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I have all kinds of trouble with XP Pro, from word and
excel crashing to taking 30 seconds to past a simple 30k text. I wonder if it's possible to downgrade to XP Home and get rid of the troubles |
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There is no "downgrade" path and even if there was it would not fix your
probs. You would have to format and install xp home. XP pro is the same as XP home except it has some advanced add-ons and features home does not. Both are equally stable. Have you done regular maintenance of computer, have you tried to uninstall / reinstall office? Or try a format and clean install to get rid of old probs. "Peter B" wrote in message ... I have all kinds of trouble with XP Pro, from word and excel crashing to taking 30 seconds to past a simple 30k text. I wonder if it's possible to downgrade to XP Home and get rid of the troubles |
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Peter B wrote:
I have all kinds of trouble with XP Pro, from word and excel crashing to taking 30 seconds to past a simple 30k text. I wonder if it's possible to downgrade to XP Home and get rid of the troubles No, you would have to reformat and install XP Home clean. However, don't waste your money, if your having problems with Pro then you most likely will with home. Actually, a reformat and reinstall of Pro would serve the same purpose as doing it with Home. They are identical in their core technology, Pro just has some additional features in security and networking - nothing that would cause your system to be unstable versus Home. Some things to think about: Did you run the XP compatibility checker before installing Pro? Do you have all the latest XP drivers for your peripherals, especially your video card and sound card? Have you run disk cleanup, chkdsk, and defrag lately? Before doing a clean install, consider doing a repair install of XP Pro. Set your bios to boot from cd, boot up with the XP cdrom, select new install at first screen, then at next screen select your existing install and press r for repair. This will do an in place installation over your existing XP Pro while retaining all your programs and data. As always though, with any os install, I would recommend backing up your important data files in case something goes wrong. Then, if none of these makes it better, consider a clean install of XP Pro. Again, back up your important data files. Hope this helps, -- Don Burnette remove clothes when replying via email |
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In , Peter B wrote:
I have all kinds of trouble with XP Pro, from word and excel crashing to taking 30 seconds to past a simple 30k text. I wonder if it's possible to downgrade to XP Home and get rid of the troubles 1. No, it's not possible to downgrade to XP Home. 2. Even if you could, Home would not solve your problems. XP Professional and Home are identical, except that Professional includes a few features (mostly related to networking and security) missing from Home. Look elsewhere for a solution. You might want to try reinstalling MS Office. -- Ken Blake Please reply to the newsgroup |
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Peter B wrote:
I have all kinds of trouble with XP Pro, from word and excel crashing to taking 30 seconds to past a simple 30k text. I wonder if it's possible to downgrade to XP Home and get rid of the troubles If you are having such troubles in Pro, switching to Home is not the solution. But it is difficult to make any suggestion on such little description. Best guess is there is hardware trouble of some sort. -- Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows - File Systems) Bournemouth, U.K. |
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