The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Windows Vista Inquiry - Ultimate/Home Prem

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Yuna.Fire, Mar 4, 2008.

  1. Yuna.Fire

    Yuna.Fire Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    25
    Messages:
    104
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    So, I acquired Vista Ultimate mainly for the Dreamscene Extra. I've no problems with Ultimate or anything, so this isn't a 'omg Vista sucks' rant. Rather, I learned that Stardock released Deskscapes 2.0, which enables Dreamscene to run on all versions of Vista with Aero.

    My thinking is Home Premium, with less features than Ultimate, would be better for my system cpu/ram wise.

    Here's my inquiry: could I downgrade to Home Premium from Ultimate WITHOUT losing any of my data? Or would that require a clean install? Thank you.
     
    Yuna.Fire, Mar 4, 2008
    #1
  2. coolguy

    coolguy Notebook Prophet

    Reputations:
    805
    Messages:
    4,679
    Likes Received:
    12
    Trophy Points:
    106
    You have to buy a home premium license to install home premium. You cannot downgrade from ultimate.
     
    coolguy, Mar 4, 2008
    #2
  3. ScifiMike12

    ScifiMike12 Drinking the good stuff

    Reputations:
    801
    Messages:
    2,529
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    I believe you're going to run into a 'Cannot Upgrade to Home Premium' message. You're best bet is to reformat and install Home Premium.

    To be honest, there isn't much difference between the two. And if you are paying $$$ for another OS that is basically the same, why bother?

    You can vLite some of those features out ya know. ;)
     
    ScifiMike12, Mar 4, 2008
    #3
  4. Yuna.Fire

    Yuna.Fire Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    25
    Messages:
    104
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    I'm certain $$$ is an issue. But, lets ignore the money involved, shall we? ;)

    vLite... hmmm. This isn't familiar. Elaborate?
     
    Yuna.Fire, Mar 4, 2008
    #4
  5. Lithus

    Lithus NBR Janitor

    Reputations:
    5,504
    Messages:
    9,788
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    205
    You won't gain anything downgrading to HP. If you're worried about CPU/RAM usage, just disable what you don't use.
     
    Lithus, Mar 4, 2008
    #5
  6. R4000

    R4000 Notebook Virtuoso

    Reputations:
    736
    Messages:
    2,762
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    I would agree here, as I myself saw little difference in cpu/ram utilization between Home Premium and Home Basic (contrary to what the pc mfgrs claim)......
     
    R4000, Mar 4, 2008
    #6
  7. nobscot6

    nobscot6 Wise One

    Reputations:
    419
    Messages:
    1,364
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    yes, foolish to think about going to HP in my opinion

    I have run and installed both, many times

    Ultimate is fine, don't worry. Plus you can use the backp option for your files and complete drive/partition.
     
    nobscot6, Mar 4, 2008
    #7