Upgrade to Vista Ultimate erases bloatware?

I just got my dv6500t and am wanting to upgrade the native home premium to vista ultimate. If I pop the Ultimate DVD into my reader right now and follow all the steps, will the laptop erase the bloatware or just 'carry' it and my documents over?

*I can't do the "Clean Install W/o Activation" b.c I don't have any retail vista copies or anytime upgrade dvds.. the Vista Ultimate I have is for $25 through my college and is some special kind of version I think..

Btw, on my windows experience score, I'm getting a low 3.1 rating for graphics despite the 8400 card. What gives?

 

Memory? How is your hard drive?

 

it will carry over ur stuff if you do an upgrade

 

Ah damnit.. I feared as much. Can I use my Ultimate Upgrade DVD for the clean install or do I need to get my hands on an Anytime Upgrade/Retail Copy?

 

Hi guys,

I bought the Asus G2S and I have Home Premium 32bit on it. I also have an original 64bit Vista Ultimate. (I also have a 32 upgrade disc). I don't want to clean install. Is there some way that I could use my Vista Ultimate key in the any time upgrade to install Ultimate?
And desimc89 were you able to upgrade how did you do it?

 

I would be very surprised if the disc you have is not the same as an anytime upgrade disc. They probably just put a different label on it. What is the purpose of the disc you got from the college? It has to be either an upgrade disc (from some version of XP or some version of Vista), or it needs to be a full install disc. Otherwise, what use would it be?

If you reinstall and format the drive, then you will lose all data, but you will also clean out the bloatware. Make sure to back up first! If you don't format, you won't lose your data, but the machine will be a mess.

As for the Windows Experience score, I saw the same thing on my 8400. Basically, the card just isn't that great. The gaming score is a little better, so if you play games, it should work OK.

 

I upgraded my Home Premium to a retail version of Ultimate without problems. I must warn you that it will take a "long" time to do so... about 2 hours! I thought to myself afterwards to just have done a clean install but then again I had to deal with installing the current drivers from the manufacturer (HP).

 

It takes the same amount of time to upgrade as to do a clean install. If you upgrade, it takes Vista time to collect all your data and put it into windows.old. If you clean install, it takes time to format the drive and then reinstall drivers.

As far as the WEI is concerned, don't bother.

 

The WEI is just a superficial benchmark. Go test games on it to determine it's actual power or just run Windows Aero and see if you get any lag. To me, a score of 3.0 and 5.9 are the same if it's applying to Windows Aero because that just means it'll run smoothly.

 

The WEI takes the lowest score.. for mine the nVidia card rates a 3. Others are higher. Turning off the Aero doesn't make any difference since the video is the culprit.

 

Yes, because microsoft left a big flaw in their system. Since it's the upgrade, it's a retail copy. Therre is only 2 vista disk for retail, 1 32bits and 1 64bits. The CD-KEY decides wich version you have

http://www.techwrighter.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=67&Itemid=27

 

It's not exactly a "big flaw" in the system. That's pretty much how it's supposed to work. The system only installs the version that you have the right serial number for... pretty straightforward. The "upgrade" process is supposed to allow you to upgrade from XP to Vista, and still keep all your settings. If you want to do a clean install, then you don't really need to bother with the upgrade.

Also, that guide tells you to disable UAC as the first "tweak". That's completely unnecessary and has nothing to do with the activation. That author simply finds UAC annoying, and decided to tell everyone to disable it just because he doesn't like it.