XP Professional crisis

[Anth]

my father in law installed his academic version of XP
Professional on to my laptop, after his was stolen,
believing that it would activate, it hasnt so now my XP
jome has been upgraded to an OS that i cant now use ,
because the activation period has expired! any body any
suggestions?

 

[Jim Macklin]

Have your father buy you a full version of XP Pro.

If you have the CDs to do so, you can reformat and
re-install Home.


message | my father in law installed his academic version of XP
| Professional on to my laptop, after his was stolen,
| believing that it would activate, it hasnt so now my XP
| jome has been upgraded to an OS that i cant now use ,
| because the activation period has expired! any body any
| suggestions?

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

You can check add/remove programs in control panel. If you elected to save
your setup during the upgrade (not sure if this is even available in an
upgrade from home to pro) you should be able to remove pro in add/remove and
go back to your previous setup.

If not, since you cannot downgrade from Home to Pro, you can either
reinstall Home which will require you to format during XP setup or you can
purchase a legit version of Pro at retail and do a repair install, inserting
the retail version's CD key during setup.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

The only way to change from WinXP Pro to WinXP Home is to format
the drive and start over. There is no supported downgrade path or
technique.

Simply boot from the WinXP Home installation CD. You'll be
offered the opportunity to delete, create, and format partitions 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.)

HOW TO Install Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;316941

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/clean_install.htm

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sg_clean.asp


Bruce Chambers
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[CS]

my father in law installed his academic version of XP
Professional on to my laptop, after his was stolen,
believing that it would activate, it hasnt so now my XP
jome has been upgraded to an OS that i cant now use ,
because the activation period has expired! any body any
suggestions?

Use telephone activation - not through the internet. For information
regarding activation go here:

www.microscum.com

 

[Al Dykes]

Use telephone activation - not through the internet. For information
regarding activation go here:

www.microscum.com

I'll guess that academic editions are non-transferable and I'm
not sure MS will accept a stolen laptop as an excuse.