"A" wrote
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>I upgraded XP Pro to Vista Home Premium. Using it to write this message
>right now.
>
> "Lakesidezx" <lakesidezx@nowhere.net> wrote in message
> news:5527EDAC-A946-4303-8F58-9F962EC8C943@microsoft.com...[color=green]
>> It may not be news for some folks around here but it really gets my goat
>> when I go to the store and buy the Vista Home Premium edition upgrade
>> because the box says something like needs windows 2k, or xp or vista to
>> use this edition.
>>
>> Good enough, I have XP Pro on my computer so I buy it only to find out
>> later that vista tells me you have the wrong edition, if you want to
>> upgrade xp pro to vista then you need the vista business edition, not the
>> home premium edition.
>> Of course it gave me the option to do a fresh install (and I did) but
>> that was NOT what *I* wanted to do.
>>
>> Had I wanted the business edition of vista then I would have bought that,
>> but I didn't want that.
>>
>> Well......
>>
>> Back to reinstalling everything.[/color][/color]

VHP cannot do an in place upgrade over XP Pro. You can install VHP using
the upgrade edition with XP Pro installed as the qualifying OS, but it will
only do a custom install. What the OP was upset about is that it will not
do an in place upgrade, migrating programs and data. Be careful about word
usage. Eligibility to use an upgrade edition does not mean that upgrade
edition can do an in place upgrade. It depends on which versions are the
qualifying OS and the Vista upgrade.

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Rock [MVP - User/Shell]