Re: Re - Windows 7 Professional upgrade from Vista Home Edition

No, but as long as your staying with the same "bitness" (32-bit to 32-bit or
64 to 64) you can do an in-place upgrade from Vista Home Premium to 7 Home
Premium. The in-place upgrade should preserve your applications, data, and
settings but things like drivers would have to be re-installed. As with all
upgrades, make a backup first or at a minimum use the user transfer wizard
to copy data & settings to a USB or network drive.

Once on Win7 HP you can do an Anytime Upgrade to move from HP to Pro or
Ultimate.

Unfortunately, MS does not list a direct upgrade path from Vista HP to 7
Pro:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/help/upgrading-from-windows-vista-to-windows-7

So I would suggest either using the Pro license for another machine or
biting the bullet and doing a clean install.


On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:16 AM, <DLee@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

John Jones

You have me interested.

<Anytime upgrades are not in-place upgrades. When you install HP, you're
really installing everything needed for Professional & Ultimate. An
Anytime
Upgrade simply unlocks the features. You don't have to re-install
Windows:>

Does this mean I can go from my vista home premium to a win 7 home premium
using win anytime

Don't know if you noticed the other dialogs on this subject, but I
purchased a Win 7 professional in the box, and looking for an easy path to
get my
vista home premium replaced with win 7 prof.

I'm not sure exactly how anytime update works.

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