Upgrading from XP Home to Professional

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I am currently running XP Home. I am required to install a piece of software from work on my home machine and they prefer to support it under XP Professional. I can get the XP Pro upgrade or the complete XP Pro package. I plan on building a new machine in six months. If I use the upgrade then I will have to install XP Home and the upgrade on the new machine. I would prefer to avoid that. If I purchase a new complete XP Pro CD and insert it on my machine will it recognize my Home install and just upgrade me or will I have have to do a complete reinstall of my operating system?
 
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Steve C. Ray

The full version will do an upgrade.

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rideo said:
I am currently running XP Home. I am required to install a piece of
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software from work on my home machine and they prefer to support it under XP
Professional. I can get the XP Pro upgrade or the complete XP Pro package. I
plan on building a new machine in six months. If I use the upgrade then I
will have to install XP Home and the upgrade on the new machine. I would
prefer to avoid that. If I purchase a new complete XP Pro CD and insert it
on my machine will it recognize my Home install and just upgrade me or will
I have have to do a complete reinstall of my operating system?
 

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