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Upgrade OEM XP home to XP Professional
See if you can get the CDRW working, if so you can complete your XP Home install then add the sound card after the upgrade (you don't really need sound to do .... If I were able to get the drive to work and enlarge the Win98 partition, I would then either delete the WinXP partition, or uninstall WinXP Pro, which,

My XP Debaccle
You CAN upgrade from WinXP Home to WinXP Pro with the upgrade disk. Please get your facts straight. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby! http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

2nd Hard Drive as a backup
Tom Koch tomk...@mvps.org microsoft public windows inetexplorer ie6_outlookexpress In news:ujH7OLkTCHA.3740@tkmsftngp08, Justin Miller wrote: Somehow, it upgraded Internet Explorer to 6.0, but left 5.5SP2 for my outlook Express, and now I can't get it to upgrade, any suggestions? From inside IE, click Tools|Windows

Reformatted Hard Drive - Can't Install Win XP Upgrade
My winxp is completely updated with latest ms patches so am not sure why. I want to upgrade as i don't want to lose my existing settings/data/sofware etc. anyone know why? You might want to just get a Mac and install it that way. Apple's hardware is much better quality and more compatible with Windows than Wintel

WinXP Pro or Home Version Upgrade or Full????
Does anyone have any idea what can prejudice a computer against one specific upgrade? Or is Q328310 buggy? Has anyone shared my experience with this particulr upgrade? Could it be that the other fixes are a cummulative update of q328310 for WinXP-Pro? What part of the system is affected by this fix? Rgds, Horst.

Windows XP Pro Upgrade Question
Pardon me for jumping in, but maybe I can help a little. I use WinXP Pro and Quicken 2004 Basic, and I use the One Step Update every business day. Hopefully someone with Q2004 can address this; sorry I can't offer more help at this time. If no one jumps on this with thw answer, one thing you might do is have

XP - 98 Network
Mike and Peanut, I think he is refering to the problem I have had, that because no-one could give me a solution, resulted in me formating my hard drive and re-installing WinXP Pro. After re-installation, I found that windows update does not function. I can access the web site, it scans my pc, provides a list of

W2K Pro to WinXP - Remote Access - Reversable?
A Retail version is licensed to one machine at any one time ( I think). d) Can not be used for purposes of an upgrade installation (ie it's not a'qualifying should I avoid OEM Win XP Pro and instead buy a cheaper laptop with OEM Win XP Home and then with the money saved spend �169 on the Win XP Pro upgrade?

upgrade xp home (retail ver) to xp pro (msdn ver)
Bruce Chambers bruce_a_chamb...@h0tmail.com microsoft public windowsxp help_and_support Greetings -- No, you can't. First of all, WinNT is not a valid qualifying product for an upgrade to WinXP Home. (It is, however, a qualifying product for an upgrade to WinXP Pro.) Secondly, you have only one license for the

Memory upgrade for a pIII-700
Hi - I would be gratefull for any suggestions - I am trying to instal FP2002 onto my new laptop running Windows XP Pro. I get so far through the installation process but then the progress bar in the box saying 'preparing to instal' stops half way along and freezes at that point' I have Norton AV and firewall

hyper-threading, WinXP Pro and P4T533
The Win98 Upgrade CD _will_ work as a qualifying OS installation CD for an upgrade to WinXP. 2. Won't work. WinNT can only be upgraded to WinXP Pro, not WinXP Home. 3. Won't work. Product Keys are bound to the specific type and language of CD/license (OEM, Volume, retail, full, or Upgrade) with which they are

One Step Update Question
Sorry, I can't remember the number of the article now. "Marc Reinig" <nos...@nowwhere.com> wrote in message news:OVEN$3YbCHA.1556@tkmsftngp11... I upgraded to WinXP Pro from WinME. Outlook 2000 had been working fine, but now will not. Originally, I got a message when I tried to launch it or upgrade that '<Common

WinXP Pro "upgrade" vs. full edition
Here's the deal: I want to run all 5 machines in a network with WinXP Pro. 4 of them were w98 and I upgraded without a problem. But this fifth machine is giving me a very hard time...it's Can anybody help me with this one? I really can't figure out how to search into the MS knowledge base... Pepe Milano, Italy.

Upgrade Time :)
Thagor tha...@email.coma microsoft public windowsxp general Thagor <tha...@email.coma> wrote in news:Xns9608D29A5A208thagmailcoma@ 207.46.248.16: BRH <BRH> wrote in news:bK6dndYiAYJpQ4LfRVn-tA@comcast.com: A few weeks ago, I performed a lot of tweaks to WinXP Pro in order to cut back some of it's overhead and

Upgrading PC with WinXP Pro
the only difference between the bootleg copy and the original is that the bootleg copy is already preactivated and you can't install xp sp1 or sp1a. that's about it. oh Greetings -- You need to purchase and use a legitimate full retail copy of WinXP Pro to perform a repair (aka in-place upgrade) installation,

WinXP Home Upgrade
Hi - guys i have been trying to upgrade from WinXP to Ultimate. My system passed the compatibilty check with the message "There are no known system issues preventing you from upgrading to Windows Vista." Every time i try to upgrade I receive the following messages "compliance check disabled" and "upgrade compliance

Can't Download updates.
What happens if I want to do a _clean_ install of an Upgrade version of Windows XP? Will WinXP expect me to insert a Microsoft Windows 98 CD? If so, I can't do that. If I have to install WinXP over the top of Win98, will WinXP delete Win98, install itself and then ask me for the Win98 CD?

XPS_R450 upgraded to WinXP Pro (multi-function printer ...
I had to reload Office 97, including Access 97, on Windows XP Pro SP2. Now when I start Access 97 I get this error: " can't find the database you specified, or you didn't specify a database at all.. Specify a valid database name in the command line, and include a path if necessary, so that can find the application.

OS?
WinXP Pro on a notebook. Regards, -mARKUS "DDT" <NOS...@NOSPAM.COM> wrote in message news:ujrB4KCzBHA.2156@tkmsftngp02... "DevNull...@Mail2www.com" DevNullius I'm not disagreeing with you, but if this update was meant for only certain systems, why is it listed as a critical update, which can't be removed from

Suddenly can't access Windows update
NOW I AM TOLD THAT I CAN'T HAVE THIS NEW OS BECAUSE I DIDN'T BUY A PRE-CONFIGURED PC with the OEM version of XP Pro (32bit), WHICH I ALREADY OWN ANYWAY??? Uh no. That is simply WRONG. No it is you that is wrong. just go to http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/upgrade/default.mspx and you can trade in your XP