Upgrade WinXP Home to XP Pro

[Guest ausglaze]

Having Win XP Home with SP2 and SP3, may I do an upgrade with Win XP Pro with

SP2 ?

[Guest Malke]

Re: Upgrade WinXP Home to XP Pro

 

ausglaze wrote:

> Having Win XP Home with SP2 and SP3, may I do an upgrade with Win XP Pro

> with SP2 ?

 

No. You will need to slipstream SP3 into your XP Pro and create a new

install disk. This is very easy to do. Of course you will be wise and back

up your data before upgrading.

 

How to slipstream SP2/SP3 into XP

http://www.nliteos.com/ - nLite

http://www.theeldergeek.com/slipstreamed_xpsp2_cd.htm

http://theeldergeek.com/slipstreamed_xpsp3_cd.htm

 

Malke

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[Guest Ken Blake, MVP]

Re: Upgrade WinXP Home to XP Pro

 

On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:54:16 -0700, ausglaze

<ausglaze@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Having Win XP Home with SP2 and SP3, may I do an upgrade with Win XP Pro with

> SP2 ?

 

 

In addition to Malke's good advice, let me add the following question:

 

Are you sure you want to do this? Are you aware that XP Home and

Professional are identical except that Professional includes a few

features (mostly related to security and networking) missing from

Home? Most home users don't need and would never use these extra

features and will see no benefits by upgrading.

 

For details go to

 

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp

 

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/whichxp.asp>

 

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.asp

 

Also note another point, not included in any of the above:

Professional allows ten concurrent network connections, and Home only

five.

 

 

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