Vista Home Premium to Ultimate Upgrade - NEW Dell

I've got a screaming new Dell XPS desktop with Vista Home Premium. Wish I
had the forsight to have purchased this with Ultimate (I'm an "IT Guy" - and
there are features in this that I need at home), but I didn't so I purchased
the Windows Anytime Upgrade from Microsoft.

Downloaded my install file, ran the install, popped in my AnytimeUpgrade
Disk, and let 'er rip. About halfway throught the second step, I get the
"Blue Screen of Death" - with some sort of cryptic IRQL error. Reboot
brought me to a screen that offered 2 choices - continue Windows setup and
boot Vista. First I choose to continue setup, but got the same Blue Screen.
Next tried Vista, and after some lengthy auto-repairs, the old Vista Home
Premium "rolled back" and I was able to recover from this failed upgrade.

Question....this is a stock machine - no changes, clean OS from the Dell, no
new hardware. Does this upgrade process work well? Is it buggy? Should I
try this again or was this a fluke? I can't find many posts on problems with
the Anytime Upgrades, so maybe "its just me". Thoughts / comments?

Might be related to the way Dell have setup Premium? I'd have a chat with
them...

"Matt McLelland" <MattMcLelland@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news214C28B-F9FD-4753-8CB9-70DBC50F04F3@microsoft.com...
> I've got a screaming new Dell XPS desktop with Vista Home Premium. Wish I
> had the forsight to have purchased this with Ultimate (I'm an "IT Guy" -
> and
> there are features in this that I need at home), but I didn't so I
> purchased
> the Windows Anytime Upgrade from Microsoft.
>
> Downloaded my install file, ran the install, popped in my AnytimeUpgrade
> Disk, and let 'er rip. About halfway throught the second step, I get the
> "Blue Screen of Death" - with some sort of cryptic IRQL error. Reboot
> brought me to a screen that offered 2 choices - continue Windows setup and
> boot Vista. First I choose to continue setup, but got the same Blue
> Screen.
> Next tried Vista, and after some lengthy auto-repairs, the old Vista Home
> Premium "rolled back" and I was able to recover from this failed upgrade.
>
> Question....this is a stock machine - no changes, clean OS from the Dell,
> no
> new hardware. Does this upgrade process work well? Is it buggy? Should
> I
> try this again or was this a fluke? I can't find many posts on problems
> with
> the Anytime Upgrades, so maybe "its just me". Thoughts / comments?