Pro to Home

[April]

Is it possible to down grade, if you will, from Microsoft
XP Pro to Microsoft XP Home Edition?

 

[Chris Lanier]

Greetings

The only supported way is to do a clean install of Windows XP Home, you will
lost all of your data.

 

[Ken Blake]

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Is it possible to down grade, if you will, from Microsoft
XP Pro to Microsoft XP Home Edition?

No. You can do so only by clean installing XP Home.

Why do you want to? Are you aware that there is nothing in Home
that is not also in Professional? Home is a subset of
Professional. The only possible good reason for wanting to do
this would be to free up the copy of XP Professional for use on
another machine.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

The only way to change from WinXP Pro to WinXP Home is to format
the drive and start over. There is no supported downgrade path or
technique.

Simply boot from the WinXP Home installation CD. You'll be
offered the opportunity to delete, create, and format partitions as
part of the installation process. (You may need to re-arrange the
order of boot devices in the PC's BIOS to boot from the CD.)

HOW TO Install Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;316941

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/clean_install.htm

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

Of course, you'll want to back up any important data before
starting.


Bruce Chambers

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[CS]

Is it possible to down grade, if you will, from Microsoft
XP Pro to Microsoft XP Home Edition?

Not without re-installing clean. That means you have to complete wipe
Home off the machine and install Pro. That said, why in the world
would you even want to?