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[bradders]

I have XP home and want to upgrade to XP Pro - do I just chyck the disc in and follow instructions?

Cant seem to find a way to back up (other than copy files to a cd) like ME used to, so what if it all goes wrong? WIll I lose my drivers?

Ta

[TP]

You shouldn't lose any device drivers Paul as it's 'Plug and Pray'

Let me check the upgrade paths as I'm not sure this is a vaild upgrade path and therefore may overwrite your application installs.

Back in a mo ...

It's a real nerd-fest in here this morning!

[JPM]

Why do you want to go to pro? the differences are minimal, the main one being you can add pro to a domain, home you cannot

[TP]

That's a good question - what are you up to Paul?

BTW - it is a valid upgrade path so you should get an option to upgrade when you boot off the XP Pro CD. They are usually fairly intuitive install wizards so I don't really remember what goes on, I just read it the questions and toss a coin.

[BDG]

Originally posted by TP

It's a real nerd-fest in here this morning!

Not for me it isn't WAY over my head all of this stuff.

Anyone want to buy some of our old PC's 1 owner 286 & 386's even a 486 if you're lucky. May even have a BBC micro somewhere

[JPM]

Originally posted by BDG

Not for me it isn't WAY over my head all of this stuff.

Anyone want to buy some of our old PC's 1 owner 286 & 386's even a 486 if you're lucky. May even have a BBC micro somewhere

I took 2 compaq deskpro's (PII's) down to the tip at the w/end....

[BDG]

Originally posted by JPM

I took 2 compaq deskpro's (PII's) down to the tip at the w/end....

Flash git 999R rider

[JPM]

Oi!

Keeps kids away ......apparently

[bradders]

not really looked too much at the difference, just thought it may give more bells and whistles and it aint cost me owt! Good idea or not?

[TP]

Originally posted by bradders
not really looked too much at the difference, just thought it may give more bells and whistles and it aint cost me owt! Good idea or not?

Well, I don't know the definitive list of benefits. I know it gives you more flexibility with networking but you don't need those. Memory management?

Not sure, let me go back to technet ...

I would say though, that you are inviting a potential risk of losing stuff for not a lot of gain in my view. Unless you can mitigate that risk (backups? move stuff to anther drive etc?) then I would have to want one of the new features to do it.

Let me look up this list.