Upgrading from Home to Professional

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I am a website developer and have the need for IIS.
Unfortunately my laptop came with XP Home and according
to the info I have now read on the Microsoft site, I must
use XP Pro to run IIS. Appartenly XP Home doesn't
support IIS or PWS.

Is an upgrade from XP Home to XP Pro a problem or is it
fairly seemless. Are there any FAQs that someone could
point me to about any potential issues.

Thanks!
Jeff
 
Should be painless.
The only thing I have ever run into was a driver missing
which im sure can be obtained from the web.
 
Hi Jeff,

You can upgrade from Home to Professional. One of the main issues is that
some Windows XP Home Edition (OEM) versions do not upgrade. The Microsoft
retail version is a supported upgrade path.

Regards,

Ken Simmons

Microsoft Technical Support for Platforms and Business Applications
 
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/n1067622700 - This should give
you all the tips you need.

I have a laptop which came with XP Home, as they all do. I have set up a
home network and realised I needed certain features that are only available
in XP Pro. All I did was insert the XP Professional CD-ROM in and it asked
if I wanted to upgrade my machine, so I did. It took about 39 minutes to
install and it didn't delete any existing files on it. There is one problem
though. Laptops which have XP Home are usually installed on a FAT32 file
system which is likely to make your laptop unstable. By performing this
upgrade it will install XP Pro on a FAT32 system and not NTFS, as it's so
commonly used on. I would recommend you take all your work off the laptop,
format the hard drive and re-install XP Pro on a clean system with NTFS
because in the long run it makes your system more stable.
 
Lurk,
I got luckly. My Compaq laptop is already formatted with
NTFS. I'll let you all know how my upgrade goes.
Thanks,
Jeff
 
Jeff said:
I am a website developer and have the need for IIS.
Unfortunately my laptop came with XP Home and according
to the info I have now read on the Microsoft site, I must
use XP Pro to run IIS. Appartenly XP Home doesn't
support IIS or PWS.

Is an upgrade from XP Home to XP Pro a problem or is it
fairly seemless. Are there any FAQs that someone could
point me to about any potential issues.
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It's an easy upgrade. If you don't need to run ASP pages, a cheaper
alternative might be to use the Apache open source web server with XP
Home.
 
I think you ought to change your web site to conform with
your posts, before anyone could take you seriously.

Upgrades:

From : Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition

Acceptable Upgrades:

Windows XP Professional Retail (Full) Version
Windows XP Professional Upgrade Version

NOTES
Microsoft does not support upgrading Windows XP Home
Edition with Service Pack 1 (SP1) to Windows XP
Professional without SP1.
 
Why take everything off the disk? Just do a convert on the disk to NTFS.
That's what I did and my laptop is just fine.
 
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