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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> 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.

On Feb 7, 12:43 pm, "Tom Scales" <tjsca...@gmail.com> wrote:
> <genk...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news: 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.

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.
>

On Feb 7, 7:36 pm, Barry Watzman <WatzmanNOS...@neo.rr.com> wrote:
> We don't know and won't know until we start receiving them.
>
> genk...@gmail.com 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.

"hacker" <> wrote in message
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> On Feb 7, 7:36 pm, Barry Watzman <WatzmanNOS...@neo.rr.com> wrote:
>> We don't know and won't know until we start receiving them.
>>
>> genk...@gmail.com 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.

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.
>
>

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
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>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.