XP Home to Windows 2000

[Guest]

I've read most of the postings about XP Professional and downgrading it to Windows 2000. What about XP Home? Is it legal to download XP Home to Windows 2000?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

The only way to "downgrade" from XP Home to Windows 2000
is to reformat your drive and install Windows 2000 "clean". The
XP Home Product Key (license) will not work with Windows 2000.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

 

[Janna]

You can't upgrade from Windows 2000 Pro to XP Home. You
can upgrade to XP Pro. You could also do a full install of
XP Home if you wipe the Win2K Pro.

-----Original Message-----
The only way to "downgrade" from XP Home to Windows 2000
is to reformat your drive and install Windows 2000 "clean". The
XP Home Product Key (license) will not work with Windows 2000.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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| I've read most of the postings about XP Professional

and downgrading it to Windows 2000. What about XP Home?

 

[Alex Nichol]

I've read most of the postings about XP Professional and downgrading it to Windows 2000. What about XP Home? Is it legal to download XP Home to Windows 2000?

2000 to XP Home is not a supported upgrade path - so neither is it a
downgrade one. I think your posts relates to the use of an XP Pro
license to support installing a copy of Win2000 - no you can't with the
XP Home license, and to change to 2000 you have to get an independent
copy of 2000 and install clean

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Legal? Why not? It's (presumably) your computer. No legal issues
enter into the matter as long as you own a legitimate Win2K license.

There is no "rollback" to Win2K.

To replace WinXP with an earlier OS, you'll have to boot from the
appropriate boot disk, format the hard drive, and install. There is
no supported downgrade path or technique.

Simply boot from the Win2K installation CD. You'll be offered the
opportunity to delete, create, and/or format the system partition as
part of the installation process. (You may need to re-arrange the
order of boot devices in the PC's BIOS to boot from the CD.)


Bruce Chambers

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[Hermes]

Before the MVP (M$ Victim Poster) Hermes responded, 320Granite typed:

I've read most of the postings about XP Professional and downgrading it to Windows 2000. What about XP Home? Is it legal to download XP Home to Windows 2000?

Is it legal? Of course. At least it is not illegal, it is nothing more
than a contract dispute with the eula if M$ doesn't allow it according to
the license. XP is just 2000 with bloatware and M$spyware anyway, so you
are not missing anything. Good luck.

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hermes
DRM sux! Treacherous Computing kills our virtual civil liberties!
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html

Windows XP crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.

Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

The above post is not at all helpful and represents someone
one has little knowledge of Windows licensing.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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| Before the MVP (M$ Victim Poster) Hermes responded, 320Granite typed:
|
| > I've read most of the postings about XP Professional and downgrading it to Windows 2000. What about XP
Home? Is it legal to download XP Home to Windows 2000?
|
| Is it legal? Of course. At least it is not illegal, it is nothing more
| than a contract dispute with the eula if M$ doesn't allow it according to
| the license. XP is just 2000 with bloatware and M$spyware anyway, so you
| are not missing anything. Good luck.
|
| --
| hermes
| DRM sux! Treacherous Computing kills our virtual civil liberties!
| http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
|
| Windows XP crashed.
| I am the Blue Screen of Death.
| No one hears your screams.
|
| Yesterday it worked.
| Today it is not working.
| Windows is like that.
|