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Upgrading Windows Business to Windows Ultimate Vista or so...

Postby ~DJ~ » Sat Aug 29, 09 5:22 pm

Hey!



Just wanted to know that if I upgrade my windows, lets just say any windows version to any windows vista version, is it okay?

I've heard about it being buggy and lots of problems, is that right?


I want serious opinions, so just asking ya all.


So, what you guys say?


Thanks in advance!
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Postby Alex » Sat Aug 29, 09 5:30 pm

Why not try Windows 7?
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Postby Dae » Sat Aug 29, 09 6:15 pm

DJ, judging by this and the other topic, I think you overestimate differences between editions of Vista.

You can see the comparison chart here,
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/window ... fault.aspx

The only benefit of Ultimate worth mentioning, is that it can work with two physical processors (not cores), but it's a very rare combination and is used only on expensive professional workstations.

Other than that, there is no difference between Home Premium / Business / Ultimate in terms of gaming availability or performance. Drivers for devices are the same for any edition. Vista flavors vary only by the amount of software included. Most of that software you won't use anyway.
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Postby Professor Layton » Sat Aug 29, 09 7:46 pm

LOL WHAT, 6th from below for Vista Ultimate "Better protect your data against loss" That doesn't sound good AT ALL :lol:
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Postby ~DJ~ » Sat Aug 29, 09 11:00 pm

Dae wrote:Other than that, there is no difference




But why is that there is no 'game' tab thingie at Business?

I wanted Chess and stuff too, but there is none at this version.


Well, my basic question was:

Is upgrading safe or not?


Weather I do it from an upgrade pack, or the official CD?
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Postby Dae » Sat Aug 29, 09 11:23 pm

~DJ~ wrote:But why is that there is no 'game' tab thingie at Business?

I wanted Chess and stuff too, but there is none at this version.

So you want to upgrade JUST because of default games?
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Postby ~DJ~ » Sun Aug 30, 09 12:12 pm

No, not really, I've heard about KOTOR running in Ultimate rather than business versions. :o
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Postby Mr. Tastix » Sun Aug 30, 09 12:28 pm

Why not run it in Windows 7? Works in that, I know, I've played it lol.
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Postby ~DJ~ » Sun Aug 30, 09 3:38 pm

Okay, okay!


Now the question changes, if I upgrade, rather than formatting, will it be buggy?


shall I upgrade or format and completely install new windows?
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Postby Mr. Tastix » Sun Aug 30, 09 10:50 pm

If you're going to upgrade to Windows 7 you CAN upgrade from Vista. But it's way easier to just backup your data, saved games, pictures, music, videos etc and then reformat. Faster too, from my experience.
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