Upgrading from Windows XP Home to XP Professional.

[Guest]

HI Everyone,

I just bought a Laptop with Windows XP Home on it. I am willing to upgrade to XP Professional. The Question is Would I need to reinstall all the programs once again on my system or Will I be able to retain the Applications and use them normally ?

 

[purplehaz]

If you do an upgrade install(not a clean install), then all of your apps
will remain. Note: you will probably void your warranty and support for the
laptop if your change the os to xp pro. If you want your warranty and
support I'd call the oem first and find out about it.

HI Everyone,

I just bought a Laptop with Windows XP Home on it. I am willing to

upgrade to XP Professional. The Question is Would I need to reinstall all
the programs once again on my system or Will I be able to retain the
Applications and use them normally ?

 

[PeTe]

If you click Upgrade on the setup menu you'll be OK

-----Original Message-----
HI Everyone,

I just bought a Laptop with Windows XP Home on it.

I am willing to upgrade to XP Professional. The Question
is Would I need to reinstall all the programs once again
on my system or Will I be able to retain the Applications
and use them normally ?

 

[Kathie Elson]

What's the scoop with upgrading from home to pro on a laptop? I have a Sony
Vaio and it came with home. Same issue. It voids the support and warrenty
if you change the OS.

--
Kathie

HI Everyone,

I just bought a Laptop with Windows XP Home on it. I am willing to

upgrade to XP Professional. The Question is Would I need to reinstall all
the programs once again on my system or Will I be able to retain the
Applications and use them normally ?

 

[purplehaz]

The warranty might get voided because the manufacturer only supports xp home
for that laptop. Meaning they have installed it, set it up, and tested it
with xp home and they know of no problems with xp home and the laptop in
regular functioning circumstances. If they do not support xp pro on that
laptop it basically means they haven't tested xp pro with there laptop setup
and are not sure of what the outcome of xp pro running on the laptop would
be. Thus since they don't know how it will act/react with their laptop they
don't support it, thus if you change to xp pro, they don't support it, you
lose warranty and support. They can't help you with a laptop that they did
not test and setup for xp pro. The manufacturer is just covering their a$$,
that's all. They have control of the xp home install and setup and have no
control over a user upgrade to pro, so they can't support something they
have no control over. Kinda like if you run your car on alcohol instead of
gasoline, then blow the engine. The car makers not gonna help you out cause
you used un-support fuel. Sure we know that the laptop will most likely run
fine with xp pro installed as an upgrade, but the manufacturer can't be that
sure, they have to cover themselves.

 

[Kathie Elson]

Thanks for the info. It just seems silly being that I'm using premium fuel.
I bought the Sony Vaio because I'm a Sony person. Needed to load Visual
Studio and IIS. Oh well it runs great. No sticky piston rings here.

 

[purplehaz]

It is silly but not much you can do except not buy oem and build your own,
but with that not an easy thing to do for the normal consumer. You could
always load xp pro and if you ever had to send the laptop back or had a tech
from the oem work on it then you could load xp home before they access the
computer and they'd never know. But that's up to you. )

 

[Alex Nichol]

I just bought a Laptop with Windows XP Home on it. I am willing to upgrade to XP Professional. The Question is Would I need to reinstall all the programs once again on my system or Will I be able to retain the Applications and use them normally ?

The upgrade normally gives no trouble. But on a laptop there is always
a danger that the makers have proprietary hardware needing a customised
version of the system. I would for example not try it on a Compaq

Aside from that make sure that there is something in Pro only that you
*need* - the most likely with a laptop is a need to join a domain on an
office network. But check for these extras at
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp
and if there is nothing that is a clear need that is Pro only, leave
well alone