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Can I do a clean install using Vista Ultimate upgrade?
My computer is broken, so formatting the drive and want to buy this version of Vista Ultimate Upgrade to do a clean installation. Is it just to improve or I do a clean install also? Thanks
Well, it seems that those who hope to make a clean installation of Windows Vista with an upgrade-only edition of the operating system may not be totally out of Fortunately, after all, but still have to jump through a few hoops to do so. According to Daily Tech, you can get around that requirement annoying to have Windows XP or Windows 2000 installed on your PC instead of using the upgrade DVD to install an early version of 30-day trial of Vista – that 's simply does not enter the product key when prompted to do so during installation. Once you have the trial version of Vista running, simply start the installation process again from within Vista, this time entering the product key when prompted. After this is done, you should be looking cleanly-installed, a fully functioning version of Vista, not once having set foot in Windows XP or 2000. As Daily Tech points out, this would suggest that any DVD update Windows Vista can run as a copy of total sales of Vista, but also seems to be something that Microsoft could put the fret on pretty quickly, so you may not want to lose sight of the copy of your old operating system yet. _______________________________________________ How clean installation of Windows Vista with the upgrade Media When I began researching the various options for installing Windows Vista by the end of last year, Microsoft and its representative was silent and seemed to begin respond selectively to my questions. Previously, Microsoft had said that Vista's upgrade experience would be similar to that of XP: You'd be able to perform in-place upgrade using the Vista Upgrade media or, with qualifying media (ie Windows 2000 or XP CD-ROM), you could use media update to perform a clean installation. When rumors began surfacing that Vista Upgrade versions would not support facilities clean, however, a veil of silence fell over Redmond. These rumors grew louder as broad release date of Vista on 30 January 2007 is approaching. And finally, Microsoft dropped the bomb: The weekend before the release of Vista, the company sent a support note quietly on your site ominously titled installation keys update crashes when started from the Windows Vista DVD, Microsoft explains: "Windows Vista does not check upgrade compliance. You can not use an upgrade key to perform a clean installation of Windows Vista. "The support note recommends that users who run this the first issue of installing a compatible version of Windows first (ie Windows 2000, XP or Vista) and then run Setup from within that install, upgrade the operating system to the new version. Or, you could simply purchase a full product license. Hey, there are some good tips. The reaction in the Windows community was predictably swift and conclusive. Obviously, Microsoft was disabling this previously handy option for users of inconvenience (at best) or force them to spend more money on a full version the product (at worst). Either way, the company had withdrawn a quick, silent taking out a feature that we had all come to know and expect. Well, it turns out that the media Windows Vista Upgrade of fact can be used to perform a clean install of the operating system, at least sort of. Using a paperless solution that I first revealed in WinInfo News earlier this week, you can fool any Upgrade version of Windows Vista in installed on a PC without installing an operating system update before. Here's how. Step 1: Install Windows Vista Boot your PC with the Windows Vista Upgrade DVD. After the preliminary loading screen, click the Install Now button to activate Vista installation. On the next screen, you normally enter your product key. However, there is a little-known trick in Windows Vista installation whereby you can simply skip this phase and use the installation media (or the update Full, any version) to do a clean install of virtually any product edition of Windows Vista. What it does is leave the key field blank product, uncheck the option titled "Automatically activate Windows when online" and then click Next. Vista Setup will ask if you want to enter your product key before proceeding. Click No. In the next setup screen, you are presented with a list of Windows product editions Vista will install. This list may vary from locality to locality, but in the U.S., you'll see Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, and some editions N. Choose product edition that really counts. You are prompted to verify that you have chosen the correct version. Do so to continue beyond the User License Final (EULA) screen. On the next screen, select the type of installation. Select Custom (advanced) instead of the upgrade. Then choose the partition to which to install Windows Vista. If you must format the disk, select the drive options (advanced), the option to do so, and then continue. Now, Setup copies the Vista install image on your PC, expands and installs Windows. This phase of Setup should take about 15 to 20 minutes and cause at least a restart. When you install Vista, you step through the penultimate phase of the installation in introducing in succession, your user name and password, computer name and the date, time and time zone. Then Setup runs its final task, a performance test might have about 5 minutes. If all goes well, and is running fairly modern hardware, you must hit the welcome screen and after login, the desktop of Vista, the new under 30 minutes after having started this process. Step 2: Upgrade What you installed is decidedly temporary. You have 30 days during which you can run this non-activated the version of Windows Vista. If you try to activate Windows now, it will fail, because you have made a clean installation of Vista and only has an upgrade product key. What do I do? If you read Microsoft's support note carefully, you will have seen that the upgrade versions of support for Vista update "A compatible version of Windows, including Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Windows 2000." Well, you've just installed Windows Vista, so why Why not upgrade from this install? That's right: You will update the non-activated clean install you just made, which will offer a version of the system operation that may, in fact, activation. To do this, just open your computer and double click the icon for the DVD drive containing the Vista upgrade media communication. Run Setup again, this time from within Vista. Select Install Now and then, "No you the latest updates Setup "on the next screen. Then, today known products being Key, enter your product key.'s in the back of the withdrawal Vista packaging. You can choose to automatically activate Windows when online or not is your choice. On the next screen, accept the Windows EULA. Now, choose update. Windows will install as before, although you may notice that it takes a little longer this time. (Install the update seem to take up to 45 minutes, compared 30 minutes or less with clean installs, and restarts at least one additional time.) Because you just completed an upgrade installation, not be asked to enter your username and so on (only the time zone screen is presented). Instead, enough to run directly to the Welcome screen when the performance monitoring is complete. Using the username and password you created during the first installation, logon to Windows. Again, you 30 days to activate Vista. However, this activation time work: To activate Vista immediately (unless told to do so during installation), open Click Start, right-click Computer and select Properties. Then in the bottom of the system window that appears, click the link that says Activate Windows now. Is this legal? Of course one could ask whether the above described action is legal or ethical. After all, anyone could buy a version Windows Vista update (thus saving a lot of money when compared with a full version) and use it to perform a clean installation, even unless you have a previous version works on Windows. After telling my "Windows Vista Secrets" coauthor Brian Livingston about this solution, who wrote that the use of this process was made ethically in his opinion. "Microsoft created the upgrade process," he wrote in an article in the newsletter the description of the solution. "The company designed Vista to support the improvement over a previously installed copy of XP, W2K Pro, or Vista itself. This is not a black hat hacker exploit. It's something that has been deliberately programmed into the approved setup routine. "Okay. Of course, if you use this solution to clean install Windows Vista with the Upgrade media, and you do not have a precedent, the supported version of Windows, you probably violating the Windows EULA and, therefore violating the law. Proceed at your own risk. Final Thoughts This is an interesting and viable solution for anyone who owns an earlier version Windows, but want to do a clean install of the operating system on your existing hardware. Although I am a little nervous about legal implications and the ability of Microsoft to cut this process in the future, I am glad that innocent Windows upgraders do in fact have all the options that were available to them in earlier versions of Windows. For his part in this nonsense, Microsoft gets a virtual coup in the wrist: Sometimes, it seems, the company forgets that Windows is expensive and paying customers should be can easily install the new operating system without the added clutter of a previous Windows installation. All the best:)
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