The upgrade of VISTA Home Premium Edition to VISTA Ultimate

I can go from home edition Premium, Ultimate, by changing just the product key (pass through the Control Panel, system, Windows, Activation) or should I completely re - install Vista again and enter the ultimate key when you are prompted for the product key during the installation process?

Background:

3 months ago I had to format my hard drive and reinstall all my software (system crash). At the time, I could not find my product key ultimate upgrade, that I bought, so I just re-installed VISTA Home premium edition which came with the original HP computer diskettes provided upon purchase. I found my ultimate product key since then and am interested in the upgrade of the software. The pain to do a re install again, I hope I can avoid.

Hello

None

You cannot change the versions by changing product keys

you run the upgrade from home premium to ultimate starting in a race home premium

just make sure that if the home premium SP1 and SP2 installed and the ultimate upgrade disk do not uninstall SP1 and SP2 do the upgrade, and then reinstall them using

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