XP Home or Vista Ultimate

Just wondering, which one should I install onto BootCamp?

"Better" is a relative term.
It all depends on your use of Windows. If you need it to run a legacy Windows application and will not be surfing the web or downloading things from the web, I'd use the old copy of XP. If you think you'll be installing newer applications in the future or if you will be on the web, I'd break down and buy Windows 7.
EDIT: That knowledge base article posted before me might dictate the answer to your question.

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Hi Marius
On the Microsoft page you will find a difference between Vista Home, Business or Ultimate.
The ultimate is the highest version which includes all Vista applications. But this version cost about 550-600$
For me its a question of cost what version I will use

Satellite A200 - Vista Home Premium to Ultimate upgrading

Hi Guy's back again with a new query.
I'm looking to upgrade from Vista Home Premium to Ultimate...checked out all the so called requirements on the" Windows anytime upgrade" site and I can assure you there are plenty of conflicting ideas about how its all done right down to the fact that I would need an up-grade disk mailed out to me.
Having read a couple of other forums recently, the answer lies in what you guy's may or may not be able to advise me...and the question is:
Does the so called "rescue disk" supplied at purchase, ie the Windows operating system disk...CONTAIN ALL THE "VISTA "AVAILABLE SYSTEMS.....Basic, Home Premium, Business & Ultimate??? and highly unlikely but is it upgrade coded or whatever it is that its meant to be to perform system upgrades?
Many thanks again in anticipation of your kind comments
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Hi Jimi,
Thanks for your comments and yes I realise its a user to user forum but you just never know who's floating around.
And I certainly am not confusing the 2 disks Toshiba/MS hence my question in the first place, it only seemed logical to me that Toshiba may have all the OS for Vista on the one CD rather than preparing many different recovery disc's given the volume and variations of the systems they sell.
The serial and key required for updating can be installed onto your system separately after buying same from MS its just a matter then of whether the recovery disc itself has the operating system of the update you require......as for example does the disc an other manufacturer supply with their pre-installed software when you purchase one of their systems.
Thanks again for your kind thoughts and comments and I will investigate further.
Andrew.
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My pc windows vista home system and Windows Vista Ultimate both service pack 2 and itunes do not recognize the ipod touch 4g, ios 5

my pc windows vista home system and wndows vista ultimate boht service pack 2 and itunes do not recognize or do not see the ipod touch 4g ios 5. why'??'

Windows Firewall is on.
iTunes is NOT enabled in Windows Firewall.
We'd better check on that, kris. If you enable iTunes in your Windows firewall, does that help with your connection? See the following document for instructions:
How to enable iTunes in the Windows XP Firewall
EDIT: Drat ... gave you the link to the wrong document. Try this one instead for your Vista:
How to enable iTunes in the Windows Vista and Windows 7 Firewall
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Upgrading from Windows Vista Home Premium to Vista Ultimate

Hi all
I am trying to upgrade my windows Vista from home premium to ultimate and I have the original CD for the ultimate but when I put the CD and upgrade it wont upgrade and it gives me this message:
" - The upgrade cannot be started. To upgrade, cancel the installation and the choose to upgrade to a version of windows that is more recent than the version you are currently running."
And my computer is up to date so I dont understand is there something messing or I have to install a clean version of windows Vista?!
And if I have to install a clean version is the any way to install the windows without deleting my documents ?!
Hope someone will help me :D
Thx

To be honest I don't know how it works exactly and maybe you should ask this on some Microsoft forum or make call by Microsoft in your country. I think they are the right address for such issues.
Of course you can make clean Vista installation. All your data can be saved if you have two partitions and all important data will be saved on second partition. When Vista installation starts for Vista destination choose first partition. This partition will be deleted but all your data on second partition will be untasted.
If you have more questions let us know.

Upgrade Vista Home Premium to Ultimate

I have a Satellite L300 - 1FV laptop with Vista Home Premium.
Is it possible to upgrade to Vista Ultimate?
/Jonny

Of course. Start Control Panel > System and there you can see View basic information about your computer. There is also available option for Upgrade Windows Vista.
You can also install own Vista Ultimate using Microsoft installations DVD. All necessary drivers, tools and utilities you can find and download from Toshiba support page.
Before you do anything please create recovery DVDs using "Toshiba Recovery Disc Creator".
Bye

Re: Upgrading Vista Home Premium to Ultimate - Qosmio F50-114

I want to upgrade Vista home premium to Vista Ultimate on Toshiba Qosmio F50-114 could this affect on my hardware or my other software?
I'm using 32-bit system and 4GB RAM expansible to 8GB.

Hi
As far as I know this will not affect the hardware but I read in some threads that the Ultimate version is not fully compatible, or could be not fully compatible with some Toshiba Tools like Vista Added Package.
Im not quite sure if it could be a case on your Qosmio F50-114 but everything is possible.
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Upgrade from Vista Home Premium to Ultimate

I have a T61 with Home Premium that came OEM. I bought a Vista Ultimate with SP1 Upgrade online (download only). Later realized that I should have bought the "Anytime" upgrades that MS offers. Too late now though, no refunds on the download, so I am trying to figure out a way to make it work.
I have a few questions and your help is greatly appreciated:
1. Can I install from the downloaded file or do I need to burn a DVD with the files I downloaded and boot from DVD?
2. What is the best way to get the applications and drivers that came with the T61 for the Vista Ultimate version?
Any tips or suggestions are welcome. I am going to try this tomorrow so I am really hoping it works out.
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Any ideas anyone? I even called Thinkpad support but they refered me to the forums. Said they don't support non-OEM upgrades..
Also, I understand that I will lose the backup and recovery partition that comes with the OEM if I install Vista Ultimate fresh. Is that an issue? I've never really used that partition in the past. I am planning to use the Ultimate version's feature to image my PC after install so I can recover from that instead in case of a failure. Does that feature work well usually?
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Upgrading from Vista Home Premium to Vista Ultimate

This is a question for someone at Toshiba:
I have a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate DVD (given away a at conference I attended) and I'd like to use it to upgrade my Satellite laptop to Windows Vista Ultimate. This morning I did a clean install using this DVD but then when I installed the Toshiba drivers I found the HD-DVD player would not install.
I assume becuase it did not recognise the laptop as a Toshiba laptop, is this correct?
I hence used the Toshiba recovery CD to get back to a working laptop again (and spent all afternoon recovering all my files from backup) but I still want to upgrade to Vista Ultimate. I could just change my system's product key (from Control Panel -> System) to a Vista Ultimate key but I'm concerned the Toshiba Value Added software (HD-DVD player, etc) will stop working.
Alternatively I could do an upgrade install from the DVD though this will take ages and again I'm concerned the Toshiba Value Added software will stop working.
Can someone at Toshiba confirm the safe way of upgrading to Vista Ultimate.
Thanks,
Darren

Hi Darren
Just one thing at the beginning:
>This is a question for someone at Toshiba
Sorry but you have misunderstood something. This is user-to-user forum and you will not get answer from Toshiba directly.
Back to described issue:
I have very good experience with Vista upgrade. I have installed clean Vista Ultimate version on my Satellite A200 notebook. All necessary drivers, tools and utilities you can find on Toshiba support page.
About Toshiba DVD player I can not say anything at the moment but reading similar posts it must be just an update and because of that it can not be installed on your notebook.
For me the best solution for you is to change activation key and use Vista Ultimate. When activated you can update all Toshiba stuff including VAP. It has no influence on preinstalled OS version.

Windows XP Pro (32-bit) and Vista Ultimate (64-bit) on the same Mac Pro HD?

Has anyone been able to install both Windows XP Pro (32-bit) and Windows Vista Ultimate (64-bit) on the same dedicated Windows hard drive? I have four HD in my Mac Pro, and one of them is dedicated for Windows (and bootable via Boot Camp). I found the following technical articles about installing Windows XP & Vista on the same hard drive (using two separate partitions) using a VMWare machine as the test system:
http://apcmag.com/howto_dual_boot_vista_and_xp_with_vista_installed_first__the_stepbystepguide.htm
http://apcmag.com/howto_dualboot_vista_with_xp__stepbystep_guide_withscreenshots.htm
Has anyone successfully installed Windows XP (32-bit) and Vista 64-bit) on the same NTFS partition?
I already have Windows XP Pro (32-bit) SP3 installed on my single NTFS hard drive. I am looking for the best way to add the Vista 64-bit installation on the same hard drive.
Any thoughts and advise are appreciated.

Windows has its own list of boot OSs, and default, from msconfig. It will sit and wait for xx-seconds on startup in Windows if you want to boot from an alternate.
As to whether Apple's OS Switcher (aka startup disk bootcamp control panel or tray icon) sees both, I had Windows Home Premium and Ultimate 64, and pretty sure OS X saw both. That was pre-Leopard and before there were 64-bit Apple drivers.
I can't think of any scenerio of wanting to mix 32-bit and 64-bit on the same paritition, you realize you can't install the one over the other and must do a clean install.
When I added a partition out of main partition (I wanted to put search index and page file on their own partition) those partitions aren't seen - are hidden - to Leopard.

Brand new IMac can't connect to Internet while using Vista Ultimate

The subject is pretty much it, but basically. We just bought a brand new IMac and I happened to have an old copy of Windows Vista Ultimate lying around and wanted to partition some hard drive space for gaming. During the installation a message popped up that said Lion only supports Windows 7. I went through with the installation and after Windows started I loaded in my old Snow Leopard CD. I installed the drivers and went through the set up. Everything seemed fine, but I am unable to connect to the Internet. I plugged my desktop in via Ethernet to my router but still no Internet. In my device manager there are many devices, including network controller, that have yellow exclamations next to them but I don't know how to update them or where to get the drivers. Any help would be greatly appreciated, and I would be happy to take any steps to relay more information. Thank you!

New motherboard. So unless you can find, and want to mess around, which is why the pdf guide and all the faqs tell you what and how to install, and that only 7 is supported.
Vista SP1 is no longer supported even by MS.
You have Sandy Bridge based system with Thunderbolt, hence it needed new device drivers.
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Windows Vista Ultimate & iPhone

Yesterday I received an iPhone for my birthday and discovered it doesn't work with Vista Ultimate. When I called Apple care they told me that the box clearly states only "Vista" as compatible. I find this very odd since I don't know of a plain "Vista". There is Home,Home Premium, Business,Ultimate, etc..
After some discussion they finally agreed to take it back without the restocking fee but I am still depressed about it.
Has there been any news about support for ultimate? Why does my iPod and iTunes run perfectly but the phone won't?

It doesn't work with Windows Vista 64-bit (I've tried) but it does work with Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit. I'm using it now with no issues.

Windows Vista Ultimate Password

I have a HP Pavillion Vista Ultimate, Windows.
I finally got past the admistrative code,,....and now I am tring to sign in to Windows and the programs I have on my laptop,...unforunately I, apparently keep putting the wrong password in. Once I finally get in, I will either reset the passwords, or delete them all together, to not have future problems like this again. Of course I should have written them down, but didn't,...just trying to start again. Any and all help from one of you gurus/geniuses would be greatly appreciated,...and oh yeah, I 'will' be writing these down,..if I reset,....thanks so very much for sharing your knowledge.....Maxie.

Hi @Maxie512,
Thank you for your query.
I grasp that you have gotten past the administrative code but now have forgotten your Windows password..
Heres are some links I thing may help.
HP and Compaq Desktop PCs - Managing User Accounts and Logins (Windows Vista)
HP and Compaq Desktop PCs - What to Do When You Forget your Login Password (Windows Vista)
Here are a couple that may help.
How to Reset Windows Vista Home Premium Password - Forgot Administrator Password from YouTube
How to Reset a Windows XP or Vista Password from Wikihow.
Good Luck!
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IPod Touch and Vista Ultimate won't get along

I recently purchased an iPod Touch 16gb and have had some major issues ever since. THis is long winded but that's because without all details I think peopel will tell me to do what i've already tried.
When I first connected the device up I was prompted to update my iTunes and this completed successfully. Then when loading my music onto the device i got a few errors saying "The iPd cannot be synced. The disk could not be read from or written to." and then "Attempting to copy to disk 'xxx' failed. The disk could not be read from or written to. It sounded like a hard disk error but I persevered and managed to get my music loaded.
Then everything was going to fine for a while until one day I'd left my iPod attached to my PC (Vista Ultimate 32bit) overnight to charge and when I took it to work that day I found that all my music and videos had disapeared. I did some searching and this seemed to have happened to others.
When I got home and attached the iPod to my computer I was prompted to do a restore. So I kicked this off but part way through I received an error saying "The iPod could not be restored. An unknown error occured (9)." And that was it. Dead iPod. It wouldn't turn on and wasn't recognised anymore apart from windows saying "USB Device Not Recognised". Apple replaced this for me thinking it was a hardware problem.
Unfortunately I had the same problems with the next one. This time however I uninstalled and reinstalled all my apple applications (iTunes, Mobile Device, Quicktime etc.) as mentioned on the support pages. Unfortunately it didn't solve the problem. Once again I recieved the same errors and my music disapeared. This time I did a restore using the iPod menu and that was successful but then I kept getting the sync and write errors so once again I tried a iTunes restore and same again... dead iPod and back to Apple for my 3rd iPod.
I've now got my third one and am having the same issues. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the apple products many times, updated my USB drives and windows is completely to date. I've also created another user in Vista and get the same problem. I have a feeling this has something to do with the Apple Mobile Device Support but am not too sure as i've unistalled and reinstalled it a number of times.
Any advice or tips appreciated before I brick my 3rd touch and ask for a refund!

Se if thsis previous discussin helps
https://discussions.apple.com/message/23727903#23727903#23727903

Vista Ultimate: Local Network Access Only (Wired and Wireless)

Alright, I am not very experienced working with Windows Vista, and I'm having serious trouble solving this problem. I've been searching for solutions for two days and not found anything that works.
The computer is a Compaq Presario A900 running Windows Vista Ultimate (Service Pack 2). My brother used the computer's wireless internet connection for four years without problems, but lost all internet access when he returned home a couple months ago. The
computer will connect to any network, but has the message "Unidentified Network - Access: Local Only".
The computer first had the problem trying to connect to the Internet through an iPhone's Wifi connection. It happened again on the wireless network at my home. I took the computer to work to test it with a wired connection and had the same result.
I originally thought this was only a wireless problem and completely uninstalled and reinstalled the Atheros wireless card drivers.
I have completely disabled the Windows Firewall and removed all Anti-Virus (Avira free was installed - Norton is not on the computer). I have tried Safe Mode with Networking, and it does not fix the problem.
I ran a Fix-It yesterday that was supposed to fix specific registry errors, but that did not solve the problem either.
I also found a solution on this website that involved enabling sharing. One user said it fixed the problem, but it did not solve it for me.
The only thing I am certain of is that this cannot be a problem with the router. All three places I have connected have various other computers connected constantly: The iPhone regularly connects a different Windows Vista-powered laptop, Windows XP Desktop,
and Windows 7 netbook to the Internet. My wireless router successully connects a Windows XP Desktop, Windows 7 laptop, and Macbook. Obviously, the wired connection at work successfully connects over a dozen computers.
I'm out of ideas on this one...thanks.

Hi,
I've been having a similar problem; am not able to connect via wifi at our new home, but am able to connect easily at an internet cafe. Obviously, I'd like the convenience of getting connected at home! :) Getting "unidentified networK"
and local only access. Also had the same problem with the yellow ethernet cable & LAN, but finally found a partial fix online somehow so am at home using the internet now. But it is still a PITA, because every time I step away to take
a break from the computer, it goes to "sleep" and loses the connection, so I have to do a restart to get the internet connection back. And it would be much nicer to get the Wifi problem fixed, so I can move around the house to a more comfy spot rather
than being shackled in the corner by the yellow cable! :D
I will attach a screenshot of the ipconfig as suggested above, but am not all that savvy, so would appreciate step-by-step instruction how to solve this problem. I've tried a lot of suggestions, but nothing has worked yet... hoping someone here can help. Thanks
in advance! :)
oops! edit to add: grrrr, it wouldn't let me include the screenshot unless I verify my account, which I have not figured out how to do yet... another hurdle!

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