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| 397263 | 2005-10-18 02:39:00 | how seamless is an upgrade from XP home to XP pro and what do i use, full installer? |
Mirddes (10) | ||
| 397264 | 2005-10-18 02:42:00 | Either an upgrade or the full version of Pro should work. Either install over Home, or do a clean install of XP Pro. (if its the full version). Dunno if an upgrade works from a clean install. It might. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 397265 | 2005-10-18 02:51:00 | wont break anythign will it? im currently using sp2, will that cause problems? im just needing more options than admin and limited i want to have an account for people to play games on, and ONLY games, touch nothign else. that sort of thing, im pretty sure (from the looks of the control they ahev at school) that its possible [edit] if i were to make one those discs where you patch teh XP installer with sp2, would that work? if sp2 turns out to be a problem that is |
Mirddes (10) | ||
| 397266 | 2005-10-18 02:56:00 | Hmm, cant u boot into safe mode with Home and set something like permissions etc? Like what Pro does?? Then reboot into XP and do whatever? As long as the hdd is formatted in NTFS . Not too sure whether it'll break SP2, never had to install Pro, over Home, as I use Pro atm . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 397267 | 2005-10-18 03:05:00 | iirc you can do that in safe mode, but its messy, sorta feels like a beta(a m$ beta remember). id feel better with i tried and tested option, that and last time a played aroudn in there i screwed alot of stuff up | Mirddes (10) | ||
| 397268 | 2005-10-18 03:10:00 | You can make a slipstreamed CD with SP2, but this may work better if u do a clean install . Not too sure if it'll do the same, if u do it from within XP . If u install over a currently installed OS . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 397269 | 2005-10-18 03:15:00 | Make sure you backup all your important data before you do this ;) | stu161204 (123) | ||
| 397270 | 2005-10-18 03:16:00 | from the sounds of where this is going, i think i shoudl wait till i get a spindle of blank DVDs, back up a fair portion of my data, and make a partition just for windows and have a clean install. are there any good defrag apps that allow you t move the data to on part of your hdd. with teh standard defrag tool you get it in a few places with gaps here and tehre, quite messy. id like to have it all at one end |
Mirddes (10) | ||
| 397271 | 2005-10-18 03:23:00 | It'll be better to buy a bigger hdd, and partition it . Or get another hdd ( if u only have 1), and use one for Windows and put everything else on the other hdd . (files / updates you've downloaded etc) Moving data especially program files or even backing up to dvd or cd doesnt always work . It's better to reinstall programs, that have already been installed . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 397272 | 2005-10-18 04:28:00 | i want to have an account for people to play games on, and ONLY games, touch nothign else. that sort of thing, im pretty sure (from the looks of the control they ahev at school) that its possible Theres a lot more to that control than just xp pro ! For a normal home user xp home is fine and you can do want you are suggesting, it depends on xphome's setup ie ntfs or fat32 is the first thing that springs to mind, then there are the registry edits (not for the faint hearted) |
beama (111) | ||
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