Re: Upgrading XP home edition to XP Pro

I have a customer that has 9 PCs in a workgroup / p2p network. One PC has
the primary database on it and all others access it and also access a
broadband connection via DSL router. All of this was working fine. Over the
past few months, they have had problems where one PC could not access the
database on the 'server'. By the way, the 'server' is just another peer
running XP Home. All PCs have XP Home as a matter of fact, except one that
has XP Pro. I am trying to determine if there is some type of connection
limit going on and if upgrading the XP Home pcs to Pro will make any
difference. Any ideas?

"Ron Martell" wrote:

> "Alvin" <Alvin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >Is there a way to upgrade from a current XP home edition to XP Pro?
>
>
> Yes. The Retail Upgrade version of XP Pro will do this with no
> problems, even though it is not one of the upgrade paths mentioned on
> the package.
>
> Before doing the upgrade review the information at
> http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpupgrad.htm to help ensure that the upgrade
> goes smoothly.
>
> And of course you should also make certain that you have an actual or
> anticipated need for one of the specific features or functions that
> are included in XP Pro but are not found in XP Home. Other than these
> items the two versions are identical and are produced from the same
> source code base. In particular there is zero difference in
> performance or stability between the two versions except on a system
> with dual CPUs installed on the motherboard as XP Pro will use both
> CPUs whereas XP Home will use only one.
>
> Good luck
>
> Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
> --
> Microsoft MVP
> On-Line Help Computer Service
> http://onlinehelp.bc.ca
>
> In memory of a dear friend Alex Nichol MVP
> http://aumha.org/alex.htm
>
.

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