Vista on it. The tech guy who was helping me get all set up said that as long as I was making the learning curve from XP, I really should go right to Win7. Rick said he had a beta version and we could make the full switch to the full release when the free upgrade came out. Sounded fine to me.
Well, he disappeared to Colorado somewhere not long afterward, never finishing a number of parts of the job and being completely unfindable. But at least I had a nice PC to use for some things...until this week when a warning came up saying the Windows 7 Ultimate (build 7100) had 13 days left til it would expire! Rick added a bunch of customizing to the laptop and I've done a bunch more in all this time...it would be just HORRIBLE to lose it all if I had to reinstall everything on my laptop because of a new operating system installation. What's more, since the computer came with Vista on it already, I'm not sure how I'd go about reinstalling Vista even if I had to. Which I sure don't want to do!
So...
1) Is there a way to make the leap from Windows 7 Ultimate (build 7100) to any version of Win7 to resolve this problem without starting from scratch? Ideally, with a free upgrade or, if absolutely necessary, by buying something to do so? Seems it should be free since I paid for the laptop with Vista on it.
2) If Rick's choice to put me on Windows 7 Ultimate (build 7100) was a big mistake, how can I move forward from here when I didn't receive a Vista disk from Toshiba? I do have one that Rick left behind that says Vista Enterprise on it, but I'm not 100% sure he pulled it off my system.
Please keep in mind in your response that I'm okay around a computer but NOT a tech guru.
Thanks!