Using Windows 7 Ultimate N Edition

My friend had a tablet PC with Windows 7 Home Premiere edition installed, and found out that he couldn't use Traditional Chinese hand recognition as it required Ultimate edition.  Since I had an MSDN accout and there were a few Windows 7 Ultimate  N edition (create to fulfill a EU lawsuit vertdict, which requires taking out all the Windows Media Player feature from the OS) left, I planned on installing it on my friend's machine.

We found out that we could not use Anytime update to update the current Home Premiere edition, and we also couldn't upgrade it using the MSDN installation disc.  So I had no choice but to install the OS from scratch.  We also found that the installation did not provide the option wipe the C drive (the only drive on the machine) clean before installation, but that's properly because we loaded the installation disc WITHIN the Windows 7 Home Premiere OS.  Should we boot the system directly from the disc, I am pretty sure that we can have the disc tool editions.  It's not a huge problem since Windows installation will put all the old stuff in Windows.old folder, and all I need to do it delete that folder.

Installation went flawlessly, in fact all the necessary hardware buttons were properly setup, like mute and volume buttons.  The installation does a great job to set up all the hardware specific drivers,

I then use Windows Update to install all the necessary language options, and after then and installing Traditional Chinese language in language option, I was able to use Chinese handwriting recognition.

The final thing that we didn't finished was the Microsoft Windows 7 N Media setup package intended to "patch up" the system so that all the missing media player feature would be put back.  My friend said he used his own player package (CCCP) instead of the Windows media player, so we didn't complete that.  Other than that, my friendly is now fully equipped with Windows 7 ultimate edition.