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February 7th 07, 08:31 PM
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Dell Vista Express Upgrade
What are the differences between Vista Express Upgrade and Vista
Retail? Is the Express Upgrade a piggyback installation? Is the Express Upgrade generic to all manufacturers? Hmmm. Thanks in advance for your insight. 
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February 7th 07, 08:43 PM
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Dell Vista Express Upgrade
wrote in message oups.com... What are the differences between Vista Express Upgrade and Vista Retail? Is the Express Upgrade a piggyback installation? Is the Express Upgrade generic to all manufacturers? Hmmm. Thanks in advance for your insight. Until I see one, I have no way of knowing and doubt anyone does. My guesses: Upgrade requires a previous installation of an OS, so the theory is that it has to be an XP upgrade. Feeding the XP disk isn't enough anymore. However, I recently read of a trick to do a clean install. If you install Vista and don't give it a product key, it installs in 'test mode'. You have to put your key in within 30 days. If you then immediately RE-install Vista on top of itself and give it your key, it will authorize as an upgrade, therefore giving you a clean install. Vista will evidently upgrade itself. I plan on trying it as soon as I get it. 2) I would expect that Dell's will be customized, if for no other reason to slipstream some drivers. That's not guaranteed, though, as the XP upgrade disk I received years ago from Dell was a generic XP upgrade disk.
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February 7th 07, 09:28 PM
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Dell Vista Express Upgrade
On Feb 7, 12:43 pm, "Tom Scales" wrote:
wrote in message oups.com... What are the differences between Vista Express Upgrade and Vista Retail? Is the Express Upgrade a piggyback installation? Is the Express Upgrade generic to all manufacturers? Hmmm. Thanks in advance for your insight. Until I see one, I have no way of knowing and doubt anyone does. My guesses: Upgrade requires a previous installation of an OS, so the theory is that it has to be an XP upgrade. Feeding the XP disk isn't enough anymore. However, I recently read of a trick to do a clean install. If you install Vista and don't give it a product key, it installs in 'test mode'. You have to put your key in within 30 days. If you then immediately RE-install Vista on top of itself and give it your key, it will authorize as an upgrade, therefore giving you a clean install. Vista will evidently upgrade itself. I plan on trying it as soon as I get it. 2) I would expect that Dell's will be customized, if for no other reason to slipstream some drivers. That's not guaranteed, though, as the XP upgrade disk I received years ago from Dell was a generic XP upgrade disk. Thanks Tom.
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February 8th 07, 12:36 AM
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Dell Vista Express Upgrade
We don't know and won't know until we start receiving them.
wrote: What are the differences between Vista Express Upgrade and Vista Retail? Is the Express Upgrade a piggyback installation? Is the Express Upgrade generic to all manufacturers? Hmmm. Thanks in advance for your insight.
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February 8th 07, 02:31 AM
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Dell Vista Express Upgrade
On Feb 7, 7:36 pm, Barry Watzman wrote:
We don't know and won't know until we start receiving them. wrote: What are the differences between Vista Express Upgrade and Vista Retail? Is the Express Upgrade a piggyback installation? Is the Express Upgrade generic to all manufacturers? Hmmm. Thanks in advance for your insight. There was a post on dell forums alleging the delay was due to m$ not providing the upgrade dvd's.
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February 8th 07, 11:35 AM
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Dell Vista Express Upgrade
"hacker" wrote in message oups.com... On Feb 7, 7:36 pm, Barry Watzman wrote: We don't know and won't know until we start receiving them. wrote: What are the differences between Vista Express Upgrade and Vista Retail? Is the Express Upgrade a piggyback installation? Is the Express Upgrade generic to all manufacturers? Hmmm. Thanks in advance for your insight. There was a post on dell forums alleging the delay was due to m$ not providing the upgrade dvd's. Well, Vista did come about pretty fast. It's not like they had years to get the process ready.
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February 8th 07, 12:24 PM
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Dell Vista Express Upgrade
I beg to differ. Beta versions of Vista were, in fact, available more
than a year ago. Tom Scales wrote: Well, Vista did come about pretty fast. It's not like they had years to get the process ready.
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February 8th 07, 12:27 PM
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Dell Vista Express Upgrade
Wow, sarcasm goes WAY over your head, doesn't it.
They've had YEARS to prepare. The first beta of what would become Vista was available, what, in 2002? "Barry Watzman" wrote in message ... I beg to differ. Beta versions of Vista were, in fact, available more than a year ago. Tom Scales wrote: Well, Vista did come about pretty fast. It's not like they had years to get the process ready.
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