XP Home to XP Professional

[Taishi]

New PC purchased
XP Home installed
need XP Professional or 2000 Server

Prefer XP Professional

Is it possible to upgrade from XP Home edition to XP Professional?

How can I maintain my wallpaper and some of my programs?

Thanks in advance

[Chris Lanier]

Greetings

Yes you just preform an upgrade install of XP Pro. All your settings will
stay the same.

"Taishi" > wrote in message
...
> New PC purchased
> XP Home installed
> need XP Professional or 2000 Server
>
> Prefer XP Professional
>
> Is it possible to upgrade from XP Home edition to XP Professional?
>
> How can I maintain my wallpaper and some of my programs?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>

[Ron Martell]

"Taishi" > wrote:

>New PC purchased
>XP Home installed
>need XP Professional or 2000 Server
>
>Prefer XP Professional
>
>Is it possible to upgrade from XP Home edition to XP Professional?
>
>How can I maintain my wallpaper and some of my programs?
>
>Thanks in advance
>

You will need the Retail version of Windows XP Pro. The Retail
Upgrade is fully adequate and is much less expensive than the Retail
Full Install version of XP Pro.

It should install with no problems and all of your installed
applications, configuration settings, and user data files should be
preserved. However you should have a backup of anything important
"just in case". And Windows Updates will have to be downloaded and
installed again.

An OEM version of XP Pro will not do the upgrade.

This is probably the simplest operating system upgrade ever, as there
are no hardware compatibility or capacity issues to be concerned
about. If your system is okay for XP Home then it will be equally
okay for XP Pro.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

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