FROM PROFESSIONAL TO HOME

Hi,
Marry XMas,
I have a PC running Win XP Pro and I need to substitute it with Win XP
Home....If I run the Installation CD it tells me that upgrade from Pro
to Home is not allowed....so I can Install Home substituting Pro...But
am I going to lose all installed programs? Do any of you know
about?...any suggestion is well accepted...thanks...
L.C.

Hi

You can't revert to XP Home without performing a 'Clean' install. That will
mean all data and programs will be lost from the existing installation.

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"Luigi" <luigi.coppolino@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> Marry XMas,
> I have a PC running Win XP Pro and I need to substitute it with Win XP
> Home....If I run the Installation CD it tells me that upgrade from Pro
> to Home is not allowed....so I can Install Home substituting Pro...But
> am I going to lose all installed programs? Do any of you know
> about?...any suggestion is well accepted...thanks...
> L.C.
>

Yes you are going to lose all installed programs from windows. However you
can install windows xp home and chose not to format the harddrive, in that
case all your files will remain on the harddrive but they will not be
installed in windows. There is no way of upgrading from Pro to Home btw.

"Luigi" wrote:

> Hi,
> Marry XMas,
> I have a PC running Win XP Pro and I need to substitute it with Win XP
> Home....If I run the Installation CD it tells me that upgrade from Pro
> to Home is not allowed....so I can Install Home substituting Pro...But
> am I going to lose all installed programs? Do any of you know
> about?...any suggestion is well accepted...thanks...
> L.C.
>
>

But if I make a backup of the system state and than restore it after
the Home installation???
L.

no good.
Why do you wish to downgrade?

"Luigi" <luigi.coppolino@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1135767918.335520.279400@o13g2000cwo.googlegr oups.com...
> But if I make a backup of the system state and than restore it after
> the Home installation???
> L.
>

On 28/12/2005 "Luigi" <luigi.coppolino@gmail.com> wrote:
>But if I make a backup of the system state and than restore it after
>the Home installation???
>L.
>

Still NO! You can not backup in Pro the entire system and then try to restore
the entire system after installing Home. It will come back to Pro.

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Y.

On 28/12/2005 "Luigi" <luigi.coppolino@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>Marry XMas,
>I have a PC running Win XP Pro and I need to substitute it with Win XP
>Home....If I run the Installation CD it tells me that upgrade from Pro
>to Home is not allowed....so I can Install Home substituting Pro...But
>am I going to lose all installed programs? Do any of you know
>about?...any suggestion is well accepted...thanks...
>L.C.
>

Why? Pro is the more "complete" version of XP.

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Y.

In news:1135766865.693483.44110@g47g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com,
Luigi <luigi.coppolino@gmail.com> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> Hi,
> Marry XMas,
> I have a PC running Win XP Pro and I need to substitute it with Win XP
> Home....If I run the Installation CD it tells me that upgrade from Pro
> to Home is not allowed....so I can Install Home substituting Pro...But
> am I going to lose all installed programs? Do any of you know
> about?...any suggestion is well accepted...thanks...
> L.C.

You could install it on a separate partition and dual-boot the system but
the question remains, why?

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Luigi wrote:
> I have a PC running Win XP Pro and I need to substitute it with Win
> XP Home....If I run the Installation CD it tells me that upgrade
> from Pro to Home is not allowed....so I can Install Home
> substituting Pro...But am I going to lose all installed programs?
> Do any of you know about?...any suggestion is well
> accepted...thanks...

Windows XP Professional edition to Windows XP Home Edition is a "downgrade".
In order to perform a "downgrade", you must either perform a parallel
installation (on the same partition or on another partition on the system -
which is really not a downgrade - but sharing the computer) or a clean
installation (all data aand applications are removed from the computer -
nothing is left - the new OS is installed and then you must patch and
install your applications again - restoring your data from your most current
backup set.)

The only reasons to "downgrade" from Windows XP Professional to Windows XP
Home I can think of are:
- have an illegal copy of Windows XP Professional on the machien and want
to go legitimate - but Home is cheaper.
- old work laptop/computer (now yours) so the copy is no longer legitimate
for you and Home was cheaper.
- You have a retail copy (did not come installed on the system - is not
labeled "OEM") of Windows XP Professional and wish to use it on another
computer - so you wan tto uninstall it from this one and install on
another - and Home was cheaper.
- You have lost the installation media for the laptop, didn't know the
difference (HOME vs PRO) at the time - bought the cheapest version of
Windows XP you could find (HOME - possibly even OEM) and now discover there
is a difference.

I suppose there could be variations on each of those - and in many ways -
some of them already are variations.

You lose some features (admittedly you may not use them - but if you already
own Windows XP Professional..) when you go from Professional "down to"
Windows XP Home edition. Since this is a move "down" - you cannot save much
from one install and get it to work on the other. You could save your
profile/settings using the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard.. But you
will have to reinstall all patches/updates/drivers/applications/games after
you install the OS.

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