I have a comp with windows Vista Home Basic 2007 Office. Can I upgrade to vista home premium? too many things are not compatible with windows 7.

This upgrade to vista family premium is still available? is this useful? How much would it cost?

where do I go to windows 7 and just deal with incompatible programs?

or just forget it and leave it as it is until I can afford a new?

* I just did a full factory restore, which helped.

but when I reinstalled the operating system, it wouldn't let me put in the same primary place on drive C?

I had to put it in a secondary partition and it saved a lot of old stuff and labeled "old windows"?

I do not understand why it does this. is there something in the old system files I need?

cause the entire purpose of the restoration was to get rid of all that. now, I have essentially 2 copies taking up room.

because he saved much of the old system files, there's no enough space in the main square.

Do you think I can manually remove the "old windows" copy C drive without doing any harm to the computer?

I did enter and delete all of the photos and docs & downloads which he recorded, that I didn't, with no negative consequences.

but it still has a lot of program/file system I fear not remove.i shouldn't need them... right?

everything I need should be there since the operating system reinstalled, I just did?

Help?

Marc Zanyk

By all means delete the windows.old folder.  Use disk cleanup.  You will find a box to check the detached, although it will not be called "windows.old" specifically.

It seems that your computer has a recovery partition.  You would not be able to install.

As for Home Premium, Yes, you can switch to HP.  If you can still find a copy.  Vista Express upgrade is no longer available since Vista is no longer available at a retailer.  However, you can find a copy on eBay.  Make sure you buy a retail copy and not an OEM copy.  You will not be able to update an OEM copy.  No matter if the copy of detail you find is a copy of full or upgrade license.  You'd still be able to do an upgrade in place with one or the other.

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