Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition [Upgrade] DVD.

Hello, everyone.

As most of you already may know, Microsoft Corporation has had some information leaked out again. This is not something I want to post on my site, so consider this a easter egg. You can go purchase Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium (not sure of others,) and get all the other versions right at your finger tips.

And as most of you already know, I use a HP Pavilion dv2000 (dv2037us) laptop, that came with Windows XP Home Edition SP2 pre-installed with a ****load of software that nobody will ever use, or most will never use, or hardly ever use. I have other computers too, and I must say, I love building my own systems but laptops are a pain in the *** to build when compared to desktops. But Windows XP Vista Home Premium has been great, except for the "Paltalk" problem, which I think this article will clear up some. (wasn't my fault, mostly, and was not the drivers either, it was "Paltalk").

However, there is a small drawback. The Product ID that you get, is only valid for the copy you purchase. So if you purchase, say what I did, Windows Vista Home Premium, it will not work for the other copies that are on the DVD. Additionally, if you purchase the UPGRADE, it cannot be used for the FULL install and vice-versa.

On my Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition DVD [UPGRADE], the following are already on it, including a couple others not mentioned; too lazy to type them:

1. Vista Business Edition
2. Vista Home Basic Edition
3. Vista Home Premium Edition
4. Vista Starter Edition
5. Vista Ultimate Edition

Now since I only have a valid license for #3 [upgrade], I cannot perform a full install -- but there is apparently a trick (I have yet to figure it out, to get a full install, only did it twice.) and I don't plan on trying it to figure it out.

I do not support software piracy, illegal and unlawful actions, these are (as far as I am aware of,) legal; as long as you have a valid license for such and do not abuse it. Follow these steps:

1. Insert your Windows Vista DVD.

When your system says, "Press any key to boot from CD-ROM/DVD-ROM...." or whatever it is that will be shown to boot from CD/DVD, press it.

2. Continue as you normally would, but when you're asked to enter your Product ID, do NOT enter your Product ID, click NEXT and follow the instructions. You can sample all the versions of Windows Vista and ones that are not mentioned for (30 days, usually, my copy you can.)

3. If you do have valid Product ID (valid as in, YOU OWN THAT PRODUCT LICENSE) you can run from there safely.

* When I say, if you have a VALID Product ID, if you purchased Ultimate and the DVD for the Ultimate became damaged, and a friend has Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade or FULL, a legal disc, you could install that on to your system using YOUR Product ID.


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I am assuming, which I hate to, go on a limb, but I read this from somewhere else, and earlier today I was screwing around with my system -- installed Windows XP Home Edition 3x, Windows Vista 3x, and other operating systems because I was bored - now I am back on Vista; because "Paltalk" was pissing me off, I couldn't talk to anyone on it, because it was Vista.

I will admit, I did forget myself for a while there, Windows Vista is fairly new to consumers, and that being said, a lot of companies and others are playing "catch up," so software and products are still not compatible. You'd think after all the years that Vista has been in development, the companies (hardware and software) would of already been ready. Yeah right!
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If you use Paltalk (http://www.paltalk.com/) I would suggest that you download, install and use the Paltalk 9.1 Beta software if you're using Microsoft Windows Vista, especially if you use the same laptop that I use. The reason why I am saying this is, because I have been at it for quite a long time, trying to get my microphone to work with Paltalk, only to find out it was not me, that it was Paltalk software itself; and after screwing around all day long hacking, messing with, and screwing with, as well as tweaking Windows Vista.

I know that as soon as Windows Vista has a service pack, I am going to slipstream my copy of Windows Vista Home Premium and putting the original away, because a lot is bound to change over time. Knowing my luck, Microsoft will change things around and prevent slipstreaming.

So, I will recommend to you, as Microsoft and others do, UPGRADE your drivers (audio, memory, sound, video, etc.) before you upgrade to Windows Vista; this includes patches, security updates, patches, fixes, and such. Then, if you feel safe and comfortable, install Vista. And from my experience, you cannot dual-boot Windows Vista UPGRADe with Windows XP. :(

Windows Vista Ultimate is NICE, although I believe and feel strong that the ENCRYPTION offered in Ultimate should be available in BUSINESS and HOME PREMIUM (They're talking about security on laptops, and Home Premium is a recomendtation to laptops,) you'd think that BitLocker would of been included. Can we say, "Nice move Microsoft".

Oh, one other thing -- Why the hell can you FTP to your own IIS7 server in Ultimate but not Home Premium, and yet, Visual Studio 200* can FTP *ASP*, of course, copy local drive, ugh, I am not going to gripe anymore. Microsoft did good with Vista, but screwed up again. Hell, Mac is good but they have quite a few bugs, OOOPS, "issues" or "problems".

Take a look at http://www.apple.com/ and you will never see (or almost never) see them call it a "bug", they call it a problem or a issue. (I forget where I seen that at, but I read it, and it does seem to be that way, and I own a Mac, so it makes me feel special -- NOT. LOL.