IT upgrade question...
 

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

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

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!

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

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.

:D

Not for me it isn't:puzzled: 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....

Flash git 999R rider:frog:

Oi!

Keeps kids away ......apparently :rolleye:

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.