Summary: My friend bought an H-P with xp-home and all the crap on it he doesnt need. The guy at the store told us that I can just install xp-Pro over the Home ...
Summary: candrade123, let me give you a little more info. this xp home system crased and had to replace motherboard and ram. error that showed right before cr...
Summary: Just a warning, some laptops like Compaq presarios do NOT take kindly to having Pro installed over Home, the dialup and the USB doesn't work. ...
Summary: Thanks for the prompt response. I did that and found now I have 2 OS - Pro and Home. Pro on d: (the NTFS) and Home on c: (the PRI Active DOS partiti...
Summary: Actually, I don't think that they both support NTFS--just Professional. For more details about what Pro provides over home, get it straight from the h...
Summary: Problem worked around - used pen drive as seperate drive to hold temp variable during installation. Worked fine but would still like to know from any...
Summary: I have to shift from SP1 pro to SP2 home...after i inserted the home SP2 cd, the installation guide pop up and did not alert me that i have a newer ve...
Summary: killer; I agree with you. i have 2-Pro and 1-Home they're all networking together throught wireless Modem/Router, have no problem to surfing on line...
Summary: I would like to change my OS from WinXP Pro to WinXP Home so that all computers in the house are running the same OS. I have a WinXP Home upgrade, bu...
Summary: I have recently bought a laptop (Advent, P4 1.7 Ghz, 512 Mb RAM) through Ebay. The guy who sold it to me must have installed a copy of Windows XP Pro ...
Summary: Can XP Pro be loaded over the top of XP Home? My daughter did this to her laptop because she needed to log onto file servers at her college's NT domai...
Summary: Is is possible to safely install XP Pro upgrade over XP Home and keep all my software without having to do any reinstalls? Or do I have to format and...
Summary: Hi Does anyone one now if you can put XP pro Over the top of Home, I have tried to clean install pro but Micosoft reject my key I have both Pro and h...
Summary: I'm doing this to a system right now! You HAVE to do a clean boot. You can't go from XP Pro to Home (or from 2000 Pro to XP Home, for that matter, eit...
Summary: Ewwww. I wouldn't recommend wiping the drive if the PC is one of those "oobe" machines (Out Of Box Experience -- Dell, Compaq, etc.). These machines o...
Summary: Not sure what's happening here... However an approach that may work for you (as you do not have the original recovery CD that came with the system?). ...
Summary: ok so i've got an older laptop that i use to play songs through my stereo. right now it has XP home on it and it's running fine a little slow (it's on...
Summary: A friend of mine was able to purchase an unlicened full version of xp pro from the university as part of being a student there. When he was attemptin...
Summary: Gentlemen, I have recently instaled XP Pro onto this pc. After the xp splash screen disappears, I have a 6 second black screen, then the "welcome" scr...
Summary: After my old HDD died on me I recently acquired a 40gb HDD which has a naughty copy of XP Pro on it. I am trying to reformat the HDD so that I can in...
Summary: hi i need to ask a question for sister that is running winxp home . she wants to know can she install winxp home edition over top of her hubbys xp pro...
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