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I've purchased a new system that ships with Vista Premium 64bit installed. I am a Microsoft Partner and have a Vista Ultimate 64 bit disk, and intend to upgrade the new PC once it arrives. I've always been an advocate of clean installs as opposed to upgrades, but since this is nothing more than a version upgrade I'm wondering if there really is any reason not to do an in-place upgrade of the OS.
I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who has actually done an upgrade from one version of Vista to another to hear if there were any issues after the fact. Thanks very much in advance.
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I am also in your situation but with Vista Business, not Home Basic or Home Premium.
I do have Vista Ultimate but the disks [both versions] came from the Consumer Preview Program [a Beta thing].
With Business I did the install [clean] but did not enter the CD Key then reinstalled over itself and entered the key, seems to be fine on 2 Desktops and one Notebook. The process has been commonly available on the 'net.
This is the page I used:
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_upgrade_clean.asp
I think that with Vista you could do the same, install Ultimate over Home Basic or Home Premium [can't go the other way]. It should be the same as upgrading WinXP Home Edition to WinXP Professional.
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Berton (11/19/2008)
It should be the same as upgrading WinXP Home Edition to WinXP Professional.That was exactly my thought. Thanks Berton.
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You're welcome, good luck.
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I can confirm the install of Vista Business as a full install without the product key and then installing it again as the Upgrade I acutally purchased. HTH
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Thanks AD, but what I'm most interested in is hearing from someone who has actually done an in-place Vista version upgrade to find out if there is any performance difference between that and a clean install.
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Im sure you could. I don't have a spare system to try it on, but you could try to take a Vista DVD and do a clean install, use no product key and select a lower version for that clean install. then boot into windows and try to upgrade there. A virtual pc app could prob let you figure that out as well. Just ideas 
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I'm just assuming that I can use a FULL version of Ultimate 64 to do the upgrade, just as is the case with XP, and that I don't need an upgrade disk.
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I don't think that is possible. If I remember right, Vista cried when I tried the full version to do the upgrade. I could be wrong though. :P
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