Hi,
Pardon me, but reading this thread does this mean I can't get Vista Home Premium if I use multi processors?
What do I have to buy Vista Ultimate?

On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:50:17 -0500, "Tom Porterfield" <tpporter@mvps.org> wrote:

>seahawks_in_07 wrote:
>> Does anyone know why the in place upgrade from XP Pro to Vista Home
>> Premium isn't allowed? I don't understand why this upgrade path would
>> not be considered a normal and common upgrade for most people and I can't
>> figure out a technical reason for not doing it since they are both 32 bit
>> and support NTFS.
>
>There are features in XP Pro that are not in Vista Home Premium. Things
>such as support for two processors, EFS and others that prevent a clean way
>to do an in place upgrade from XP Pro to Vista Home Premium.
>
>> Anyway, I did the "Clean" install last night on my XP Pro and it worked
>> fine. It was a pain setting back up all the applications but whatever. I
>> would think at the very least the folks at MSFT would have provided a way
>> to migrate settings from my "windows.old" folder to the new installation
>> after the installation was totally done but I couldn't even find a way to
>> do that.
>
>You could have used Windows Easy Transfer prior to doing the install to help
>with some of this.
>
>> On the bright side, I love the new interface and once I got my
>> applications re-installed it works great. Only thing I need to learn to
>> do is turn off the millions of warnings that keep popping up when I move
>> "folders", install applications, etc.. A little too much if you ask me.
>
>Once you get a feel for how security works in Vista and what is protected I
>think you'll find those to be less annoying, or at least figure out how to
>get the same things done without triggering them. App install and much of
>the more advanced system configuration require you to go through a prompt,
>but you'll soon have most of your apps installed and the system configured
>so won't see those so much anymore.

Have a good day,
RScotti

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