Transfering programs from Vista Home Prem. to Vista Bus.

[Question]

Let me ask this question: When upgrading from Home Prem. to the Business
edition there is no option to upgrade. With that said the only option is to
do a clean install. Now before/after doing the instal is possible to
save/transfer your programs, files... using the Easy Transfer Companion to
the new os? The main concern would be preserving the existing programs and
transferring them to newly installed os.

 

[Robert Firth]

No, says here that the only computer MUST be XP and the new computer MUST be
Vista:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...eb-4e37-4be0-adfc-786786e73e50&displaylang=en

It might work though, but it isn't supported.

Robert Firth
http://www.winvistainfo.org

"Question" <Question@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:89C63B43-43AE-4DDF-A01C-60998F4B8926@microsoft.com...
> Let me ask this question: When upgrading from Home Prem. to the Business
> edition there is no option to upgrade. With that said the only option is
> to
> do a clean install. Now before/after doing the instal is possible to
> save/transfer your programs, files... using the Easy Transfer Companion to
> the new os? The main concern would be preserving the existing programs and
> transferring them to newly installed os.

 

[Mick Murphy]

You can not tranfer programs files YES, programs NO.
You will have to reinstall the programs from disc, or download.

Easier and better to transfer your files by CD/DVD.

"Question" wrote:

> Let me ask this question: When upgrading from Home Prem. to the Business
> edition there is no option to upgrade. With that said the only option is to
> do a clean install. Now before/after doing the instal is possible to
> save/transfer your programs, files... using the Easy Transfer Companion to
> the new os? The main concern would be preserving the existing programs and
> transferring them to newly installed os.

 

[Ken Blake]

Question wrote:

> Let me ask this question: When upgrading from Home Prem. to the
> Business edition there is no option to upgrade. With that said the
> only option is to do a clean install. Now before/after doing the
> instal is possible to save/transfer your programs, files... using the
> Easy Transfer Companion to the new os? The main concern would be
> preserving the existing programs and transferring them to newly
> installed os.


The general rule is that you can *not* transfer Windows programs (regardless
of what verions of Windows you are talking about) from one computer to
another. They have to be reinstalled from the original media.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup

 

[Tom Orle]

Question wrote:

> Now before/after doing the
> instal is possible to save/transfer your programs, files... using the
> Easy Transfer Companion to the new os? The main concern would be
> preserving the existing programs and transferring them to newly
> installed os.

I doubt that transferring would work. There may be other reasons, but
unless you re-install the programs how will the registry get updated
to recognize our transferred programs?

-=tom=-