Re: Home from Pro

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From: JAX (slipslide_at_pop.not)
Date: 11/08/04 

Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 18:32:42 -0700

Going from Pro to Home is a downgrade, you can't do it without formatting
the drive and starting over. The question that comes to mind is, why would
you want to go back to Home? Everything that is in Home is in Pro, plus a
few other security and networking features.

LOL, JAX

"Marc McMaster" <Marc McMaster@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:05A98F39-B13F-468E-ADDC-0346DC38540B@microsoft.com...
>I currently have XP Pro installed on my desktop and I want to go back to XP
> Home. However when I use the upgrade disk from Home it says that it can't
> upgrade my current version. How do I either remove Pro to go to Home or
> circumvent the problem altogether.

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