Upgrading to XP Professional

[Edward]

I have a copy of XP home but creating ASP.net pages and
using the tutorials requires me to have XP professional.
How do I upgrade from XP home to XP professional without
sarting from scratch and paying a fortune.

[Danny Bleu]

Buy an upgrade?

"Edward" > wrote in message
...
I have a copy of XP home but creating ASP.net pages and
using the tutorials requires me to have XP professional.
How do I upgrade from XP home to XP professional without
sarting from scratch and paying a fortune.

[Harry Ohrn]

You can purchase a Windows XP Upgrade version, turn off your AV program,
then pop the XP Upgrade CD into the drive, select Install.

--

Harry Ohrn - MS MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp


"Edward" > wrote in message
...
> I have a copy of XP home but creating ASP.net pages and
> using the tutorials requires me to have XP professional.
> How do I upgrade from XP home to XP professional without
> sarting from scratch and paying a fortune.

[Ken Blake]

In , Edward wrote:

> I have a copy of XP home but creating ASP.net pages and
> using the tutorials requires me to have XP professional.
> How do I upgrade from XP home to XP professional without
> sarting from scratch and paying a fortune.


There is no special upgrade edition specifically for this use,
but you can use the regular XP Upgrade edition. It doesn't say on
the box that you can use it for this, but it works fine.

--
Ken Blake
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[Edward]

>-----Original Message-----
>Buy an upgrade?
>
>"Edward" > wrote in message
...
>I have a copy of XP home but creating ASP.net pages and
>using the tutorials requires me to have XP professional.
>How do I upgrade from XP home to XP professional without
>sarting from scratch and paying a fortune.
>
>
>.
>

[Edward]

You are a smart one for sure :-)

Let me clarify the above. I have upgraded from Windows
98 to XP Home. I would prefer not to have to buy what
seems to be the only product out there ie an upgrade from
Windows 9x to XP Professional which would render the XP
upgrade a waste of money. I would prefer to be able to
upgrade from XP Home to XP professional which should in
theory be a small upgrade if not an unlock of
functionality already present. Do you know of such an
upgrade?


>-----Original Message-----
>Buy an upgrade?
>
>"Edward" > wrote in message
...
>I have a copy of XP home but creating ASP.net pages and
>using the tutorials requires me to have XP professional.
>How do I upgrade from XP home to XP professional without
>sarting from scratch and paying a fortune.
>
>
>.
>

[Ken Blake]

In , Edward wrote:

> Let me clarify the above. I have upgraded from Windows
> 98 to XP Home. I would prefer not to have to buy what
> seems to be the only product out there ie an upgrade from
> Windows 9x to XP Professional which would render the XP
> upgrade a waste of money. I would prefer to be able to
> upgrade from XP Home to XP professional which should in
> theory be a small upgrade if not an unlock of
> functionality already present. Do you know of such an
> upgrade?


As I already said in another message in this thread, there is no
such product. Your cheapest choice is the regular XP Professional
Upgrade.

--
Ken Blake
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[Edward]

Thanks very much for the help Ken.
That's annoying. Oh well off to the shops again :-)
>-----Original Message-----
>In , Edward wrote:
>
>> Let me clarify the above. I have upgraded from Windows
>> 98 to XP Home. I would prefer not to have to buy what
>> seems to be the only product out there ie an upgrade
from
>> Windows 9x to XP Professional which would render the XP
>> upgrade a waste of money. I would prefer to be able to
>> upgrade from XP Home to XP professional which should in
>> theory be a small upgrade if not an unlock of
>> functionality already present. Do you know of such an
>> upgrade?
>
>
>As I already said in another message in this thread,
there is no
>such product. Your cheapest choice is the regular XP
Professional
>Upgrade.
>
>--
>Ken Blake
>Please reply to the newsgroup
>
>
>.
>

[Ken Blake]

In , Edward wrote:

> Thanks very much for the help Ken.


You're welcome.


> That's annoying. Oh well off to the shops again :-)


I agree. It would have made sense for Microsoft to offer a less
expensive upgrade from Home to Professional--for perhaps a little
more than the difference in price between the two versions.

--
Ken Blake
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> In , Edward wrote:
>>
>>> Let me clarify the above. I have upgraded from Windows
>>> 98 to XP Home. I would prefer not to have to buy what
>>> seems to be the only product out there ie an upgrade from
>>> Windows 9x to XP Professional which would render the XP
>>> upgrade a waste of money. I would prefer to be able to
>>> upgrade from XP Home to XP professional which should in
>>> theory be a small upgrade if not an unlock of
>>> functionality already present. Do you know of such an
>>> upgrade?
>>
>>
>> As I already said in another message in this thread, there is
no
>> such product. Your cheapest choice is the regular XP
Professional
>> Upgrade.
>>
>> --
>> Ken Blake
>> Please reply to the newsgroup
>>
>>
>> .