Re: Installing XP Pro over home edition

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Anteaus wrote:

The upgrade is normally painless except for the additional cost/time per PC.

Don't try to tell that to Andrew E.! He's got it stuck in his head that "thier [sic] is no "upgrade" from home to pro..." No amount of reasoning or telling and showing him that he is wrong will persuade him otherwise! He has it in his thick skull that the only way to upgrade XP Home to XP Pro is to format the drive and do a clean install.

If you search the google archives on his trademark "thier" spelling error you will find that many have tried to explain the facts to him but he just doesn't get it.

Andrew E. sometimes tells us that:

"If you chk any microsoft division TechNet,MSDN,etc They specifically say thier is no upgrade from home to pro,the upgrade is for older windows OS..."

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=thier+is+no+upgrade+from+xp+home+to+xp+pro&num=100&scoring=r&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_ugroup=&as_usubject=&as_uauthors=&lr=&as_drrb=q&as_qdr=&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=9&as_maxm=11&as_maxy=2007&safe=off

But of course he has never, ever, been able to produce a link to such information on any Microsoft site.

John

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