XP Pro Upgrade

I am running XP Home with SP2. I want to upgrade to XP Pro. Will I have to reinstall SP2 and will my software accept this upgrade without any troubles? I use Pro at work and don't see major differences between Pro or Home. Just some security and other minor differences. If this is going to be more trouble than it's worth I want to know.
Thanks: Dennis

 

Well worth the effort IMO.

Your best bet is to prepare an XP-pro CD with SP2 slipstreamed into it and do the upgrade with that.

 

Thanks Newt

I have the XP Pro boxed version cd (original). I also have the SP2 FULL version cd but don't know how to slipstream it. Is it difficult? How do I do it? I tried to run the XP Pro cd but it says the version I have is newer than the cd and it won't install. What do I do?

 

http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/winxp-sp2-bootcd.html will walk you thru setting up the XP-SP2 as an installable product and I imagine XP-home will allow the upgrade then.

If not, uninstall SP2 from XP-home and then load the Pro-SP2 one.

 

Update

I finally got the ugrade finished. I used a program called "AutoStreamer ". Great little tool for slipstreaming. The slipstream and the upgrade went flawlessly. No trouble at all.

Thanks: Dennis

 

Dennis,
where can i get the program "AutoStreamer "?
Mark

 

http://www.autopatcher.com/autostreamer.html

 

Zander,
the link download page doesn't work...do you have another or can you email it to me?
thanks,
mark

 

Here ya go. I never tried the link on the other sight. I tried it now and see it doesn't work for me either. Sorry. This one works for me.

http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Autostreamer-Download-13918.html

 

Zander,
thanks, i went to the autopathcher site and the reason the link didn't work was because it was for the older version...then i went to the forums page and found a working link for the current ver.
mark

 

The current

version is 1.0.33. I got it off a link from Neowin. Do a google search for "slipstreamxpsp" and you will find all sorts of links there. This is a nifty utility.

Good luck: Dennis