Own XP Home and Want Pro? Read this!!

If you have XP home, you can litterally alter your XP home disk to become XP Pro, using your XP home Key!

I don't endorse the breaking of ELUAs, so i have not tried this yet... if you want to, go ahead, but im not to be held responsable for what you do!

1 - Copy the entire WindowsXP CD to your hard drive
2. Extract the Bootsector of your WindowsXP CD
3. Change 2 Bytes in i386\Setupreg.hiv by doing this :
a) Open Regedit
b) Highlight HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
c) Menu: File -> Load Structure -> i386\Setupreg.hiv
d) Assign an arbitrary name to the imported structure e.g. “Homekey”
e) Goto HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Homekey\ControlSet001\Services\setupdd
f) edit the binary key “default” and change “01” to “00” and “02” to
“00”
g) Highlight “Homekey” and select menu: File -> unload structure
4. Burn your new XP Pro CD
5. Install WindowsXP as usual. Your XP Home Key will work.

YOU CAN NOT install SP2 on this... not sure why... but oh well!

I found this at: http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/softw...pro-105486.php

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Still trying to work around this, ya mean M$ ship all the extras of pro with the Home cd's anyway??

yessir... if you look at the size of the CDs:

XP Pro: 487Mb
XP Home: 518Mb

So, XP pro doesn't contain Home, but Home does Pro

Intersting says Mark.

that's crazy. here's a noob question...any recognizable benefit to go pro? i'm not a power user.

Originally Posted by n1ckel5

that's crazy. here's a noob question...any recognizable benefit to go pro? i'm not a power user.

I am kind of asking the same question rather than replying to yours Nic, my question was: since service pack 2 came out, is there any real difference between home and pro? i kinda thought SP2 made them both identical to each other, with the exception of Pro being a lot more $$$, am I right or wrong?

From what i've noticed Pro and Home are the same after SP2 is installed, but Pro has some extra security realated stuffs with it.

doesn't sound like it's worth the effort then. too much work to not have a cool payoff!

True, I've gone corporate edition these days though

corporate... any good, whats different? never used it before...

No difference from pro, only no activation

Originally Posted by Robb4248

corporate... any good, whats different? never used it before...

Differences are IIS and you can connect to a domain with Pro. With home you can only connect to a Workgroup.

I just found that out recenlty myself