Contact HP and ask them if your product key will work, and if your recovery
disk contains the 32 bit version of Home Premium. you should not have to
downgrade to Basic. Home Premium 32 should work. That way you wouldn't
loose any functionality. You just need to find out if HP will help you do
that.
"Paul" <Paul@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:E3541017-6F63-4335-95BF-A4B6E79E7AA8@xxxxxx
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>I require Dragon NaturallySpeaking voice recognition software to be able to
> use my computer. I've just purchased an HP laptop preloaded with Vista
> Home
> Premium, and have discovered, to my horror, that the current version of
> DNS
> will not run on a 64-bit operating system. (The next version might, but
> there's no guarantee.)
>
> The Anytime Upgrade pack looks like an ideal stopgap measure, but will it
> allow me to downgrade from Premium to Basic? I'm sure that isn't what it's
> designed to do, but does anybody know (for sure) that it will or won't?
> Will
> it then, at some point in the future, upgrade me back to Premium?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>