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If you are currently having problems with your XP Home
installation, upgrading to XP Pro will likely not solve them.
I would suggest performing a "repair install" of your current
XP Home installation.

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
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"cmesh" wrote:

| if i do this, will i lose all my files? i am having problems with hpme ed
| getting up and thought if i load pro will i still keep all my files, or will
| i lose them because they are different o/s?

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Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote:

> If you are currently having problems with your XP Home
> installation, upgrading to XP Pro will likely not solve them.

That's true but where did the OP indicate anything about having
problems? There are lots of good reasons to use Pro over Home.

> I would suggest performing a "repair install" of your current
> XP Home installation.

Considering that you have no clue as to what, if any, problems the OP
may or may not be having with Home and blindly assuming that they want
to upgrade to Pro to fix these unknown and possibly non-existent
problems, this is terrible advice. A repair install is the next to last
resort in almost all cases anyway.

Steve