upgrading from XP home to XP pro

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From: Brian Heard (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/18/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 19:56:09 -0800

I use Solidworks and they say thet XP home "is not supported" for Solidworks. I have XP home on my computer and would consider upgrading to XP pro if not too expensive. Reason I want to do this is so I don't have to wait for 10 minutes or so for a solid model to rebuild - with the processor (Pent 4, 3.2 gig) only 50% used, and 1 gig ram only half used. I am thinking that the operating system may be the problem.