Re: Trying to switch from Windows XP Home to Windows XP Profession
- From: Leonard Grey <Leonard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:37:06 -0400
As Gordon mentioned, Pro and Home are the identical operating system except that Pro has additional features useful in a networked environment. If you need these extra features, legally acquire a Pro CD and upgrade your copy of Home.
As with any OS upgrade, your existing copy of Windows needs to be problem free and you need to backup before starting.
To successfully upgrade, the Pro CD needs to have the same service pack as your installation of Home. For example, if Home is at SP 2, your Pro CD needs to have SP 2 (or be slipstreamed with SP 2.) Otherwise you'll have to do a clean install.
If IE 7 is installed on Home see this information:
"How to perform a repair installation of WinXP if IE7 is installed"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917964
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Leonard Grey
Since no one was buying 'Earl Grey'
Olympusman wrote:
I would like to take off home and go to professional. I am not having any problems with professional and i have the same software on my work computer as my home computer. I also have IE7 on my work computer..
"Leonard Grey" wrote:
What, exactly, do you wish to do?
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Leonard Grey
Since no one was buying 'Earl Grey'
Olympusman wrote:My computer keeps crashing as of late. Whenever I use the internet it doesnt fail. This started happening after I upgraded from IE6 to IE7. At this point I have tried everything from Norton, Symantec, Spybot and etc. I am not finding any viruses. I also cannot locate my Windows XP Home CD. But the system is slower and I was told that if I try to switch back to Windows ME which is the original system that I have to take off IE& first. Then from there I can upgrade to XP Professional and then upgrade to IE7 again. Does anyone know if this is correct? If it is not can someone give me the correct way to accomplish the task and get my computer back on the right track again? Thank you!!!
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