Upgrade WinXP Home to XP Pro

[ausglaze]

Having Win XP Home with SP2 and SP3, may I do an upgrade with Win XP Pro with
SP2 ?

 

[Malke]

Having Win XP Home with SP2 and SP3, may I do an upgrade with Win XP Pro
with SP2 ?

No. You will need to slipstream SP3 into your XP Pro and create a new
install disk. This is very easy to do. Of course you will be wise and back
up your data before upgrading.

How to slipstream SP2/SP3 into XP
http://www.nliteos.com/ - nLite
http://www.theeldergeek.com/slipstreamed_xpsp2_cd.htm
http://theeldergeek.com/slipstreamed_xpsp3_cd.htm

Malke

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Having Win XP Home with SP2 and SP3, may I do an upgrade with Win XP Pro with
SP2 ?

In addition to Malke's good advice, let me add the following question:

Are you sure you want to do this? Are you aware that XP Home and
Professional are identical except that Professional includes a few
features (mostly related to security and networking) missing from
Home? Most home users don't need and would never use these extra
features and will see no benefits by upgrading.

For details go to

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

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/whichxp.asp>

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.asp

Also note another point, not included in any of the above:
Professional allows ten concurrent network connections, and Home only
five.