upgrade from XP home to Pro

[paul3200]

how much will it cost me to upgrade from XP Home to XP Pro. will i have to do
a clean install. what would happen to all of my programs (MS Office 2007)

 

[Tim Meddick]

It's not an 'upgrade' like 'Service Pack 3' is an upgrade.

It's a whole different version of Windows - you are going to have to try
and find an old copy of Win XP Pro. for sale somewhere, which won't be
easy as it has been discontinued as a supported operating system.

So it should be a lot cheaper than a current OS like Vista - anything
from around $70 - $100 maybe.

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

how much will it cost me to upgrade from XP Home to XP Pro.

You'll have to shop around to see what you can find. I just checked on
Amazon.com and they have prices ranging from $48 to $187.88.

If you buy this, make sure you buy the Upgrade version, which is less
expensive than the Full version. And the OEM version will not do an
upgrade.

Exactly why do you want to do this upgrade? Are you aware that 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 buying Professional instead of Home is a waste of money.
In general, unless you need to join a domain, you probably don't need
Professional.

will i have to do
a clean install.

No, not unless you buy an OEM version.

what would happen to all of my programs (MS Office 2007)

Doing an upgrade means that everything--programs, data, etc.-- stays
as it is. However bear in mind that an upgrade is a big step, and when
you do it, things *can* go wrong. So it's certainly prudent to be sure
you have a backup of any data you can't afford to lose.

 

[db]

perhaps, upgrading to
pro won't give you the
power you may think
is provided.

there are some differences
between home and pro, but
non attribute to system
performance.

for example, in pro you have
an added utility like managing
partitions.

but you can get and install a
such a utility in the home version.

perhaps, you might consider
upgrading your hardware, like
ram memory and disk space
and maybe a more powerful
video card,

that is if you feel that you are
not getting sufficient power from
the operating system.

also, there are some programs
that can contribute to a degradation
in system performance.

to see if third party programs are
bogging down your system,

boot into safe mode and test out
windows.

similarly safe mode w/networking
will permit you to test the browser
and internet.
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[Andrew E.]

A clean install is a must..As for price, xp home upgrade is about 100.00
Pro is 170. (about) An oem will be fine,oem is simply w/o the boxed variation
& the usual documents,make sure thats the product you wish to buy..

 

[Tim Slattery]

A clean install is a must..

A must NOT!

The differences between XP Home and XP Pro are slight. Get a copy of
the Upgrade CD (not OEM, not full retail) and upgrade. If you really
need to switch to Pro at all.

 

[Alister]

A clean install is a must..As for price, xp home upgrade is about 100.00
Pro is 170. (about) An oem will be fine,oem is simply w/o the boxed
variation
& the usual documents,make sure thats the product you wish to buy..

What absolute rubbish!

You don't need to do a clean install.

OEM is not "simply w/o the boxed variation & the usual documents"
it is a very specific licence of XP which does not allow upgrading - and is
tied to hardware by the licence.

Alister

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

A clean install is a must..As for price, xp home upgrade is about 100.00
Pro is 170. (about) An oem will be fine,oem is simply w/o the boxed variation
& the usual documents,make sure thats the product you wish to buy..

Paul, please note that Andrew E. (one of our resident trolls here in
this newsgroup) has said the above ("A clean install is a must..")
here many times. Each time he says it, he is corrected by me and
usually several other, and even pointed to a Microsoft web page
pointing out that the Update version of XP Professional supports
upgrading from XP Home (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/292607). As
always, he ignore the corrections and repeats the same nonsense again
and again.

Because XP Home is so similar to XP Professional, this is the easiest
and most likely successful of all possible updates.

 

[Peter Foldes]

Andrew

As I told you many times. Take a sabbatical from these newsgroups. Preferably one
that lasts forever

 

[Patrick Keenan]

how much will it cost me to upgrade from XP Home to XP Pro. will i have to
do
a clean install. what would happen to all of my programs (MS Office 2007)

There are only a few reasons that you would need or want to do this, most of
them related to advanced networking or encryption.

The place to start is evaluating why, you think it's necessary or desirable.

In some cases, it's cheaper to buy a used XP Pro system with license than to
buy a new XP Pro license. I regularly buy used, XP Pro systems, 3 gHz
Pentium 4's, starting around CDN$125.

There are only two versions that will upgrade an existing XP Home install to
XP Pro. Those versions are both retail packagings; they are the Upgrade
and "Full Retail" versions.

OEM versions can not perform an upgrade, only a clean install or a repair
install.

You always need to back up before beginning something like this. While the
process can be reliable, it's not safe to assume that all will go smoothly.

HTH
-pk