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win.7 home premium and win7 ultimate
david - 5/12/09 at 11:37 PM

I have win.7 home premium on my computor and would like to upgrade to win.7 ultimate. can I overwrite the premium with the ultinate or what way do I go about it.Dont want to lose what is in the home premium. Any one out there wave an answer. David

Staple balls - 6/12/09 at 03:37 AM

Don't microsoft offer an in-place upgrade thinger?

imp paul - 6/12/09 at 08:29 AM

i run windows 7 ultimate and find it to be glitchy just looks nice

OX - 6/12/09 at 06:32 PM

I have windows 7 ulimate as a full install and it runs smooth , iv just booted up an old hard drive with xp and everything seems so slow..

david ,,buy a 500gig hard drive for less than £40 and put your new w7 ultimate on that and then drag everything you need off your other hard drive to the new one .

i use overclockers as its only 20 mins drive away but they do a good delivery service

www.overclockers.co.uk

[Edited on 6/12/09 by OX]

MikeRJ - 7/12/09 at 10:25 AM

quote:
Originally posted by OX
I have windows 7 ulimate as a full install and it runs smooth , iv just booted up an old hard drive with xp and everything seems so slow..


Not really a fair comparison, an old installation of XP will be chocked up with all sorts of crap. A fresh install of XP will still run faster than Windows 7.

Ivan - 7/12/09 at 08:16 PM

Slightly OT but I recently put new hard drive with XP on my laptop instead of the Vista it had -(Clean install) and find the XP noticebly slower than the Vista ???????

Back to your question - Maybe it will depend on whether you upgrade to 64 bit OS

[Edited on 7/12/09 by Ivan]

Marcus - 8/12/09 at 12:46 PM

With win 7 you have the anytime upgrade service whic Microsoft sat will take 10 minutes to upgrade any install of win 7 to any other. Not tried it as I have Ultimate, but I'm finding it noticeably quicker than a relatively fresh XP install.
And it's pretty