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Downgrading from pro to XP home

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Is there any way of downgrading from XP pro to XP Home without completly formatting my hard drive?

Name: Richard59
Date: October 28, 2005 at 15:06:48 Pacific

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no I used to have a signature but it disappeared and I just couldn't be bothered writing another so please feel free to ingore this.

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Name: Wombat
Date: October 28, 2005 at 15:41:30 Pacific

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Succinct and to the point, I like answers like this. Good one Richard...

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Name: Michael J (by mjdamato)
Date: October 28, 2005 at 16:05:43 Pacific

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I wonder why someone would want to do that . . . unless they wanted to move the Pro license to another machine. Michael J

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Name: simonscholey
Date: October 29, 2005 at 03:42:08 Pacific

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only if you've installed XP home first and then Pro and you want to install Pro but I think that would potentially get very messy anyway! MSI KT4AV-L AMD Athlon XP 2800 1Gb Crucial 3200 DDR 160Gb Seagate Barracuda ATI 256Mb 9600XT 16x DL DF DVD/RW 16x DVD ROM 9-in-1 Flash Media FDD

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strange file

Please help.....Annoying ...

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