Vista - Sony VAIO Japanese Vista Home Premium Upgrade to English Vista Ult

Any problems with upgrading from Japan Vista Home Premium using a full
version of the US Vista Ultimate for a Japan Sony VAIO Type S laptop?
Meaning do all of the Sony applications and drivers work if I did an install
of the US Vista ultimate? the Upgrade feature on the Vista Ultimate was no
an option for me to use.

I wouldn't know much about Sony VAIOs but regarding Vista, as long as your VAIO was built for Vista, as far as I know (and I'm not saying that I'm an expert at this), your drivers would work as they are also built for Vista. It's much like HP laptops. In the HP support page, they first ask you if you're going to download drivers for a Vista laptop. There is another section dedicated for drivers for XP.

In article <A35C4AA7-D3BB-4A88-818F-A2990FD8B1DB@microsoft.com>, Woeng
wrote:

> Any problems with upgrading from Japan Vista Home Premium using a full*
> version of the US Vista Ultimate for a Japan Sony VAIO Type S laptop?

Since VISTA itself does not contain all the specialized files a laptop
needs you may find that the text relating to those files -- Help etc will
appear in Japanese; I think I've come across a reference to this in a
user message somewhere, not necessarily for a Sony.

You could either live with this, if you can use the Japanese language
where it appears, or you could check the US Sony support pages to see if
US files exist for your model.

You are likely to find that the exact model number does not appear on the
US website since manufacturers tend to localize models and in that case
all you could do is try to match the hardware specifications on a similar
US model and try the files for that US model.

The LAPTOP Computing Forum on Compuserve is a good place for support not
specific to VISTA but users there have plenty of experience of the
problems of upgrading with VISTA although not too many Sony users appear
there.

Do Sony supply recovery disks for your model, or a utility on board to
make them. Make sure you can reinstall the original version if you have
to and of course back up off the machine any personal files you may have
made.

Good luck!