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How to install XP pro on an XP home laptop, Please see details
anoop1234
post Apr 8 2007, 01:43 PM
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Hello,

I have an XP pro CD and would like to install it but I only have the product key for XP home...will this key work? How do I go about installing it? I would like to reformat my entire laptop but dont have any recovery CDs and the program that I have will not allow me to use it until I insert the recovery CDs. Please let me know what I can do. Thank you.
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The Skeptic
post Apr 9 2007, 02:03 AM
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Seems that you can quite easilly increase the performance of the laptop without repair or format.

1: Use doc's link.

2: Consider doubling your ram to 512 MB. The ram in your computer is very small and is choked-up with only 33 MB available free space.
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- anoop1234   How to install XP pro on an XP home laptop   Apr 8 2007, 01:43 PM
- - 1101doc   XP Pro is not that much different from Home. It d...   Apr 8 2007, 02:04 PM
- - anoop1234   I have the pro CD through my roommate and I have t...   Apr 8 2007, 02:21 PM
- - 1101doc   Not likely that you will be able to use a Home key...   Apr 8 2007, 02:31 PM
- - anoop1234   My laptop has been running very slow and its a bit...   Apr 8 2007, 02:57 PM
- - 123Runner   You may not use your friends XP pro CD and license...   Apr 8 2007, 03:10 PM
- - 1101doc   I don't know that you have such a partition. ...   Apr 8 2007, 03:19 PM
- - anoop1234   Here are the specs: It is a Packard Bell Easynot...   Apr 8 2007, 04:56 PM

 

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