Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. wrote:
My new machine came with XP Home. To get my office up and printing, I
put in a few programs.
Can I "upgrade" the XP Home with XP Pro -- or do I need to do a clean
install?
Clearly I'm behind in reading the ProFox list, so it's too late for your
question, but
Just pointing out a difference between home and xp ;)
Thanks,
Nick Cipollina
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Apache... :-)
Nick Cipollina wrote:
You forgot to mention IIS.
Thanks,
Nick Cipollina
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You forgot to mention IIS.
Thanks,
Nick Cipollina
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Ok, here's the
> Right, Yeah, for people who demand the most complexity and obfuscation...
Well, for a small network you can get away with XP Home in a Workgroup,
sure. If you had 50 machines on a network to administer and keep secure
you'd be begging for things like group policy and centralised
administration a
Ok, here's the stuff that's in Pro that ain't in Home...
Remote Desktop -- Don't need it when you have LogMeIn Free...
Offline Files and Folders -- Uh, CD Rom or why not copy from one machine
to the other...
Worst case; Copy from one machine to my FTP site on my web site to
the other machine
> > It appears that the only damn thing missing in Home vs. Pro is the
> > ability to join a domain.
Bit more than that to be honest:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/howtobuy/choosing2.mspx
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On 8/11/06, Chet Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I didn't have any issues with installing XP Pro over XP Home on my
laptop. I have issues with XP Pro though.
Your network issues are probably XP Pro issues (as mine are). XP Pro
screws down your system even tighter than Home so my Home and
I didn't have any issues with installing XP Pro over XP Home on my
laptop. I have issues with XP Pro though.
Your network issues are probably XP Pro issues (as mine are). XP Pro
screws down your system even tighter than Home so my Home and Win2K
machines have a hell of a time connecting or
Personally I would always do a clean install as it's a good opportunity
to clear out the OS cruft that builds up over time.
However if you have neither the time nor inclination, you can indeed
upgrade XP Home to XP Pro. There's a special upgrade edition which is
cheaper.
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Alan Bourke
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If you have a choice, do a clean install. I've got a notebook that I
had no choice to install pro over, and although it went fine, it
continues to have occasional networking issues that I've never had
problems on machines were I did a pro install from scratch.
At 10:03 PM 8/8/2006, you wrote:
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