upgrading to xp pro
Discussion
dcw@pr said:
I have a box with XP home running, and have acquired a copy of XP pro. Can I do an upgrade, whereby it will install pro but all my old programs will still work etc, or will i have to do a clean install?
I'm honestly not sure. Personally, I've never tried it. Assuming everything is above board, shove the CD in once Windows is loaded and see if it'll let you upgrade.
If you can it'll start the process, if it won't it'll tell you.
dcw@pr said:
I have a box with XP home running, and have acquired a copy of XP pro. Can I do an upgrade, whereby it will install pro but all my old programs will still work etc, or will i have to do a clean install?
No, you can do an upgrade. I have done it myself on my VAIO laptop.
Just make sure that the XP CD is NOT one of the recovery style discs that are usually bundled with PC's as this will not work. Retail copies (either full or upgrade versions) should be fine.
malman said:
BliarOut said:
Home IS Pro, only the registry changes.
And if anyone wants to tell me that's rubbish, it was David Solomon himself who told us at a seminar.
And if anyone wants to tell me that's rubbish, it was David Solomon himself who told us at a seminar.
I was giving them the benefit of the doubt and hoping that some network component files were missing.
Nope, just turned off in that evil way MS do.... You only have to change one registry key to turn Home into Pro apparently, although the OS watches it like a hawk when it's running. He wouldn't tell us the key though!
BliarOut said:
Podie said:
BliarOut said:
Home IS Pro, only the registry changes.
And if anyone wants to tell me that's rubbish, it was David Solomon himself who told us at a seminar.
And if anyone wants to tell me that's rubbish, it was David Solomon himself who told us at a seminar.
Now wait for the arguement over whether MCE is based on PRo or Home...
Or VAX?
My, my, Mr Out... what a large wooden spoon you have for stiring...
Oi! I am a youngster..! A quick google shows this:
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/software/h
www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/03/xp_hack/
Sounds like more trouble than it's worth, especially if you can't install SP2. Besides, the hack appears to be a pre-install exploit and not something that can be applied to an installed system.
Personally I would back up all your data and then put your XP Pro disc in and see what happens. If it asks you if you would like to do an upgrade then say yes and see where it takes you. As I mentioned earlier, the XP Pro setup has happily upgraded two Win2K installs so far, so I would be surprised if it couldn't cope equally well with upgrading XP Home.
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/software/h
www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/03/xp_hack/
Sounds like more trouble than it's worth, especially if you can't install SP2. Besides, the hack appears to be a pre-install exploit and not something that can be applied to an installed system.
Personally I would back up all your data and then put your XP Pro disc in and see what happens. If it asks you if you would like to do an upgrade then say yes and see where it takes you. As I mentioned earlier, the XP Pro setup has happily upgraded two Win2K installs so far, so I would be surprised if it couldn't cope equally well with upgrading XP Home.
Edited by JonRB on Tuesday 30th January 10:37
Podie said:
BliarOut said:
Believe it or not I've got an Excel spreadsheet that I use for bulk AD user adds/changes. Works a bloomin treat 
I've always created a target file and called it in a script. Interesting thought...
List of christian and surnames is all it needs and every school has one of them. With a few strings and concatenate formulas etc calling the names from sheet 2 we produced 4 batch files that did everything. 1600 users including home directory creation, applying cacls etc in about twenty minutes. using Excel text functions you can easily create usernames in any format you choose.
Sure it's old skool and not very purist but it's phenomenally quick. As we were using net use commands rather than ldif stuff we hit a limitation on password setting but we just block hilighted and set it after the event. IIRC we even had the password set to expire at first login straight from the batch files.
BliarOut said:
Podie said:
BliarOut said:
Believe it or not I've got an Excel spreadsheet that I use for bulk AD user adds/changes. Works a bloomin treat
I've always created a target file and called it in a script. Interesting thought...
List of christian and surnames is all it needs and every school has one of them. With a few strings and concatenate formulas etc calling the names from sheet 2 we produced 4 batch files that did everything. 1600 users including home directory creation, applying cacls etc in about twenty minutes. using Excel text functions you can easily create usernames in any format you choose.
Sure it's old skool and not very purist but it's phenomenally quick. As we were using net use commands rather than ldif stuff we hit a limitation on password setting but we just block hilighted and set it after the event. IIRC we even had the password set to expire at first login straight from the batch files.
Tidy.
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