Has anyone successully updated XP Home to XP Pro?

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Fri Sep 13, 2002 6:15 pm

Just curious. I haven't tried it yet myself.

poop · Post by **poop** » Sat Sep 14, 2002 3:55 pm

Also curious... Why would you want to? I mean, is it really worth it for the benefits?

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sat Sep 14, 2002 4:27 pm

Well I could forsee a situation where a client buys a system with XP Home but he wants to use it on a LAN with a Domain server. XP Home won't do that (actually you can hack XP Home to do it if you have to).

Another issue would be if you want more sophisticated control of your user accounts. In XP Home all users are administrators.

poop · Post by **poop** » Sun Sep 15, 2002 7:38 am

Ahh, I see.

My guess is that it is probably as problematic as any Windows upgrade. That is, sometimes you're lucky, sometimes you have problems. I personally don't know of anyone trying it.

Now that you mention it, my PC at work as XP Home on it, which is weird. I cannot connect to the domain. Seeing as how I do all my coding on a sun server, it's not too much of a hassle. Though I can see a desire to upgrade.

two slow · Post by **two slow** » Mon Sep 16, 2002 12:34 am

All users are administrators on XP home? I could have swore I set up three accounts on my daughters computer and hers was as a guest. I'll have to look when I get home today. I thought that you had to have two administrators but the rest could be guest's.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Mon Sep 16, 2002 6:24 am

No matter how it's configured, all users on an XP Home system have Administrator priveleges on a network - in the local box they may have restrictions.

two slow · Post by **two slow** » Mon Sep 16, 2002 9:45 am

I think I'll leave hers off the network. I didn't know about that she would have admin privileges on a lan.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Mon Sep 16, 2002 2:48 pm

I don't think it would be an issue on a peer to peer network - not sure. Frankly, haven't used XP Home much on a network. I'm getting this info second hand from an XP tech site.

In a peer to peer environment it probably wouldn't be a big deal - just assign permissions to shared resources based on users (if she doesn't have specific permission, she can't access it).