Jamie said:
Can't upgrade from XP Home SP2 to XP Pro because my version is newer!
If you have SP2 installed, and your XP Professional Upgrade is without it,
it is an older version than what's installed.
You have two choices:
1. Uninstall SP2, do the upgrade, then reinstall SP2.
2. Create a slipstreamed version of XP Professional, including SP2, and use
it. See
http://forum.aumha.org/viewtopic.php?t=7262
Can't wipe machine and start again - it's working OK as it is, but I
thought the copy of Pro I bought a few years ago was going to waste
on the shelf.
As far as I'm concerned, that's not a very good reason for upgrading. XP
Professional and XP Home are exactly the same in all respects, except that
Professional has a few features (mostly related to networking and security)
missing from Home. For most (but not all) home users, even those with a home
network, these features aren't needed, would never be used, and upgrading to
Professional from Home is a waste of time and effort. You'll probably
neverknow there's any difference between the two.
So what can I do? just give it to a friend or something?
If it were me, unless I needed or wanted one or more of Professional's extra
features, yes, I'd give it (or sell it) to somebody who did.
I'm just wondering why home won't upgrade to pro....
Explained above.
