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Do I have to uninstall XP Home edition before I can install XP Professional? I really want to keep XP Home as there are a lot of features I use.
Many thanks
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Didi said:Do I have to uninstall XP Home edition before I can install XP
Professional? I really want to keep XP Home as there are a lot of features
I use.
Many thanks
Tom said:Consider why you would need Pro! Most home users would not need the extra
features that are in Pro that are primarily used in advanced networking and
systems wide security settings for businesses. (Home doesn't have some of
those features). If you get Pro, just get the upgrade version, as it will,
99.9% of the time, upgrade flawlessly (unless you have an outage or failure
of some kind during the process, there are no guarantees).
For more information, read here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/homeusers/default.mspx
"flawlessly" when I've had an absolutely miserable experience tryingterez said:I'm just wondering why you say XP Pro will upgrade almost always
and reformat my hard drive to elimate data file errors. No such luck.I just paid $200 for Windows XP Pro Upgrade and I'm so sorry I did.
I keep getting different error codes and thought I'd just go ahead
all I can get is Scandisk which runs flawlessly, which doesn't solveI get the blue screen and tried the chkdsk/r function suggested and
off my Windows XP Pro in order to get some semblance of help for theWith an installation so messed up, how would I get the PID number
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------terez said:I'm just wondering why you say XP Pro will upgrade almost always "flawlessly" when I've had an absolutely miserable experience trying to install Windows XP Pro over my Windows 98 SE? I can't even get the online support shown here because my Installation is so stalled out that I can't even get the PID number to enter for the on-line support.
I just paid $200 for Windows XP Pro Upgrade and I'm so sorry I did.
I keep getting different error codes and thought I'd just go ahead and reformat my hard drive to elimate data file errors. No such luck. Even the recovery disk won't work on my Windows 98 SE now because of the partial installation.
I get the blue screen and tried the chkdsk/r function suggested and all I can get is Scandisk which runs flawlessly, which doesn't solve any problem for me.
With an installation so messed up, how would I get the PID number off my Windows XP Pro in order to get some semblance of help for the miserable experiences I've had without being charged by Microsoft to get their brand new product operational?
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I had Windows 98 SE and it worked fine. I found that there were a growing
number of programs which were not supported by anything less than Windows
2000, so I decided to upgrade. I got a copy of XP Pro and installed it over
98.
All hell has now broken loose on my system. I can't access most of my old
programs, IE doesn't work at all - I get a message saying:
ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved
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While trying to retrieve the URL:
http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?prd=ie&pver=6&ar=msnhome
The following error was encountered:
Connection Failed
The system returned:
[No Error]The remote host or network may be down. Please try the request
again.
Your cache administrator is webmaster.
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Generated Sun, 02 Oct 2005 20:49:38 GMT by server (squid/2.5.STABLE10)
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whenever I try to access any page through IE - I've managed to get in here
through Mozilla FireFox.
I get "mini-hangs" where the screen flickers and I can't type anything for
about a second or so.
I get blue screens at startup and I keep getting asked for networking
permissions, despite my computer being a stand-alone system and not connected
to any others.
Since install three days ago, I've picked up enough viruses to kill half the
world's population, enough worms to stock a good-sized compost heap and
enough Trojans to scare Achilles and the entire Ancient Greek army to death.
I've run SpyBot, AdAware and PCPitstop Optimizer several times (but I can't
access PCPitstop itself because I can't use IE :-( ). I've now managed to
retrieve Zone Alarm and my AntiVirus program and get them working with XP,
but I think the damage is done :-(. I got the occasional intruder before,
but NOTHING like this lot.
I've also got a toolbar I can't delete with options I can't remove ("Hot
Dating", "Casino Play" and stuff like that) - and so on and so on and so on.
I've also got something called "Safely Remove Hardware" stuck in my system
tray. Like that toolbar, it's got no right click option and can't be removed.
I don't think there's anything I haven't got :-(.
My hard disk is partitioned into three sections - C: D: and E: with about 13
gigs of space on D: and E:. I've been told to format my C: drive, but I'm
reluctant to do that in case I can't access my computer at all because my A:
drive hasn't worked for months, so I can't use a rescue floppy if I can't
access my CD ROM drive :-(.
HELP PLEASE!!!
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