Install upgrade XP home to Professional

[Ali Ashkanani]

I have a pc that has Windows XP Home edition. I want to
change the operating system to Profissional.

I heard from some friends that some problems might
occurre during the installation of XP Pro. Is there any
approperiate way to perform this without problems?

Please help me.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I have a pc that has Windows XP Home edition. I want to
change the operating system to Profissional.

I heard from some friends that some problems might
occurre during the installation of XP Pro. Is there any
approperiate way to perform this without problems?

Backup your important data elsewhere.
Clean your machine of all Spyware/Adware/Malware.
Scan your computer for viruses.
Uninstall any software you never use anyway.

Defragment your hard drive.
Check your hard drive for errors.
Purchase Windows XP Professional Retail or Upgrade (Non-OEM).
Upgrade.

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

How are you going to install XP Pro - via the 'Upgrade' option? You shouldn't have any problems, but it might a good idea to backup your important data files before performing the upgrade. All your settings should remain intact.

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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


| I have a pc that has Windows XP Home edition. I want to
| change the operating system to Profissional.
|
| I heard from some friends that some problems might
| occurre during the installation of XP Pro. Is there any
| approperiate way to perform this without problems?
|
| Please help me.
|
|

 

[Ron Martell]

I have a pc that has Windows XP Home edition. I want to
change the operating system to Profissional.

I heard from some friends that some problems might
occurre during the installation of XP Pro. Is there any
approperiate way to perform this without problems?

Please help me.

Just a word of caution here. Are you certain that you actually need
at least some of the relatively few functions and features that are
found only in XP Pro and are not in XP Home?

The two versions are identical except for these items, and are
compiled from the same source code base. In particular there is zero
difference in performance or stability between the two versions.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the reply

Shenan
Is it necessary to uninstall software I'm not using currently? Shall I choose the upgrade option for installing XP Pro

Will
Thanks for the advie

Ron
I need to develope .net applications that requires IIS on my machine. XP Home edition appeared to not support the IIS. Do you if there is anyway to get IIS working on XP Home

Thank you

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Thanks for the reply,

Shenan,
Is it necessary to uninstall software I'm not using currently? Shall
I choose the upgrade option for installing XP Pro?

Will,
Thanks for the advie.

Ron,
I need to develope .net applications that requires IIS on my machine.
XP Home edition appeared to not support the IIS. Do you if there is
anyway to get IIS working on XP Home?

Thank you.

Necessary? No.
A good idea to have as little as possible to go wrong? Yes.

And if you never use it, why would it be a problem to uninstall it now
instead of leaving it there to take up space before/after the upgrade? (I
said "Uninstall any software you never use anyway", not that you aren't
using currently..)

 

[Ron Martell]

Thanks for the reply,

Shenan,
Is it necessary to uninstall software I'm not using currently? Shall I choose the upgrade option for installing XP Pro?

Will,
Thanks for the advie.

Ron,
I need to develope .net applications that requires IIS on my machine. XP Home edition appeared to not support the IIS. Do you if there is anyway to get IIS working on XP Home?

Thank you.

You are right. IIS is one of the components that is unique to XP Pro.
The reason for my comment is that I see a lot of posts in the
newsgroups where the user obviously believes that XP Pro has some
superior qualities in terms of performance and stability.

As for the upgrade, my personal opinion is that the upgrade from XP
Home to XP Pro is the simplest upgrade of any Microsoft operating
system yet. The core components are all the same, all of the device
drivers are the same, the only difference is in a few configuration
settings and the installation of additional components.

But you should be cautious and take reasonable safeguards. In
particular back up everything that is critical on your system and make
sure that you have the source disks to reinstall your major
applications in the unlikely event that things do go blooey. The
Files And Settings Transfer Wizard in XP is an excellent way of
backing up the important stuff prior to doing an upgrade. Just save
the data file it produces to another hard drive partition, a network
drive, or a removable backup device such as a CDRW drive.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."

 

[Guest]

Thank you for your answeres. I appreciate your help

Ali Ashkanani