Re: XP Home to XP pro ?

Thanks Ken

....as mentioned earlier in this thread, I want to set up XPs' "Remote
Desktop," to help out a few people with basic tasks, I'm now coming to
realise that I will have to install afresh due to having bought OEM XP Pro
:-)
....this will take a weekend !!! all those myriad tiny little things like
dropping a new msvp hosts file into etc, hardening up for internet, tweaking
codecs, and reinstalling progs. and prog. updates at speed from 2nd hd,
where I keep everything, will take several hours !!! ...I may have to
treat myself to a bottle of wine to help the procedure along !

regards, Richard


"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:37:34 -0000, "RJK" <notatospam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Can I "upgrade," my XP Home installation to XP Pro 2002, (that I've just
bought),


Yes, if you bought a Full or Upgrade version. No, if you've bought an
OEM reason. OEM versions do not do upgrades of any kind.


with a "repair install,"


No, you don't do a repair installation. You do an upgrade
installation.

May I ask why you want to do this? Before you get concerned with the
details of how to do this, perhaps you should revisit the question of
*whether* to do it. Why do you want to? What do you hope to gain?

Are you aware that XP Professional and XP Home are exactly the same in
all respects, except that Professional has a few features (mostly
related to networking and security) missing from Home. For most (but
not all) home users, even those with a home network, these features
aren't needed, would never be used, and buying Professional instead of
Home is a waste of money.

For details go to
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp


http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/whichxp.asp


http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.asp


Also note one other point not mentioned on any of those sites:
Professional allows ten concurrent network connections, and Home only
five.



or have I got to start from scratch and
sit here for a week ! ?

regards, Richard


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