Have to upgrade Windows Vista Home Premium to Windows 8

[Sushubh]

BC. The torrent is so freaking slow. Dumping the idea again.as for the machine. it is fantastic. the only thing uncle uses is internet explorer and google chrome i am thinking using my 64bit copy and install it from scratch.

 

[mhsabir]

If it does support 64-bit and no data to worry about. Then I dont see why you need to worry at all. You can probably just format and use the 64-bit disk.

 

[Sushubh]

it is a Sony vaio laptop. two problems... it has just 2GB RAM. also... from what i have heard, upgrade edition iso tends to give issues if the OS is not installed already.also, it would be impossible to find out where uncle has stored the few files he stores on the laptop. i mean he has had this laptop for a couple of years now. but he still does not understand the concept of folders and files. so he basically follow steps written on paper based on what i show him and follow those steps to access files. :\he likes the sony vaio website as his homepage because it looks pretty. likes to use IE even though i tell him to stick with chrome because it exists on the machine and why waste it? i think i made a mistake telling him about windows 8. :\

 

[kumararvind]

ok. someone posted the torrent file for the retail iso of windows 8 32bit. downloading it now.

any idea how i can use it to upgrade an existing windows vista installation?

You will have to run the setup from within vista, but before that you will have to buy the key for which windows makes you to run an upgrade check anyways. So after the purchase goes the ugh just cancel the installer and run the setup from your iso. That should work fine. Your files from vista will be tossed, so backup everything beforehand., but i don't need to tell u that.

 

[Sushubh]

Ended up downloading here itself! Hoping it installs fine!

 

[Sushubh]

Managed to get it done finally. Airtel took around 3 hours to download the file on this machine. Install was fast. I guess because it removed all the third party apps. Thankfully data was not removed. I had taken a backup just in case. In the end… Uncle was terribly confused with the metro UI. But he was not annoyed. But more like excited considering he loves to learn new things. It was hard explaining to him what apps means. He still does not understand the concept of files and folders and web sites and hard disks. He download photos on his computer and then copy them to pen drives for example. Gave him some basic instructions. And told him to use it for a few days and note down all doubts and confusions. Would visit him during the weekend and try to clear all those doubts. I still cannot believe how hard Microsoft has made it to shut down the computer. They could have added options on the metro UI itself. The gesture to bring the right column is pretty annoying on a desktop without a touch display. Anyways. I am just pleased that it worked out all well.

 

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[IndianMascot]

Good that your uncle liked it. Shut down option is very tired one. I hope to get some shortcut to it.

 

[Sushubh]

one of the many things i can never understand is that he has two gmail accounts. and he logs out every time from it. even though he is the only person using that laptop. and sometimes he opens it in IE. other times in Chrome. windows 8 apps of course keep him logged in. i am sure this is not going to amuse him. i would have to explain to him the whole concept of one password (windows 8 login) which saves him the headache of logging in manually just to check his mail and so on. i basically want him to start using the metro UI for everything. and stay on it. it is better for him as the text is big and it is very hard to get malware on the machine through windows 8 apps. :\

 

[IndianMascot]

Still your uncle understand quite few things. My dad one day told me to scan a document on computer ( I do not have a scanner). And he wasn't ready to understand this

 

[Sushubh]

yeah he is pretty impressive considering he is around 75 years old!