Upgrade Win7 H.P. to Pro

I'm running Win7 Home Premium and want to switch to Professional. Can I do
this with an Win7 Pro Upgrade?
Thanks,
Dave

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On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:42:28 -0500, "Dave" <>
wrote:

> I'm running Win7 Home Premium and want to switch to Professional. Can I do
> this with an Win7 Pro Upgrade?


Yes, but you are considerably better off doing an Anytime Upgrade,
which costs much less.

On 8/12/2010 5:42 PM, Dave wrote:
> I'm running Win7 Home Premium and want to switch to Professional. Can I
> do this with an Win7 Pro Upgrade?

Yes, you can use the Windows Anytime Upgrade option in Control Panel to
change to another higher version of Windows 7.


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Roy Smith
Windows 7 Professional
Thunderbird 3.1.2
Thursday, August 12, 2010 6:11:03 PM

"Ken Blake" <> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:42:28 -0500, "Dave" <>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm running Win7 Home Premium and want to switch to Professional. Can I
>> do
>> this with an Win7 Pro Upgrade?
>
>
> Yes, but you are considerably better off doing an Anytime Upgrade,
> which costs much less.
>

Actually I can buy the Academic license for less than half of the Anytime
Upgrade. You have to have an email address for a school and are limited to
one purchase of each title. It's the full-blown edition, not the student
edition, but it is not retail or wholesale packaged, it's a unique folder of
heavy paper.
Thanks for the tip.
Dave

"Roy Smith" <> wrote in message
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> On 8/12/2010 5:42 PM, Dave wrote:
>> I'm running Win7 Home Premium and want to switch to Professional. Can I
>> do this with an Win7 Pro Upgrade?
>
> Yes, you can use the Windows Anytime Upgrade option in Control Panel to
> change to another higher version of Windows 7.
>
>
> --
>
> Roy Smith
> Windows 7 Professional
> Thunderbird 3.1.2
> Thursday, August 12, 2010 6:11:03 PM

Roy,
Thanks for the tip.
Dave

"Dave" <> wrote in message
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> I'm running Win7 Home Premium and want to switch to Professional. Can I do
> this with an Win7 Pro Upgrade?
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
> --


What's in Pro that you need?


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"JKConey" <> wrote in message
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> "Dave" <> wrote in message
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>> I'm running Win7 Home Premium and want to switch to Professional. Can I
>> do this with an Win7 Pro Upgrade?
>> Thanks,
>> Dave
>>
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>
> What's in Pro that you need?
>
>
> --
> JK Sinrod
> www.myconeyislandmemories.com

From what I understand it will network better than Home. My printer works ok
now, but I'm having trouble setting up a backup drive on my router so I can
backup both desktop and laptop to it.
Dave

"Dave" <> wrote in message
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> "JKConey" <> wrote in message
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>> "Dave" <> wrote in message
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>>> I'm running Win7 Home Premium and want to switch to Professional. Can
>>> I do this with an Win7 Pro Upgrade?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Dave
>>>
>>> --
>>
>>
>> What's in Pro that you need?
>>
>>
>> --
>> JK Sinrod
>> www.myconeyislandmemories.com
>
> From what I understand it will network better than Home. My printer
> works ok now, but I'm having trouble setting up a backup drive on my
> router so I can backup both desktop and laptop to it.
> Dave

All you get "extra" in pro is ;
1. Run WinXP applications in "WinXP Mode",
2. Connect to *Company* networks more securely, and
3. Auto backup to Home or Business Network.

One thing I don't understand is your "backup desktop and Laptop to a
"Router" ?

FWIW I have backed up two laptops (Win7 Home) and three Desktops (WinXP
and Win98SE) to a western digital external hard drive (And scheduled
monthly "update backups")
a. Used the Win7 "backup application" and burned a recovery disc, and
b. Used Acronis True image for the Desktop PCs

The only lack of control was that the Win7 application did not give me the
option to backup to a "folder" of my choice, however, it does create an
image in the external hard drive, with the "Laptop Name" as the
identifying title.

NB My "Workgroup" LAN (Ethernet for Desk tops and WiFi for the Win7
Laptops) through my DLink DIR-615, router works fine :-)

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> "JKConey" <> wrote in message
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> > "Dave" <> wrote in message
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> >> I'm running Win7 Home Premium and want to switch to Professional. Can I
> >> do this with an Win7 Pro Upgrade?


>
> From what I understand it will network better than Home.



No, not true. If you want to join a domain, yes, you need
Professional. But for peer-to-peer networking, they are the same.

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> "Dave" <> wrote in message
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>> "JKConey" <> wrote in message
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>>> "Dave" <> wrote in message
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>>>> I'm running Win7 Home Premium and want to switch to Professional. Can I
>>>> do this with an Win7 Pro Upgrade?
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Dave
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>> What's in Pro that you need?
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> JK Sinrod
>>> www.myconeyislandmemories.com
>>
>> From what I understand it will network better than Home. My printer works
>> ok now, but I'm having trouble setting up a backup drive on my router so
>> I can backup both desktop and laptop to it.
>> Dave
>
> All you get "extra" in pro is ;
> 1. Run WinXP applications in "WinXP Mode",
> 2. Connect to *Company* networks more securely, and
> 3. Auto backup to Home or Business Network.
>
> One thing I don't understand is your "backup desktop and Laptop to a
> "Router" ?
>
> FWIW I have backed up two laptops (Win7 Home) and three Desktops (WinXP
> and Win98SE) to a western digital external hard drive (And scheduled
> monthly "update backups")
> a. Used the Win7 "backup application" and burned a recovery disc, and
> b. Used Acronis True image for the Desktop PCs
>
> The only lack of control was that the Win7 application did not give me the
> option to backup to a "folder" of my choice, however, it does create an
> image in the external hard drive, with the "Laptop Name" as the
> identifying title.
>
> NB My "Workgroup" LAN (Ethernet for Desk tops and WiFi for the Win7
> Laptops) through my DLink DIR-615, router works fine :-)
>

I can backup fine from a USB port to a backup drive. My router has a port
that I can plug a backup drive into and do incremental, full or selective
backups. I can't seem to get it enabled to work right. Someone told me
Professional would do this without any problems.
Do you know if this is true?
Dave