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Microsoft Windows 7 Anytime Upgrade [Home Premium to Professional]

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Microsoft Windows 7 Anytime Upgrade [Home Premium to Professional]

(185 customer reviews)

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Features

Move up to Windows 7 Professional from Windows 7 Home Premium with Windows Anytime Upgrade
Watch, pause, rewind, and record TV on your PC
Easily create a home network and connect your PCs to a printer with HomeGroup
Run many Windows XP productivity programs in Windows XP Mode
Connect to company networks easily and more securely with Domain Join

Description

Windows 7 Professional includes all the Home Premium features you love and the business features your work demands. Connect to company networks easily and more securely and share files across the various PCs in your home. In addition, you can run many Windows XP productivity programs in Windows XP Mode and recover your data easily with automatic back-ups to your home or business network.

Product Details

Product Length:	7.0 inches
Product Width:	4.3 inches
Product Height:	0.7 inches
Product Weight:	0.15 pounds
Package Length:	7.0 inches
Package Width:	4.3 inches
Package Height:	0.7 inches
Package Weight:	0.15 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 185 reviews

System Requirements

Platform:	Windows 7
Media:	Software
Item Quantity:	1

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review: 4.0

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254 of 272 found the following review helpful:

What this upgrade does Nov 13, 2009 By J. Jaeger
I don't see much commentary here about the actual product performance. There is a lot of confusion about this upgrade in the retail outlets, so I thought I'd explain to those with questions.

I researched Windows 7 before I bought my computer, and knew I wanted Win 7 Professional in case I wanted to run XP programs. Most retail outlets only had Win 7 Home Premium installed on their computers. The computer stores had the Win 7 Pro computers on backorder. Through some investigation at Microsoft, I found out that all versions of Win 7 are preinstalled, and you just need to get a key to "unlock" the higher versions. This is that key.

It took a total of 14 minutes to install this upgrade on my new computer. The hardest part was typing in the multi-digit key. (In other words, not hard!) It ran for 12 minutes, and then it was ready to go!

I haven't tried the features of Win 7 Pro to rate it, but this upgrade works as promised.

75 of 82 found the following review helpful:

This is how you upgrade from Win 7 Home Premium to Win 7 Professional Dec 28, 2009 By Roger J. Buffington
Most laptops/notebooks seem to ship with Windows 7 Home Premium rather than Windows 7 Professional. That is probably fine for most users. However, if you need your Windows 7 Notebook to be part of a business domain network, you need Windows 7 Professional. This upgrade is how you accomplish the change.

It turns out that Windows 7 Home Premium already contains Windows 7 Professional; it is simply not enabled. When you buy this upgrade you are getting an upgrade key. No disk, just a key sticker and very brief instructions. Key it in pursuant to the laughably simple instructions and within minutes you will be running Windows 7 Professional. One caveat: apparently you cannot upgrade from Windows 7 32 to Windows 7 64 bit. This will affect very few users as I do not believe that hardly any computers are shipping with 32 bit Windows 7. Nor should they. Windows 7 64 bit is very compatible with existing 32 bit software, and in the future we can expect lots of 64 bit software and we all want to be ready for it.

Some have criticized Microsoft for charging for the upgrade from Home Premium to Professional, but my opinion (which is only that) is that Microsoft makes its living by selling operating system software and this is one way for them to do it. At least the upgrade is easy, painless, and quick. RJB.

45 of 48 found the following review helpful:

Needed upgrade Mar 30, 2010 By Retiree "Retiree"
My laptop crashed and needed to be replaced. Old laptop was on XP Pro; new one on Win 7 Premium Home. One of my old software programs did not work on Win 7, and it is no longer supported, but I needed to use it. Research told me I could create a Virtual PC operating on XP but only from Win 7 Pro. So I bought the unlock code. It worked fine. I have now created Virtual PC and can access my needed old software program in that manner. Couple minor problems. First, a Virtual PC is truly a separate PC. It does not have access to the antivirus software installed on the Win 7 PC. Fortunately my ISP offers free downloads of Norton PC. Laptop came with McAfee (I did not want it because of my free access to antivirus from my ISP, but I had no choice). So I now have the main laptop protected by McAfee and the Virtual PC protected by Norton. Upgrade downloads occur separately and require separate reboots to take effect. There is no conflict because they are effectively two separate computers. Second, Win 7 has separated screen resolution from font size, two functions joined in XP. On XP I always selected a step down on resolution so I could read the fonts. In Win 7, I can now use max resolution and larger fonts. But when I go to Virtual PC, I cannot change resolution. So I either have to step down in resolution before invoking Virtual PC or I am stuck with microscopic fonts.

21 of 21 found the following review helpful:

MS Windows 7 Anytime Upgrade -- Easy to Use & Does the Job Sep 25, 2010 By D. Riel
The Windows 7 operating system is offered in several versions: Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate. It's important to understand what features are contained (and not included!) in each version so that you won't be disappointed with your machine.

If you are going to use your laptop, computer, or workstation for any business or other serious purpose, forget about the Starter, Home Basic and Home Premium versions. Unfortunately, one of these is usually what's installed if you buy the machine from online discounters or in large electronic stores

However, all is not lost. For the first time, the Windows 7 operating system comes with all the features for all the versions. All a user has to do is "unlock" those features. That's where the "Anytime Upgrade" comes in. Open this package and you will find a code. Type in "anytime upgrade" on your machine, and you will see a screen that asks for the code. Type it in and voila! You are upgraded to Windows 7 Professional. No disks. No sweat.

It's great that Amazon sells this product at a good price. Windows 7 Professional includes a license for Windows XP and can run your older software (and drivers for older hardware like printers) in XP Mode. So when I bought my first Windows 7 machine and knew it came with the Home Premium edition, I did not worry, knowing I could buy this upgrade from Amazon.

13 of 13 found the following review helpful:

A tip for all those confused XP users Mar 28, 2010 By Jeffrey P. Kesselman
This does what it says, which is not to magically make old XP programs run that wont run in Win7 home.

If you want to run Xp stuff that wont run in home's compatability modes, there is an easy soln.

Get VirtualBox (its free) and install your old XP as a virtual machine within Windows 7.
This is also a good solution if your running into 32bit/64bit issues.

You can get VirtualBox at [...]

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