Upgrade Win7 H.P. to Pro

[Dave]

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

 

[Ken Blake]

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.

 

[Roy Smith]

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

 

[Dave]

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

 

[Dave]

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

Roy,
Thanks for the tip.
Dave

 

[JKConey]

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?

 

[Dave]

What's in Pro that you need?

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

 

[Sunny]

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

 

[Ken Blake]

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.

 

[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

 

[Dave]

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

I think my terminology is lacking, sorry for that. What I have is a router
attached to my desktop and I wireless connect from my laptop and iPhone. The
router has a port I can plug a backup drive into, but I can't get it to
work. I admit I may not have spent as much time on debugging as I should,
and someone told me Professional would do this easily. Since I can get it
really reasonable, I thought I'd give it a shot.
Dave

 

[Seth]

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?

Maybe I missed it somewhere, but have you told anyone here what your router
is? Make and model? How else would we answer your question?

It seems unlikely that the move to "pro" would make a difference for an
appliance based backup device or host, but without knowing what the hardware
in question is I know I can't even begin to try and look it up.

 

[Ken Blake]

I think my terminology is lacking, sorry for that. What I have is a router
attached to my desktop and I wireless connect from my laptop and iPhone. The
router has a port I can plug a backup drive into, but I can't get it to
work. I admit I may not have spent as much time on debugging as I should,
and someone told me Professional would do this easily. Since I can get it
really reasonable, I thought I'd give it a shot.

What kind of port is this? Is this just a plain USB drive?

Two points:

1. You can't just plug a plain USB drive into a router. You can plug
in a drive with an ethernet connection that works as a network device.


2. Windows 7 Home Premium and Professional should work exactly the
same with this. I'm afraid that whoever told you differently is just
incorrect.

 

[Seth]

What kind of port is this? Is this just a plain USB drive?

Two points:

1. You can't just plug a plain USB drive into a router. You can plug
in a drive with an ethernet connection that works as a network device.

You can with certain routers that have provisions specifically for this
purpose. I've already responded to the OP asking for the make/model of said
device so we can check it's specs and manual.

2. Windows 7 Home Premium and Professional should work exactly the
same with this. I'm afraid that whoever told you differently is just
incorrect.

Yeah, I can't see why Pro would make a difference either, but maybe the
manual for the specific device could either shed some light or completely
dispel any thoughts to the contrary.

 

[Ken Blake]

You can with certain routers that have provisions specifically for this
purpose. I've already responded to the OP asking for the make/model of said
device so we can check it's specs and manual.

Thanks. I don't know of any like that, but if you do, I'd appreciate
your listing some of the make and model names.

 

[Carroll Robbins]

Thanks. I don't know of any like that, but if you do, I'd appreciate
your listing some of the make and model names.

The Linksys WRT160NL by Cisco allows you to attach a USB drive that can be
used for storage or a Media Server. You have to do more than just plug in
the drive. You have to use the router's web server to configure the storage
and Media Server.

 

[Sunny]

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

AFAIK the "backup program" in Win7 is the same for Home and Pro.
Why introduce a third bit of hardware into a backup regime?
Just plug the USB external drive into the PC you want to backup and let it
rip.
(Don't forget to Burn a recovery Disc while you are at it)

I Don't know how good the Microsoft Backup software is, because I use True
Image for my Desktops.
(I may even install True Image on the laptops as well

 

[Char Jackson]

Thanks. I don't know of any like that, but if you do, I'd appreciate
your listing some of the make and model names.

I recently took a look at the current crop of NAT routers and many of
them now have a USB port that they label as suitable for backups and
filesharing, basically a single drive NAS system, except that it
connects (directly to the router) via USB rather than Ethernet.

Here are a few examples off the top of my head:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124388
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833127215

 

[Ken Blake]

On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:39:47 -0700, Ken Blake


I recently took a look at the current crop of NAT routers and many of
them now have a USB port that they label as suitable for backups and
filesharing, basically a single drive NAS system, except that it
connects (directly to the router) via USB rather than Ethernet.

Here are a few examples off the top of my head:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124388

Thanks.


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833127215

LOL! That's the router I use. I don't have the time to look into this
now, but if it does this, I never realized it before (probably because
I had no interest in doing this).

Thanks again.

 

[Dave]

You can with certain routers that have provisions specifically for this
purpose. I've already responded to the OP asking for the make/model of
said device so we can check it's specs and manual.


Yeah, I can't see why Pro would make a difference either, but maybe the
manual for the specific device could either shed some light or completely
dispel any thoughts to the contrary.

The router is a Belkin F58235-4 V2 and the port is USB. It is dedicated to a
storage device like a backup drive. As I said before, I have not put a lot
of time into trying to sort it out, mostly due to the fact I thought it
would be plug-and-play if I installed Professional.
Dave