Reactiavtion of Windows XP Pro

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I installed Windows XP Pro over Windows XP Home on my
daughters computer. I have Windows XP Home on my computer.

We traded computers. I want to uninstall Windows XP Pro
on the one computer and install Windows XP Pro on the
other. How do I activate Windows XP Pro on the second
computer? I only want one computer using Windows XP Pro.

Thanks.
 
You cannot "uninstall" XP Pro if you have upgraded over XP Home. If you
have traded computers, and you have a sentimental reason for wanting to use
XP Pro, this will mean a clean install, with the attendant full backup, on
both computers.
However, why would you want, or need, to do this at all? Unless you are
connected to a large corporate network (which you are not), or you are a
high end web developer who needs to test ASP code in a local IIS environment
(and if this means nothing to you, you are not), then there is absolutely no
reason to change from Win XP Pro to XP Home, or vice versa.
Windows XP Home is the SAME code, byte for byte, as Windows XP Pro. There
is no qualitative difference or any advantage to be gained from this upgrade
unless you absolutely need one of the few features offered in XP Pro. Spend
the money on an upgrade to Office 2003 or something like that. Otherwise,
you are upgrading something you already have over itself. XP Pro is in no
way "better" than XP Home. They are the same product.
 
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