Battle of the XP Pro and XP Home

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I bought a computer with XP Pro loaded. Recently discovered that the XP Pro
is not "legal" so I went and bought XP Home (all I needed anyway). Loaded XP
Home but now when the computer starts up I get the choice to either run XP
Home in safe mode or XP Pro as before. Bascially I want to run with XP Home
and discard XP Pro so that I am legal and can register for updates etc. Err,
what should I do?

 

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Mike

Your best plan is to start over.. save whatever important files and
documents that have been accumulated, and then use the XP Home CD to
reformat the drive, re-installing XP Home directly after..


--
Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/User


"Mike W" <MikeW@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:365F2A76-DBE4-491C-9AD8-6703EAC5806A@microsoft.com...
>I bought a computer with XP Pro loaded. Recently discovered that the XP
>Pro
> is not "legal" so I went and bought XP Home (all I needed anyway). Loaded
> XP
> Home but now when the computer starts up I get the choice to either run XP
> Home in safe mode or XP Pro as before. Bascially I want to run with XP
> Home
> and discard XP Pro so that I am legal and can register for updates etc.
> Err,
> what should I do?

 

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Thanks Mike. I'll give it a go, but when I reload everything back on might I
reload the conflict again?

Mike

"Mike Hall (MS-MVP)" wrote:

> Mike
>
> Your best plan is to start over.. save whatever important files and
> documents that have been accumulated, and then use the XP Home CD to
> reformat the drive, re-installing XP Home directly after..
>
>
> --
> Mike Hall
> MVP - Windows Shell/User
>
>
> "Mike W" <MikeW@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:365F2A76-DBE4-491C-9AD8-6703EAC5806A@microsoft.com...
> >I bought a computer with XP Pro loaded. Recently discovered that the XP
> >Pro
> > is not "legal" so I went and bought XP Home (all I needed anyway). Loaded
> > XP
> > Home but now when the computer starts up I get the choice to either run XP
> > Home in safe mode or XP Pro as before. Bascially I want to run with XP
> > Home
> > and discard XP Pro so that I am legal and can register for updates etc.
> > Err,
> > what should I do?
>
>
>

 

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Mike

Not if you delete the partitions on the drive.. nothing will be left..

However, when booting after the new load, you will probably get a choice of
'Previous Operating System' or Windows XP Home.. if this happens, you can
edit the boot.ini file to remove the offending choice after having completed
the re-installation..

For more on editing the 'boot.ini' file..

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;289022&sd=tech

Report back to this thread and tell us how you fared..


--
Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/User


"Mike W" <MikeW@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2997557E-7726-4155-BD03-4E4E73C16B99@microsoft.com...
> Thanks Mike. I'll give it a go, but when I reload everything back on
> might I
> reload the conflict again?
>
> Mike
>
> "Mike Hall (MS-MVP)" wrote:
>
>> Mike
>>
>> Your best plan is to start over.. save whatever important files and
>> documents that have been accumulated, and then use the XP Home CD to
>> reformat the drive, re-installing XP Home directly after..
>>
>>
>> --
>> Mike Hall
>> MVP - Windows Shell/User
>>
>>
>> "Mike W" <MikeW@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:365F2A76-DBE4-491C-9AD8-6703EAC5806A@microsoft.com...
>> >I bought a computer with XP Pro loaded. Recently discovered that the XP
>> >Pro
>> > is not "legal" so I went and bought XP Home (all I needed anyway).
>> > Loaded
>> > XP
>> > Home but now when the computer starts up I get the choice to either run
>> > XP
>> > Home in safe mode or XP Pro as before. Bascially I want to run with XP
>> > Home
>> > and discard XP Pro so that I am legal and can register for updates etc.
>> > Err,
>> > what should I do?
>>
>>
>>