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XP Pro to XP Home
Have a laptop on which I am now getting the message that Windows XP
Professional is not genuine Microsoft. Have been getting this for about 3 weeks. Have purchased Windows XP Home. Can I install this onto the XP Pro laptop? If so, are there any special things I should do? Should I use Control Panel/Add Remove Programs to remove XP Pro and then use the CD to install XP Home? Other methods will be appreciated. Thanks in advance. |
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XP Pro to XP Home
Unfortunately Home is considered a lower tier product from Pro. It's
not possible to downgrade. You'll need to do a fresh install and back up your personal data beforehand. You can use FAST ( Files and Settings Transfer ), but it's sometimes unreliable. Just make sure that whatever type of backup you perform the data is verified. This helps ensure that when needed the data can be recovered. The other issue is a fresh install will cause you to loose any OEM installed apps on the notebook. Hopefully you have installation media for all your applications. "Max" wrote in message ... Have a laptop on which I am now getting the message that Windows XP Professional is not genuine Microsoft. Have been getting this for about 3 weeks. Have purchased Windows XP Home. Can I install this onto the XP Pro laptop? If so, are there any special things I should do? Should I use Control Panel/Add Remove Programs to remove XP Pro and then use the CD to install XP Home? Other methods will be appreciated. Thanks in advance. |
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XP Pro to XP Home
"Max" wrote in message ... Have a laptop on which I am now getting the message that Windows XP Professional is not genuine Microsoft. Have been getting this for about 3 weeks. Have purchased Windows XP Home. Can I install this onto the XP Pro laptop? If so, are there any special things I should do? Should I use Control Panel/Add Remove Programs to remove XP Pro and then use the CD to install XP Home? Other methods will be appreciated. Thanks in advance. You can certainly perform a clean install of XP Pro. Before you do that though, make certain that you have all of the special chipset drivers for your machine. The OEM is about the only source for such. You cannot remove XP via Control Panel/Add Remove Programs. Instead, after making a backup of all of your files and folders, insert the CD into the drive and enable booting from the CD drive first in the BIOS (also called System Setup) The CD will proceed to wipe out the previous installation and put XP on your computer. After this is finished, you install the chipset drivers (else the laptop won't work very well). During the installation of XP, you may receive the message "Press any key to boot from the CD". Do not press any key because you definitely do not need to boot from the CD. Jim |
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XP Pro to XP Home
Max wrote:
Have a laptop on which I am now getting the message that Windows XP Professional is not genuine Microsoft. Have been getting this for about 3 weeks. Have purchased Windows XP Home. Can I install this onto the XP Pro laptop? If so, are there any special things I should do? Should I use Control Panel/Add Remove Programs to remove XP Pro and then use the CD to install XP Home? Other methods will be appreciated. Thanks in advance. You can install Windows XP Home on the laptop that currently has Windows XP Professional installed. You could actually install any compatable OS, not just Windows XP Home, etc. However - you will be performing a clean installation (everything wiped out, everything installed fresh, whatever is not backed up will be lost.) http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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XP Pro to XP Home
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:30:01 -0800, Max
wrote: Have a laptop on which I am now getting the message that Windows XP Professional is not genuine Microsoft. Have been getting this for about 3 weeks. Have purchased Windows XP Home. Can I install this onto the XP Pro laptop? If so, are there any special things I should do? Should I use Control Panel/Add Remove Programs to remove XP Pro It's not a question of "should" you do that, it's a question of *can* you. The answer is no. You can never uninstall any version of Windows from within Windows. That would be like sawing off the branch of a tree while you're sitting on the branch. Yes, you can install XP Home on the laptop, but you have to do a clean installation. Downgrades from Professional to Home are not possible. To do a clean installation, first back up any data that you need to external media, but note that all programs will have to be reinstalled. Backing up programs won't help you. Just boot from the Windows XP CD (change the BIOS boot order if necessary to accomplish this) and follow the prompts for a clean installation (delete the existing partition by pressing "D" when prompted, then create a new one). You can find detailed instructions he http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html or here http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org/how...windows_xp.htm or here http://windowsxp.mvps.org/XPClean.htm or here http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/clean_install.htm -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
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