upgrade from premium to ultimate possible?

I purchased my XPS m1330 with home premium but now im kinda regretting it and want to upgrade to ultimate. I plan to purchase a windows anytime upgrade from microsoft which cost about CAD$200 plus the cd, but I dunno if this will work on a dell laptop. Any thoughts?

 

I don't see why not. I've thought of the Business > Ultimate upgrade myself, and that is the understanding that I got after reading the documentation/site literature.

 

why do you want ultimate? the only real difference between the two for a consumer is that ultimate have that stupid dreamscene and that file encryption locker.

I had Ultimate before, than I wiped that sucker and installed Home basic instead, no real benefit but hugs more system resources and HD space

 

There is no real point to Ultimate go look at a chart and you get two things some Data recovery stuff (worthless) and some more system admin features (worthless for most people) Home premium has everything you need.

 

I heard that only business and ultimate supports multiple-language user interface and with home premium I won't be able to work with programs in other languages(Chinese) since it can't even display the language.

"Licensing requirements state that versions of the Windows Vista operating system can include only a single language, with the exception of the Windows Vista™ Ultimate and the Windows Vista™ Enterprise editions. For editions other than Windows Vista Ultimate and Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows will automatically remove all non-default languages from the computer after the end user completes the Windows Welcome."

 

:confused2: I don't want to spend an extra $200 bucks just for ultimate but I guess I have no choice. Microsoft certainly didn't say anything about the fact that home premium only supports one display language...it's also not in the compare editions chart.

 

any suggestions?:confused2:

 

What do you do with your system??

Are you aware that ultimate is the only version that lets you make an entire system backup??? Yup!!!!

If you use your system extensively, this in itself is worth the upgrade.

Ever try replacing a HD after your went dead and having Dell tell you to reinstall all the files?? lol

Yes it will work.

 

never had a harddrive failure in my past 10 years.

there are free softwares that can do such complete harddrive copies.

 

If you wanted to test Ultimate on your system, install it using the anytime upgrade (which can be downloaded from the microsoft website), but you have skip the part where it asks you for the product key. It will work for 30 days (which you can extend up to 120 days). But if you decided not to keep Ultimate, you have to backup your files and just restore your system to its factory settings by pressing F8 before booting to windows..

 

Microsoft data backup and recovery tools have been absolutely dreadful for the last decade. I would never consider a MS created backup tool to be an effective feature to rely on.

 

When you do a complete system Backup with Ultimate, how does it work? Do you back up to some partition? Or to DVD?

 

I have been doing complete disk backups on several systems since Ultimate came out and with RC2.

Mind you, the systems in use go through harsh usage conditions and i have seen the system dump a number of times....only to be replaced with the disk backup not a prob.

I dont know why their would be naysayers here...There are software programs that do disk backups of the entire system; they are pricey or difficult if free.

This backup is for the user who experiments and wants to know that, if he or she does something wrong, then the disks can be used to simply restore the system to what it was.

Lets say for example, one wants to do a dual or tri boot setup, the backup disks are comfort that you are not lost when all is done.

Further, they dont only backup windows, but rather, your system. So...if you setup a duel boot system successfully, the Ultimate backup will backup your whole system.

 

Well take System Restore for example. The number of people that got completely burned attempting to recover a system with that tool was astounding in my experience. System Restore working when people needed it to was the exception and not the norm.

Between the releases of Windows ME and XP SP1 I was working at a local dial up and broadband ISP/PC repair shop. Three things were common there: #1 People would get stuck with a virus, #2 Norton would completely screw up or fail to protect a PC (see also #1), and #3 System Restore failed when people tried to fix #1 and #2 on their own. Often people would try System Restore to fix one infected file, and the OS would get hosed.

I understand the new backup system works completely different, however when it comes to any data I feel is important, I will use a non MS product to backup or protect it. Its fine and all that the new Vista backup works for some people, personally I am not going to be using it

 

The answer to the OP's question is yes. Whether or not he or she needs it was not part of the question.