How To Reinstall Windows Vista Home Premium

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Cdztattoo Barreto

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Jun 30, 2024, 4:40:16 AM6/30/24
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I am sharing my own personal experience and I know this works. I have had 2 vista machines one vista ultimate and one netbook - vista home basic. I have upgraded both to win 7. The desktop with vista ultimate was upgraded to win 7 using the full version. The netbook, which I just bought over the weekend, came with vista home basic. I purchased windows 7 professional upgrade online from microsoft and downloaded it to the netbook. When it came to the section asking me to upgrade or fresh install, I choose fresh install and it worked like a charm. I could have choose upgrade and it would have worked also. Both Vista and Win 7 have anytime upgrade making it possible to go from vista home basic to win 7 ultimate with no problems.

If you buy a retail version you can upgrade to Windows 7 home and then use you pro key to do an anytime upgrade to Windows 7 Pro. I would recommend a clean install in any case. The upgrade path is just an option. Either way you will need to by a Full version.

I want to install Bitdefender Total Security 2022 on windows Vista Home Premium service pack 2, using Firefox 52.9 browser going to Bitdefender Central website, login to my account and .... see white blank page. Attempt to do so from Bitdefender account using another computer result same. Looks like Bitdefender not supporting Windows Vista any more.

As technologies and threats evolve, Bitdefender continues to proactively develop and shape its solution set. The resulting new solutions and feature modifications often lead to a need to discontinue older software revisions and products.

But, one cannot be totally be dependent on anti malware solutions. You will have to move to a newer generation of windows someday or the other. While antimalware will protect you against the malware and online threats on old operating system, but they will not be effective against the vulnerability and bugs that are found in an operating system which are only patched by microsoft.

Since microsoft has already ended support for windows vista & windows 7, you will still be vulnerable even if you have an anti malware product installed. You may have to consider thinking of upgrading your operating system to windows 8.1, windows 10 or windows 11 which are currently supported and receive latest vulnerability and bugs fixes by microsoft. Also bitdefender will be completely compatible with these operating system.

I'm really sorry to hear that. You know we spoke in private as well on various matters and I understand it has been quite a rollercoaster experience for you and frustrating at the same time. I still think that we might find solutions, it is true that for Vista and Windows 7 there isn't really much we can do, but perhaps optimizations can be made and a more in-depth investigation by the engineers wouldn't hurt, should you reconsider your decision.

The reality is that new solutions and feature modifications required to keep up with the evolving threat landscape often lead to a need to discontinue older software revisions and products and this is the natural path of evolution.

And no matter what your final decision concerning Bitdefender is, I hope that you will find the most suitable protection for your needs. We are here for any questions you may have and will try to help you to the best of our knowledge, until the last day of your subscription.

I have the above machine with its recovery disks, I recently changed its hard disk because the original one that came from the factory shook them. I gave him a 500gb 7200 rpm. I would like to reinstall windows vista home premium from the recovery disks that I have, however, I get the following misleading message:

cannot use this recovery disc for the computer confirm the model type sony vaio
Do I have to do something with cmd to find the new hard drive I put in? From the bios you recognize normally, the factory reset of the computer simply does not proceed.

Have you tried pushing the enter key when it asks you to confirm? You could also try making a bootable Windows USB and try booting from that. (How to Create a USB boot drive for Windows 10). If your system was designed to run Vista, I'm not sure if you could install Windows 10 and have it work well though. Another thing you could try doing is buying Windows Vista installation disc on eBay or some similar platform. Good luck!

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