Friday, June 22, 2007

Upgrade from Vista Home Premium to Ultimate

My home computer has been on Vista Home Premium for a few months. Everything running smooth except lacking the whole system backup feature which is available on my laptop with Vista Business version.

Since my parents-in-law will come soon, I like to set up an account that has Chinese display base on my English version core. So I decided to upgrade to Vista Ultimate that can provide me these two features I need.

I first tried upgrade installation that took about two hours. Everything is fine except daemon tool giving error message. This sounds scary to me by recalling how much I have suffered to fix daemon tool during first Vista installation. So after backuped everthing on C, I did a fresh installation. The fresh installation is really like breeze, take me only a little bit more that half hour to finish everything.

However, I was stuck at activation by either online or automatic phone activation. So I talked to a Mirosoft agent, get the activation code within 5 minutes (It is 7am in the morning, so probably the best time to call a call center).

Next few steps is install my core software, Adobe photoshop, Microsoft Office, daemon tool, skype, etc. So far everything is very smooth. Creating account with Chinese display is also very straight forward.

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