Re: installing windows xp

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From: Cari \(MS-MVP\) (Newsgroups1_at_coribright.com)
Date: 09/28/04


Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:35:04 -0700

Do you mean you wish to revert to XP Home edition? The only way to install
XP Home instead of XP Pro is to do a clean installation... ie completely
format the hard drive and therefore lose all the data on the drive.

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Cari (MS-MVP Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
www.coribright.com
"jean blakeston" <jeanblakeston1@msn.com> wrote in message 
news:00e501c4a57d$d144ab50$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>i want to reinstall windows xp,i have at the moment got
> windows xp professional on my computer,can anyone help me
> put windows xp back on my computer.    thankyou
> 


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