Dec 10, 2003 06:21 pm Uuuuu, Office won't overwrite XP Home. XP Home is an operating system, XP Office is a program that runs in the operating system.
Overwrite XP Home with Office
Posted on Dec 10, 2003 06:00 pm
Bruno
The Quiet Minded
Member Since: Jan 01, 2003
Can I overwrite XP home with XP office without losing my current configuration and installed stuff?
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Dec 10, 2003 06:21 pm Uuuuu, Office won't overwrite XP Home. XP Home is an operating system, XP Office is a program that runs in the operating system.
Dec 11, 2003 12:01 pm hmm you must mean xp pro?when I did it, I did a clean install.Take this op to backup all you have and do a clean install.you'll be glad you did.Your os will run smoother then if you did an upgrade,and you'll have everything backed up.you dont have to load all that stuff you thought was gonna rule and didnt,and all those demos that left keys in your reg will be gone,you can try them another 10 days!
Dec 11, 2003 12:12 pm What would be the point of upgrading from home to pro unless you plan on starting a dual-processor system...the differences are not that great...unless I am forgetting something...
Dec 11, 2003 12:33 pm you forgot the psychological value of working with a "pro" OS instead of one designed for "home" use.
Dec 11, 2003 01:53 pm I just want to know if I am going to loose my configs and installed programas if I upgrade
Dec 11, 2003 01:54 pm prolly not...won't really gain you anything either...
I agree with the above statement tho "upgrading" existing OS installs is never good, it's always best to just start over and install clean.
Dec 11, 2003 02:20 pm 'Pro' is inherently more stable than 'Home'. It's almost equivalent to the old NT Workstation vs. Windows 98.
W.
Dec 11, 2003 02:25 pm Not even close to equivilent. Both are NTFS systems natively (unless my memory is wrong) and very stable when on NTFS. I have worked on both home and pro and have seen no glaring instability problems with Home at all. To compare XP Home to Windows 98 is totally misleading.
...In my opinion...
However, if memory serves you are also a very anti-microsoft guy in the first place :-)
I have no technical data to back up what I am saying, but I have worked with both and don't see any real serious differences at all...at least not enuf to warrant the expense of upgrading if you already own Home.
Dec 11, 2003 08:57 pm I'm just a technician that works with 40-60 different machines daily...
If I see XP Home on a machine, and hear bitching about instability, I instantly know why...
(Oh yeah, and yes, I hate MS, and think that XP Home shouldn't have even been made an option...)
W.
Dec 11, 2003 11:07 pm I'd agree XP Home is slightly less stable than XP Pro and Win2k Pro in my experience, not because it has any major differences from the Pro version, but parts of Home were optimized to provide better gaming performance and the general castrating they did to it came at the expense of some reliability. But it in no way shaped or form is related to win9x, it's 10 times the OS that 9x ever was.
My biggest beef with Home is the loss of finer control over the file permissions, security, inability to join a domain among other things. Why MS didn't take the oportunity to only have to support 1 solid OS when they finally put out a good stable OS seems stupid to me.
Dan
Dec 12, 2003 04:43 am OK, like I said, I have no technical data, just experience, and from working with both I didn't see the difference. I haven't done any "technician" type work outside of my own home since therelease of Windows 98...file permissions, security, networking with a domain...all stuff I can see why WASN'T in their home addition, it's meant for home use. It does seem silly, but the features that are NOT in there do make sense considering it's target audience.
Dec 12, 2003 06:43 am Oh ya, Oh ya. That's good ole Microslop! Make it apperently simple to the point of completely frustrating! That is one difference I see between the two. No expert here by the way; Home burried some of the peramaters that I need just a little deeper making it fun to change. Other than that per my limited exposure; Home on laptop and pro on desk, they are very similar in stability.
I agree with Db. Home seems to be directed at the housewife who wants to surf the local gossip on the net. Pro is more for her husband the exec power user who wants to surf the girlie sites.
Dec 12, 2003 06:48 am in my many many years of computer work- (started in '88) upgrades with microsoft products are eventually more problematic (thats not good spelling) than clean installs . Here's the reason- if youve got some stablity issues now its usally because some files, spyware, virus, coruption has occured. so if u upgrade, the new os tries its best to save EVERYTHING and bring it in. this includes registry problems, ghosts of drivers hanging around for no reason, old dll's, and the stuff i mentioned above. your best bet, to have a well oiled machine, is save the info you want- format and scandisk your harddrives and install an os. then patch up the os with the service packs and stuff, get the latest drivers for all of your hardware and install those, then cleanly install your programs again. also get spysweeper, and some norton, do maintence on your drives, and clean out your whole machine- get the dust out, make sure all your fans turn ect.
upgrading leaves problems- wipe it and start from scratch, dont be lazy with microsoft stuff. youll end up having the same glitches, minor problems, lockups if you upgrade. You dont even have to change your os to make one heck of an improvement if you just slick everything and reinstall your current os, then drivers, then programs. i know its time consuming but a few hours now prevents lockups on track 10 of your perfect song- which gets deleted and you go out and shoot someone cause your computer crashed...
Dec 12, 2003 08:07 am Always wondered about that Tony. Makes real good sense. I like the part about wiping, reinstalling current then upgrading. Sounds like a smooth way to avoid paying full new price.
Dec 12, 2003 03:31 pm 100% agreed on scratch install vs. upgrade.
BTW, my references to Win 98 vs NT workstation were simply in the stability issues, as my post clearly states. 98 was never, and could never be, as stable as NT workstation, just as XP Home is not, and could never be as stable as XP Pro.
W.
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