upgrading to Vista

I bought an upgrade disc for Vista Home Premium, having satisfied
myself that this was a tablet-enabled version of Vista,

Then I set about upgrading my Toshiba M200, and what do I find? I get
a message saying this version of Vista cannot upgrade XP Tablet. If I
want to upgrade, I must have at least Vista Business. I feel mighty
cheesed off about this.

I can do a clean install, and generally I prefer to do a clean
install. But in this particular case I had reasons for wanting to do
an upgrade.

I knew it wouldn't be straightforward.

Allan

That would be correct, Allan. Home Premium is not an "upgrade" to the
Windows XP Professional (with the Tablet PC superset on top) version being
run on Tablet PCs. Only Vista Business or Vista Ultimate are "upgrades" for
it Check out:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...radepaths.mspx
A little research beforehand sometimes avoids issues. I would recommend
going with the Ultimate version. Here are the version comparison charts:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...ns/choose.mspx
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone


<> wrote in message
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>I bought an upgrade disc for Vista Home Premium, having satisfied
> myself that this was a tablet-enabled version of Vista,
>
> Then I set about upgrading my Toshiba M200, and what do I find? I get
> a message saying this version of Vista cannot upgrade XP Tablet. If I
> want to upgrade, I must have at least Vista Business. I feel mighty
> cheesed off about this.
>
> I can do a clean install, and generally I prefer to do a clean
> install. But in this particular case I had reasons for wanting to do
> an upgrade.
>
> I knew it wouldn't be straightforward.
>
> Allan
>

Chris H. wrote:
> That would be correct, Allan. Home Premium is not an "upgrade" to the
> Windows XP Professional (with the Tablet PC superset on top) version being
> run on Tablet PCs. Only Vista Business or Vista Ultimate are "upgrades" for
> it Check out:
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...radepaths.mspx
> A little research beforehand sometimes avoids issues. I would recommend
> going with the Ultimate version. Here are the version comparison charts:
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...ns/choose.mspx

When I first heard the names of the Vista products I thought that Home
"Premium" should not be labeled as such, since it would seem greater
than Vista regular "Business".

As an observation it sounds like this may have happened here...

On 12 Feb, 18:19, "Chris H." <winxpn...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> A little research beforehand sometimes avoids issues. I would recommend
> going with the Ultimate version. Here are the version comparison charts:http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...editions/choos...
> --
Well, that's evidently true.

But if I see that an upgrade disc is tablet enabled, why would I
suppose I couldn't upgrade a tablet with it? Without that reason to
doubt it could upgrade tablet, why would I bother to do further
research?

It seems to me that what you have to intuit is:

Vista Home Premium and Home Basic are sort of like XP Home

Vista everything else are sort of like XP Professional.

Allan

That chart shows Home Premium as having Tablet PC support. If that is not
accurate, someone should correct the information that Microsoft is giving
out.

"Chris H." <> wrote in message
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> Here are the version comparison charts:
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...ns/choose.mspx

Home Basic is minimal (see the charts I previously posted), and Home Premium
includes more than Basic. They are "upgrades" for Windows XP Home Edition,
not Pro, which is the top-of-the-line for XP. Only Business and Ultimate
versions are upgrades (as the charts indicate) for XP Pro.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone


<> wrote in message
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> On 12 Feb, 18:19, "Chris H." <winxpn...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> A little research beforehand sometimes avoids issues. I would recommend
>> going with the Ultimate version. Here are the version comparison
>> charts:http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...editions/choos...
>> --
> Well, that's evidently true.
>
> But if I see that an upgrade disc is tablet enabled, why would I
> suppose I couldn't upgrade a tablet with it? Without that reason to
> doubt it could upgrade tablet, why would I bother to do further
> research?
>
> It seems to me that what you have to intuit is:
>
> Vista Home Premium and Home Basic are sort of like XP Home
>
> Vista everything else are sort of like XP Professional.
>
> Allan
>
>

It's a matter of the upgrade path. Although I agree with you about the
notification, especially as Home Premium has the Tablet bits included,
Windows XP Tablet Edition SP2 (as well as earlier versions) is based on XP
Pro. Therefore, a change to Home Premium is actually more of a downgrade.
That's why Home Premium includes Tablet bits, but only as a clean install.

It would be the same if you tried to 'upgrade' to Windows XP Home from
Tablet PC Edition. You would need to do a clean install and not an upgrade.
--

Terri Stratton
Microsoft Featured Community
http://thetabletpc.net
Editor/Owner
http://writepc.net
Microsoft Windows MVP- Tablet PC


<> wrote in message
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> On 12 Feb, 18:19, "Chris H." <winxpn...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> A little research beforehand sometimes avoids issues. I would recommend
>> going with the Ultimate version. Here are the version comparison
>> charts:http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...editions/choos...
>> --
> Well, that's evidently true.
>
> But if I see that an upgrade disc is tablet enabled, why would I
> suppose I couldn't upgrade a tablet with it? Without that reason to
> doubt it could upgrade tablet, why would I bother to do further
> research?
>
> It seems to me that what you have to intuit is:
>
> Vista Home Premium and Home Basic are sort of like XP Home
>
> Vista everything else are sort of like XP Professional.
>
> Allan
>
>

It does. The point is that XP tablet is an XP Pro based system. You cannot
'upgrade' XP Pro to Vista Home...that's not "Up"-grading.

--
Sven
MVP - Mobile Devices
"Mickey Segal" <> wrote in message
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> That chart shows Home Premium as having Tablet PC support. If that is not
> accurate, someone should correct the information that Microsoft is giving
> out.
>
> "Chris H." <> wrote in message
> news:%...
>> Here are the version comparison charts:
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...ns/choose.mspx
>
>

On 12 Feb, 22:25, "Mickey Segal" <not_monito...@example.com> wrote:
> That chart shows Home Premium as having Tablet PC support. If that is not
> accurate, someone should correct the information that Microsoft is giving
> out.

It is accurate. Just don't try upgrading an existing tablet with it.
You can do a clean installation; but if you want to keep all your
installed programmes and all the rest, it won't work.

Allan

On 13 Feb, 09:25, a.jo...@open.ac.uk wrote:

By the time I'd calmed down after discovering that Vista Home Premium
couldn't upgrade my XP Tablet PC, I decided to go ahead and do a clean
installation. I had taken the precaution of cloning the hard drive
prior to the installation so that I could go back to the old XP
installation if I wanted to (which I have now done, pending the
arrival of Vista Business).

However, a couple of things struck me during my short foray into Vista
land. For the life of me I couldn't see where to set the screen
resolution. The familar Control Panel 'Display' icon wasn't there, and
none of the others seemed likely candidates. Also, I couldn't see
where to go to calibrate the pen-and-screen.

Could anyone point me to the right places for future reference?

Thanks

Allan