Vista Home Premium to Ultimate Upgrade - NEW Dell Matt McLelland 6/20/2007 2:14:01 PM I've got a screaming new Dell XPS desktop with Vista Home Premium. Wish I had the forsight to have purchased this with Ultimate (I'm an "IT Guy" - and there are features in this that I need at home), but I didn't so I purchased the Windows Anytime Upgrade from Microsoft. Downloaded my install file, ran the install, popped in my AnytimeUpgrade Disk, and let 'er rip. About halfway throught the second step, I get the "Blue Screen of Death" - with some sort of cryptic IRQL error. Reboot brought me to a screen that offered 2 choices - continue Windows setup and boot Vista. First I choose to continue setup, but got the same Blue Screen. Next tried Vista, and after some lengthy auto-repairs, the old Vista Home Premium "rolled back" and I was able to recover from this failed upgrade. Question....this is a stock machine - no changes, clean OS from the Dell, no new hardware. Does this upgrade process work well? Is it buggy? Should I try this again or was this a fluke? I can't find many posts on problems with the Anytime Upgrades, so maybe "its just me". Thoughts / comments?

Re: Vista Home Premium to Ultimate Upgrade - NEW Dell "Mac" <mac[ at ]nospam.com> 6/20/2007 2:17:50 PM Might be related to the way Dell have setup Premium? I'd have a chat with them... "Matt McLelland" <MattMcLelland[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:D214C28B-F9FD-4753-8CB9-70DBC50F04F3[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > I've got a screaming new Dell XPS desktop with Vista Home Premium. Wish I > had the forsight to have purchased this with Ultimate (I'm an "IT Guy" - > and > there are features in this that I need at home), but I didn't so I > purchased > the Windows Anytime Upgrade from Microsoft. > > Downloaded my install file, ran the install, popped in my AnytimeUpgrade > Disk, and let 'er rip. About halfway throught the second step, I get the > "Blue Screen of Death" - with some sort of cryptic IRQL error. Reboot > brought me to a screen that offered 2 choices - continue Windows setup and > boot Vista. First I choose to continue setup, but got the same Blue > Screen. > Next tried Vista, and after some lengthy auto-repairs, the old Vista Home > Premium "rolled back" and I was able to recover from this failed upgrade. > > Question....this is a stock machine - no changes, clean OS from the Dell, > no > new hardware. Does this upgrade process work well? Is it buggy? Should > I > try this again or was this a fluke? I can't find many posts on problems > with > the Anytime Upgrades, so maybe "its just me". Thoughts / comments?