information about xp pro license

[Guest]

hi

im a winxp home owner.I wat take it with a laptop but now i need to upgrade
winxp to pro edition, is home edition possible to upgrade with license or ive
to buy a new xp professional?

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE]

hi

im a winxp home owner.I wat take it with a laptop but now i need to
upgrade winxp to pro edition, is home edition possible to upgrade
with license or ive to buy a new xp professional?

The WinXP Pro edition comes with a WinXP Pro license.
I think that answers your question but it's hard to tell.

I don't know what that laptop part is all about.

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[Yves Leclerc]

You can not just change the license of XP Home and get Pro. You need to get
the XP Pro upgrade kit and install it. However, please note that the "old"
XP Home license may still be needed as part of the upgrade.

 

[Ken Blake]

In

im a winxp home owner.I wat take it with a laptop but now i
need to
upgrade winxp to pro edition, is home edition possible to
upgrade
with license or ive to buy a new xp professional?

Yes, you can upgrade XP Home to Professional. There is no special
upgrade version just for this, but the regular XP Professional
Upgrade works fine (although it doesn't say so on the box).



But 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 that Professional allows ten concurrent network
connections, and Home only five.