Win7 Upgrade

[Senshi09]

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.

 

[richc46]

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

 

[Wishmaster]

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

 

[Jonathan_King]

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

 

[gregrocker]

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.

 

[CassieFWinTeam]

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

 

[motc7]

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.

 

[DeaconFrost]

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.

 

[motc7]

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.

 

[DeaconFrost]

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

 

[Fantail]

I think Senshi09's laptop given the specs is fine with home premium-32.