Hi, i'm a bit of a Noob so please forgive my ignorance.

I have a genuine copy of XP home with SP2 installed and all of my apps etc were installed AFTER the sp2 install. However, i wish to upgrade to XP professional as i have an education dept disk from work, but unfortunately that copy is older than sp2 and so it won't install over the top as an upgrade. I get an error stating that the copy of xp on the computer is newer than on the cd.

Therefore i was am thinking of unistalling sp2, upgrading to xp pro, then reinstalling sp2 afterwards.

My questions a
1) If i uninstall sp2 will i lose all my apps seeing as though they were installed AFTER the sp2 upgrade?

2) Is this going to work or should i not bother?

Thanks
John

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