Uninstall xp pro/Install xp home

[shadow42]

I have windows xp pro on my pc. I want to uninstall it and install xp
home edition. Will I lose all my other programs if I do that? What
programs must I save to disc.

 

[Malke]

I have windows xp pro on my pc. I want to uninstall it and install xp
home edition. Will I lose all my other programs if I do that? What
programs must I save to disc.

Yes, you will lose everything because you must do a clean install since you
want to do a downgrade. Back up your data. Programs must be installed from
whatever installation media you have - cd or the installer executable if
you downloaded from the web.

http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html - Clean Install How-To
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Reinstalling_Windows - What
you will need on-hand

Malke

 

[shadow42]

shadow42 wrote:
-

I have windows xp pro on my pc. I want to uninstall it and install xp
home edition. Will I lose all my other programs if I do that? What
programs must I save to disc.-

Yes, you will lose everything because you must do a clean install since
you
want to do a downgrade. Back up your data. Programs must be installed
from
whatever installation media you have - cd or the installer executable
if
you downloaded from the web.

http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html - Clean Install
How-To
http://tinyurl.com/b9v2h - What
you will need on-hand

Malke
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www.elephantboycomputers.com
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Thank you all who answered, you are very helpful.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I have windows xp pro on my pc. I want to uninstall it and install xp
home edition. Will I lose all my other programs if I do that?

Going from XP Professional to XP Home is a downgrade, and downgrades aren't
supported. The only way to do what you want is by doing a clean
installation, and that means that you will lose *everything* on the
drive--programs, data, etc.

What
programs must I save to disc.

Saving programs is useless. When you install Windows cleanly, you then need
to reinstall all the programs from scratch.

Why do you want to do this? Are you aware that XP Professional is a superset
of Home? Professional has features not in Home, but there's nothing in Home
that's not also in Professional, and therefore no possible advantage to
doing this.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I have windows xp pro on my pc. I want to uninstall it and install xp
home edition. Will I lose all my other programs if I do that?

Certainly. 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.

After backing up any data you wish to transfer to the new OS
installation,, 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

Then the backed up data can be restored and applications re-installed.

What
programs must I save to disc.

There shouldn't be a need to "save" any programs; simply re-install
them from the same CDs from which they were originally installed.


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Bruce Chambers

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