Upgrading Windows Home Edition To Professional Edition
Oct 11, 2005How can I upgrade windows XP home edition to windows XP professional edition
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Install Home Edition On Professional Edition Of Operating System
Dec 7, 2004I currently have xp pro loaded on my computer but it was a bad install and i want to install xp home which i like a bit more. When i go to install xp home, it won't let me because it automatically assumes i want to upgrade and i can't choose a clean install. I can't boot from my cd rom so i can't go through bios.
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Mar 30, 2008I've been using Windows XP Professional for several years and am quite happy with it. My roommate has a desktop that she bought some years ago and it came with Windows XP Starter Edition installed. Lately I've been trying to help her upgrade from her XP SE to XP Pro but before doing this I have some questions.Is Windows XP SE at all upgradable to XP Pro? The reason I ask this is because:1.1 I accessed "How to install or upgrade to Windows XP" on http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316941, but it does not mention Windows XP Starter Edition as one of the options of OS to be upgraded (only mentions Win98, Windows ME and Windows 2000 Pro 1.2 I also accessed http://www.comztek.com/Admin/ProdMan...1.asp?name=228 and it says "You may not upgrade to Windows XP Professional from Windows XP Starter Edition,. as this goes against Microsoft's End User License Agreement (EULA) 2. In case Windows XP SE can in fact be upgraded to XP Pro, I have 2 questions:2.1 To start the installation should I simply boot the desktop normally and then insert the Win XP CD on the CD-ROM unit and choose the option "upgrade"?2.2 Will files in the desktop and installed programs be preserved? Or will my roommate need to install all the program she uses again? What about local files of Outlook Express and the MSN Messenger emoticons? Will these be lost?
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Jan 14, 2005Anyway, when upgrading from Windows XP Home Edition to Windows XP Pro earliler this week, everything seemed to work fine and all the program icons I had from Windows XP Home appeared on the XP Pro desktop. However, my Internet Broadband/Dial-Up connection dissapeared from 'Network Connections' and I therefore could not connect to the internet, even though the ISP ('BT Broadband' - I'm based in the UK in case you wonder who BT are) icon remained on my desktop and their software appeared in Programs.
When I contacted my ISP they claimed this is a problem with Windows XP upgrade to Pro and I should contact Microsoft Support. Is this true?
Anyway, I've had to resort to doing a clean install of Windows XP Home again now in order to get back on the internet with my Broadband internet and installing my ISP's USM Modem software all over again. It worked, but still want to upgrade to XP Pro.
Any ideas on how this 'problem' can be resovled. Don't want to have to do a clean install again and again. Also, is It this a common problem with upgrading to Windows XP Pro from Windows XP Home as my ISP claim ?
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Apr 18, 2007I want to upgrade my os .XP pro from XP home. I still want to use the programs and applications from XP home.Anybody know how?
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Jul 16, 2005I am using Windows XP Home edition. I want to use IIS and Windows XP Home edition does not include IIS. Therefore, I'm trying to upgrade from XP home edition to XP Professional. I have tried running the setup.exe from the Windows Professional CD but it gives an "error: 70077, paramater authorization failure".what should I do now to upgrade from XP home edition to XP professional?
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Removing Professional For Home Edition?
Dec 18, 2004I have an eMachines PC right now and am currently going to buy a new dell PC and give my eMachine to my brother. What i wish to do is remove Windows XP professional from my eMachines and replace it with the windows xp Home edition which will come with the new Dell, So that i can save money on buying a new Professional when my brother does not need the one on the eMachine.
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Oct 9, 2006I have upgraded my desktop computer from Millennium Edition to Windows XP Home Edition. I am now about to reinstall the XP OS again, to prepare for installation of DSL on my computer.My computer is a Compaq Presario (5000 series), 930 mhz processor, 128 mb ram, (soon to 500 mb), with previous Millennium Edition. I currently have a dial up connection and about to install DSL. The programs that I install on my computer are very minimal. Sometimes installing with or without McAfee, and, as alternative, installing AVG anti virus and the XP firewall. I don't install MS Works (the MS generic for WORD, the word processor), only using Word pad and Notepad. Adaware and sometimes Spybot. The third party programs are very few, like Roxio and the big programs are sometimes Nero and Photoshop. The immediate results from completing this installation this past summer, and on repeated re installations, were very much unsatisfactory.The main thing I remember, is that the computer's response was extremely slow in opening programs, slow response when clicking anything in an opened program, and very slow response in opening internet browsers and clicking links in browsers. My first actions to resolve the problems were to reinstall XP again and again by several ways: first installing my old ME CD (which was the Quickstore CD) and then XP over it then reinstalling XP in other ways, another time reinstalling by installing the XP CD of my laptop onto this desktop and my XP upgrade CD over it, and another time reinstalling it directly from an erased hard disk to the upgrade CD. I reinstalled the OS using combination of the above, to no avail.I had put aside figuring out the problem with this computer by using my computer's task manager to place high priority on the program I have open, and using only one program at a time. I am ugrading it to 512 mb soon. So, I hope that alleviates some of the problem of the slow response.Also, I have been using Drive Scrubber2 to erase the hard drive before reinstalling the operating system. I have scrubbed the HD at different levels, once absolutely thorough, requiring 24 hours. There shouldn't be any viruses on the computer. If Windows had required the presence of drivers on the HD that it writes over with re installation, then that could be the problem.
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