I've got a Microsoft Action Pack Subscription version of Ultimate. I'd like
to upgrade it over an OEM version of Home, my laptop came with. However the
setup says it can't upgrade, only install.
Does anyone know of a way to trick the installer to do an upgrade, so I can

I upgraded from clean-installed vista Business to Ultimate using a full
version of Ultimate but had some problems e.g. some media progrmas can not
show video picture, MS Media palyer works fine though.  So I ran the Utlimate
progrm disk again but it still comes out as 'upgrade', ...

I bought a Vista upgrade pack and formatted the hard disk for a clean
install.  Then the Vista upgrade disk told me it couldn't install because XP
wasn't there.  So I got out my XP disk and tried to reinstall that, but it
won't install (apparently it's a bug that is known with ...

I was wondering if I can install Server 2003 or 2008 on a VM and use that
virtual machine to host a KMS server?
Karl

Today I downloaded SP1 for Vista and I tryied to install. After a few
minutes it seems it's installing fine, returns me an error. It gave me an
error code (0x800B0100) and a link
(http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=101139) that don't help me in any

I work as a vendor (v-) at Microsoft (Main campus, redmond).  My laptop has
the version of Vista (enterprise) and Office 2007 that are available on the
corporate network.
Now what I would like to do when I get off the project, is to instead of

I bought a PC 13 months ago with Vista Ultimate.  Motherboard died and I
decided to order a new PC to get back up and running while I try to fix the
old PC.  Anyway,the new PC has one of the more basic versions of Vista.  Is
it possible to use the OEM full version of Ultimate ...

when i try to unistall itunes get the error message itunes could not be
installed because visual basic script (vbscript) is not installed or has been
disabled. make sure vbscript is installed, turn off script blocking in
anti-virus and personal firewall software, re-register vb ...

Hi all, I have a brand new latest Intel chipped nVidia SLI PC with Vista Home
Premium 64 bit OS. I am trying to update DirectX to 9.0c and get an
installation failure which states "A cabinet file necessary for installation
cannot be trusted. Please verify the Cryptographic ...

We have a vista PC that is regestered in DNS as a KMS server (nslookup -q=SRV
_VLMCS._TCP shows this PC)
How can we have the person who is running this PC kill the KMS service so
we can create a valid KMS on a Server 2003 or 2008 box?

I have windows vista home premium 32 bit and when i start windows few
programs start sutomatically like magnifier, keyboard, narrator and pop ups
saying that there are programs with non compatibility. I have already tried
to stop through wndows defender but unsuccessful. Plz ...

I have a pc running win xp media centre
mp pc is dual core amd 64 bit 5200+ 2gb ram  nvidia pcie 256mb graphics
my hard disk is partitioned and xp is installed on the first partition
I am trying to install Vista ultimate 64 bit on the second partition

I am trying to startup a program i installed - Steam , but whenever i start
it, it pops up with an error message "Steam.exe (main exception): Unable to
write to the current Steam application folder. Please move Steam to a folder
where you have write privileges".

When I use Windows Easy Transfer am I removing the files from the old
computer and putting them on the new one?  Or am I just copying the files on
the old and putting new copies on the new computer?

Problem: Visual C++ Redistributable install on fresh install of Vista Utimate
OEM with SP1
Following a reformat and new install of Vista, the first non-microsoft
install I attempted to make was Nero v8.3.2.1, which failed to install