help appreciated: upgrading from xp home to pro

[ainstushar]

i have xp home with me. i want to upgrade to pro. i have programs like office 2003 and others.

now the problem is if i upgrade to pro. will i still have all the registry settings that i had before installing. b/c my brother uses my computer everyday for word processing, i wish that all the documents and "setting" will remain.

is that possible? the only reason that i want to do this b/c of iis and odbc. is there any other way just to install iis from pro cd without installing the entire os?


help appreciated

 

[Osiris]

do an upgrade and not a new instal and everything will remain the same

 

[ainstushar]

i can't upgrade it, i have sp2, when i insert pro cd, it tells me that the version on my pc is already newer than the one on the cd.

I tried to boot up and it tells me that installing many OS in one partition may cause some trouble.

There is no such option as upgrade to xp pro.

help appreciated!!

 

[Osiris]

well then you cant upgrade, you will need to do a clean install

 

[ainstushar]

Okay, is there any other way to run iis on XP home?

since i dont want to wipe my HD clean, is there any way?

 

[brady]

Can you uninstall SP2 from your machine ?
e: Add/Remove Programs

 

[EricB]

slipstream sp2 on your xp pro cd with autostreamer

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=223562

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancements/Windows-XP-SP2-RTM.shtml

 

[EricB]

is that possible? the only reason that i want to do this b/c of iis and odbc. is there any other way just to install iis from pro cd without installing the entire os?

put the cd in and try it. pick install additional windows components

 

[talldude123]

i would slipstream to sp2..

or "get" another copy of pro sp2

 

[ainstushar]

what is slimstrem?