XP Professional vs Home Edition

[Mark]

I am a licensed owner of Professional. I just bought a
Dell notebook with Home Edition which I want to upgrade
to the Professional Edition. Do I have to uninstall the
Hme Edition or can I upgrade from my Professional
software?
Thanks

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I am a licensed owner of Professional. I just bought a
Dell notebook with Home Edition which I want to upgrade
to the Professional Edition. Do I have to uninstall the
Hme Edition or can I upgrade from my Professional
software?

You have a copy/license of Windows XP Professional that is not installed on
any other computer, then you can use that (assuming Retail or Upgrade copy
of the OS here) to upgrade XP Home.. Yes..

If it is an OEM copy, then it is designed only to do a FULL install, not
upgrade.

If you have installed the copy/license on another PC already - then you will
have to purchase a new license.

 

[Ed H]

According to Dell, my OEM copy of WinXP Home Version is upgradeable, they
even offer one of their own for sale.

 

[sameer]

-----Original Message-----
I am a licensed owner of Professional. I just bought a
Dell notebook with Home Edition which I want to upgrade
to the Professional Edition. Do I have to uninstall the
Hme Edition or can I upgrade from my Professional
software?
Thanks
.

Yes, you can upgrade it by Professional License

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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I am a licensed owner of Professional. I just bought a
Dell notebook with Home Edition which I want to upgrade
to the Professional Edition. Do I have to uninstall the
Hme Edition or can I upgrade from my Professional
software?

If I understand you correctly, the answer is that you may do
neither.

If your copy is XP Professional is installed on another computer,
you can not install it on a second copy at all. The rule is quite
clear. It's one copy (or one license) for each computer. There's
nothing new here. This is exactly the same rule that's been in
effect on every version of Windows starting with Windows 3.1. The
only thing new with XP is that there's now an enforcement
mechanism.

On the other hand, if your copy of XP Professional is not in use,
or if you first uninstall it from where it is, you may do this as
long as it's a retail version. Be aware, though, that the license
for an OEM version restricts it the first computer it's installed
on, and it can never be moved to another machine.

So if yours is a retail copy not otherwise in use, you can use it
either for a clean installation, or an upgrade over the top of XP
Home. If it's an OEM version, and it's never been installed on
another computer, you may use it for a clean installation only.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I am a licensed owner of Professional. I just bought a
Dell notebook with Home Edition which I want to upgrade
to the Professional Edition. Do I have to uninstall the
Hme Edition or can I upgrade from my Professional
software?

You have a copy/license of Windows XP Professional that is not
installed on any other computer, then you can use that (assuming
Retail or Upgrade copy of the OS here) to upgrade XP Home.. Yes..

If it is an OEM copy, then it is designed only to do a FULL install,
not upgrade.

If you have installed the copy/license on another PC already - then
you will have to purchase a new license.

According to Dell, my OEM copy of WinXP Home Version is upgradeable,
they even offer one of their own for sale.

You are correct - I never said you could not upgrade an installed OEM copy,
I stated you could not use an OEM copy to upgrade with.

In other words, you may well have Dell OEM Windows XP Home installed, but if
you purchased the "upgrade" from Dell, my bet is that they are selling you
the same upgrade you could go into any store and buy - Windows XP "Upgrade
Edition" Professional. In that case all you must have is a previous and
supported upgradable OS.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I am a licensed owner of Professional. I just bought a
Dell notebook with Home Edition which I want to upgrade
to the Professional Edition. Do I have to uninstall the
Hme Edition or can I upgrade from my Professional
software?

Unless you remove the Pro version from any machine it is on, you will
need to buy a new copy. The idea that a copy can be installed on a
desktop machine *and* on a laptop applies only to Microsoft Office, not
Windows (and with limitations even then)

If you buy a new retail upgrade version of XP Pro you can run it from
the Home edition to upgrade that. First make sure the laptop *needs*
some facility in Pro only - about the only item relevant would be
ability to join a domain in an office network. Don't do it just to
sound good. Apart from those extras the systems are identical