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gen3000

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got a laptop delivered from dell outlet the other day and just got it all working today, anyway its got vista home premium on it but I have an ultimate disc here at home and i was wondering if you guys thought its worth having that over home premium?
its got 4gig ram, 2.1ghz dual core and 2x160gb hdd

also, i was wondering if its worth changing the partitions?
I always see people talking about having different partitions but not really sure what to do them like... currently got 1 disk partitioned into 138gb (os is on here) and 10gb (got a recovery file in it) and the other at full 148gb
 
"Don't fix it if it ain't broken."

That's not really the [H] way, though. It's all up to you. Recovery partitions can be handy in some cases, personally I'd keep it. For Ultimate... You can install it, but it would seem like a waste of time to me, if you don't use any features of Ultimate compared to Home Premium.
 
ozo173 said:
"Don't fix it if it ain't broken."

That's not really the [H] way, though. It's all up to you. Recovery partitions can be handy in some cases, personally I'd keep it. For Ultimate... You can install it, but it would seem like a waste of time to me, if you don't use any features of Ultimate compared to Home Premium.
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QFT.

Don't mess with partitions, it will only end in tears. Installing Ultimate is a waste of a perfectly good license -- sell it if you aren't going to use it.

The only reason I'd bother with reinstalling Vista would be if it came with the 32bit version and you have 64bit media available (since you have 4GB of RAM and can't make use of it all with the 32bit version), and then I'd still save the Ultimate key for another machine and just reinstall Home Premium from your 64bit disc using the Dell supplied key.
 
You think its worth going up to the 64 bit version? I don't know too much about it but have heard there's a lot of compatibility issues etc...
 
gen3000 said:
You think its worth going up to the 64 bit version? I don't know too much about it but have heard there's a lot of compatibility issues etc...
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Not at all true. Unless you're using this in a corporate environment with ancient 16bit (windows 95 and earlier era) programs, you're not going to run in to compatibility issues with Vista 64bit. Yes, there were some bugs in earlier versions, but they've pretty much all been patched out and it is an arguably better OS than the 32bit version now.
 
Ok, ty. I gotta reformat anyway had some problems with some drivers - anyway, if I install ultimate will it mess up partitions that already made? like the dell recovery?
basically i gotta reformat what you guys think is best?
 
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