Re: XP Home to XP pro ?
- From: "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:37:56 -0700
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:43:57 -0600, "Colin Barnhorst"
<c.barnhorst@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
I think that's a great suggestion for him, and should be a lot easier
than a clean reinstallation. The only problem is that I think Virtual
PC is not supported under XP Home, only Professional. I think it does
work under Home, though. I've never done it though, so if you don't
know for sure, perhaps someone else can chime in with a definitive
answer.
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
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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
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Have 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
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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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