Re: Upgrade from XP Home to XP Professional

Oh shut up Andrew! Instead of spewing your nonsense why don't you provide concrete proof (in the form of links to Microsoft literature) that supports the upgrade notions in your confused mind. Once and for all if you cannot provide proof to your claims STFU!

The reason the OP can't upgrade is because he is using an OEM version, and, as explained by Nepatsfan, OEM versions cannot do upgrades.

John

Andrew E. wrote:

Microsoft says,the two OS are so similiar in some areas the two OS conflict
with one & the other during the pro install.Hence,microsoft only recommends
a clean pro install although pro has been installed on top of home w/o conflicts..

"meruv" wrote:


Hi, i own XP Home. I want to upgrade to XP Pro.
I have an Fullversion OEM of XP Pro.
The Updateoption is not pissobile, only NewInstall...
WHY???
.

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