Upgrading from XP Home to XP Pro

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Tom C

We have a new employee that wants to be able to use his
personal computer that currently has XP Home edition
installed, however since we use a domain at my work is
there any work-arounds to get a computer running the Home
edition onto a domain or is our only option to upgrade him
to Win XP Pro?

Also, is there any known issues with upgrading from XP
Home to Pro?

Thank you,
Tom
 
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Bob Willard

Tom said:
We have a new employee that wants to be able to use his
personal computer that currently has XP Home edition
installed, however since we use a domain at my work is
there any work-arounds to get a computer running the Home
edition onto a domain or is our only option to upgrade him
to Win XP Pro?

Also, is there any known issues with upgrading from XP
Home to Pro?

Thank you,
Tom
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XP HE cannot join a domain. It can access individual resources
of the domain, but that is a PITA. Pay the $ and upgrade to PRO.

The upgrade should be easy, and should not disturb any files
or installed apps. But, to be safe, I advise backing up the PC
before doing the upgrade.
 

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