Re: Upgrading Windows XP Home Edition

"tokolosh" <tokolosh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I have a 2001 edition of XP Home Edition and would like to upgrade this to XP
>2005 edition or XP Professional.
>Can this be done without reformatting the hard and losing all currently
>installed software applications.
>Any help would be appreciated

If you install Service Pack 2 for your existing XP Home then you have
the latest available version.

You can download Service Pack 2 from the Windows Update site, or you
can order a CD from Microsoft.

There is zero difference in performance or stability between Windows
XP Home and Windows XP Professional. The two versions are compiled
from the same source code base. The only differences are in certain
features and functions which are unique to XP Pro and are not included
with XP Home. Unless you have a known or anticipated requirement for
at least one of those features or functions that are found only in XP
Pro there is no benefit to be had by upgrading to XP Pro.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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