Re: Upgrade XP Home to Pro without a product disk

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On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 08:59:28 -0800, Michael Douglas wrote:

Hi,

I've got Philips Freeline MT1100 running XP Home edition, and I wish to
design websites. However, as I'm sure you're aware, Home doesn't have either
PWS or IIS. Thus, I wish to upgrade to Pro, but my computer came with Home
pre loaded and the recovery disk does not respond to 'D:\setup.exe' as is
suggested at
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/getstarted/installquick.mspx ,
simply because the disk is a system restore disk that has the Home info on it
amongst other things.

So...how can someone who has Home preloaded on their computer and no Home
product disk upgrade to Pro?

Any help would be much appreciated

Easy - buy an UPGRADE version of Pro and, do an upgrade! (AFAIK........)

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Gordon Burgess-Parker
Interim Systems and Management Accounting
www.gbpcomputing.co.uk

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