Re: XP Home to XP pro ?
- From: "Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnhorst@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:43:57 -0600
But did you understand my question? Maybe Ken can shed some advice on this point too. I think you can do what you want to do without disturbing your XP Home installation if you have enough memory on the box. You can install the copy of XP Pro you just got into a virtual machine under Virtual PC 2007 (free). Then you would have a computer within a computer effect. You could run XP Pro in a window on your XP Home desktop. You could do the things you need XP Pro for and then just close the XP Pro virtual machine when you don't need it.
A lot depends on your hardware but in theory at least it should work. That would mean a hour or so to set up XP Pro and no changes at all to what you are running now. You don't have to partition like you would dual booting and you can work in both XP Home and XP Pro at the same time whenever you need to.
"RJK" <notatospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uuLIl5vgIHA.1164@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks Colin,
To be more specific, (I do love moaning, ever such a lot, when faced with a fresh XP install, as you may have gathered!).
Even though I can work at a terrific rate of knots knocking things into the shape I want them, it's simply the very large number of small tweaks, adjustments, driver installs, etc, i.e. ...personalising / making settings, the offline and online defrags, temporarily fixing the paging file min. and max. size to 1.5 time amount of ram to stop Windows altering it for a while, Doug Knox's vbs script to kill messenger, printer drivers, ....all these little things ...okay an hour, or two, or three ...prolly more like 4 or 5 !!!
THEN, despite having done all that, and across the next few weeks, almost EVERY time one goes to the PC to perform a task something is not quite right, or is not "in there," and one spends time further adjusting or tweaking, or installing and further tweaking, and the task is abandoned ! i.e. even after attempting the most thorough "re-install" from scratch, ...one rarely covers all the bases !
...re: setting up a virtual machine, I only have 1gb of RAM, ...not really necessary, my hd's are quite fast and motherboard is in dual channel memory mode, i.e "old" D935 cpu is quite swift i.e. the machine is pretty responsive ,.....it's just the "dread" of reinstalling from scratch !
regards, Richard
"Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnhorst@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:50717881-C314-46ED-B44D-E2D49180F6CF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxHave you thought about doing this in a virtual machine on your XP Home desktop? Of course it depends on how much ram you presently have now.
"RJK" <notatospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eOPpJGvgIHA.5164@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxThanks 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 news:k27bt39t7s8k2o3fl55vdfrnh9r0lmp9ks@xxxxxxxxxxOn 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
--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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