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    Windows 7 ultimate upgrade

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by ohsohigh, Aug 13, 2011.

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    ohsohigh Notebook Enthusiast

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    So I just got an XPS 15 and it has Windows 7 home premium on it. My university offers a free Windows 7 ultimate upgrade. I was wondering what is involved in such an upgrade. Would it wipe anything I have put on the computer and require to proceed as if I had done a clean install of the OS or does it just add the features that ultimate offers with little or no hassle?
     
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    Hey!

    You may want to try/checkout this link:
    Microsoft Details How to Upgrade Between Windows 7 SKUs | PCWorld Business Center

    It looks like it will take 10 minutes and won't disrupt your current programs or settings.
     
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    ohsohigh Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thank you very much. That article was very helpful and cleared up my questions.
     
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    No problem! :) Glad it was able to help you out! :cool:
     
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    Thats one lovely thing of Vista and Windows 7. Just got my Dell XPS 15 and used windows anytime upgrade to Windows 7 Pro. Took about 6min
     
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    hyelton Notebook Consultant

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    Here is a screenshot of a few min agolol
     

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    Shadow_Shooter Notebook Guru

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    What would someone want in Windows Ultimate which is different than in Home Premium? I'm genuinely wondering...
     
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    I did the same when the upgrade was combo-ed with the M4 SSD I got such that it cost me $13 LESS to get it with the drive than to just get the drive...easy procedure, no data loss, simple workage.

    XP Mode (Pro and up), Domain join (pro and up), Bitlocker (Ult), and a few other things I can't remember. Me, I use XP Mode at times, having Pro is nice. Plus it can do dynamic disc spanning which came in handy when I didn't want to transfer data off my old HDD to reformat it and copy it back. Just deleted the Windows partition and spanned the whole disc into one volume. Apparently that is a Professional and up feature, one I didn't know about at the time!
     
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    Professional and Ultimate just adds a bunch of administrative tools in the Control Panel and several mostly useless features. Those tools are really useful sometimes when trying to fix problems.
     
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    A few programs (like SAS) do not support Windows 7 Home Premium - they will only run on Professional or Ultimate versions of Windows 7. Perhaps it has something to do with different physical memory limits. Home Premium supports only up to 16GB of ram, whereas Professional and Ultimate support up to 192GB of ram.
     
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