A hack to upgrade without, ahem, upgrading.
Own Microsoft Windows XP Home but would like to own Windows XP Pro? Gizmodo is running a simple hack that apparently upgrades the system inadvertently.
No point duplicating it. Read it at Gizmodo.
YMMV, and of course, I do not endorse bootlegging. Enjoy 
This post is tagged Microsoft, system, Tips/Tricks, Windows, XP
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windows xp pro, will allow me to enter my log on password and then it will start the proccess to log on and immediately log off and go back to ask for my password !again
Please Help
thank you , Alex
Alex, I’m not sure how that is relevant here but you may wish to take a look at this thread.
Hi,
I am tryoin to re install windows xp, but when iI put the cd and start the installation it tells me that it can not continue since I have a newer version of windows Xp, I have tried doin it from the boo menu and it will not allow me either it keeps f1 or f2 and thats it f1 for retry and f2 for setup, I don’t know what else to do, i am truing to do this since I have acquired the desktop hijack and I think instead of going thorugh all this process re installing windowx would be a safe bet since I have saved all my important information, any help is greatly appreciated, should I create bootable floppies, and if I do how do I create them?
Once again than you for your support and cooperation in this issue.
Sincerely, Mariae
My processor and mother board crashed. I bought a new case,motherboard & intel processor (had athalon before). Added my drives and tried to start system and got an activate windows xp window but it would not let me reactivate. I contacted microsoft who said my system has a problem and i had to contact emachines about the problem. (they had restore disks but I never had a copy of xp other than on the restore disks) Since i no longer have an emachine computer I don’t know where to go. You can tranfer the
operating system from one computer to another without having to buy it again I hope.
well my other computer is not working and i want to use my other tower that i have so i try to install window xp but i only have some of the 25 key code can you help me this is part of the code fdkrdh 78t8g 7whhv i cant see three - - - dj rbh8q please help me
when starting win XP pro the log on comes up and i never had this happen before. I dont want to log on or have a pass word. Never did before. Is there a way to get rid of or bypass this log on procedure. Help
Alan, download TweakUI from the Microsoft site - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx - and enable the option for Autologin. If you don’t want the password to show up after your screensaver comes on, you can disable the password from your screensaver settings (right click on Desktop — > Properties — > Screensaver).
i would like to know how to install xp pro with crack gen on a machine leaving out all those activation to later part. Thanks
I HAVE A FRIEND THAT HAS A OLD COMPUTER AND SHE CANNOT GET ON LINE UNTIL SHE INSTALLS WINDOWS 98 2nd EDITION. HOW DOES SHE GET THIS DISC BEING AS SHE CAN’T GET ONLINE WITHOUT IT? ANYONE?
I bought a computer from a garage sale but it says the xp pro is counterfeit anyone no how I can fix it free?
Have just built a new computer,install windows xp Home & a few other drivers to get it up & runing, but it was runing very slowly. So formated c: to reinstall xp but now i get to EULA (End user Licence Agreement) it say Press F8 to accept , but it wont let me ???
Ok, I got a problem I have clone my new hard drive from the old one and replace it but I want to take the old one and put it to another comp for my daughter cause the other one don’t have one. But it freezes up when I try to start it. I see the logo of xp but it start to reboot again. It;s the real xp home. Is there a way to go around that? Oh and another thing I lost my cd please help me.
i have lost my windows xp home disc and product key how can i reboot my comp if i have no disc or key is there any way i can use someone elses dixsc and key ?? if not does anyone know where and how much i can get a genuine disc and key for …..
it has come to the time i need to format my computer i have a albacomp pc and i have the cd they have surplyed me but have lost the cd key to it how do i get the key from the xp disk it is windows xp home with SP2 if any one can help pleaseeee pleaseeeee email me i will be truly greatfull
I completly lost operating system. i need to know how can i restore system without havng the original cd. i have burned a copy of win 98se and win98 it doesnt take it.. when i boot up the computer it goes to a black screen with missing operating system.. please help…
Can I tranfer my windows Xp to my new PC without having to by a new OS?
I mean, is it possible to cancel the validation on the old PC and use it on my new PC?
I do not need to use the old PC any more . Thanks.
Hi My name is tyler …
I Want to reinstall xp pro but i lost my product key can any one help please…. email me at tyler.l@quickclic.net if you can
please no spam or junk thank you
** IM RUNNING WINDOWS 2000 PRO
Not sure if this is the right spot or not, but it’s as closwe as I can find.
Our network here is strictly XP Pro for security reasons. One of our vendor’s machines crashed, and they bought a new one. I tried putting their old hard drive (with all their special programs and mainframe interfaces on it) on the new machine and all it does is reboot after coming up to the “Start Windows Normally” screen. The drive works in another machine OK, but we can’t let them use our machines. OK so I tried to do a fresh install of a NEW XP Pro over their new HD OS, which is Windows XP MEDIA. It won’t take at all. My question is: Is it possible to install XP Pro over XP MEDIA version. I really don’t want to do a disk wipe and install because I won’t have any way to install all the onboard drivers that comes with their machine.
Hello big staff, i have HP Centrino laptop with windows xp home edition on it and have tried to format the drive and install new windows xp professional BUT after the files are copied it comes back to tell me that i dont have access to the HARD DISK.
I would be much grateful if anyone with best approach could help me with my laptop
please how do i open regedit ,windows says it’s been locked by an
administrator but i am useing the administrator. And how to open msconfig with a similar error. One mire problem I have with windows or pc is how to clear a network or reset it without reinstalling the os.
We are trying to reformat one of our XP Professional PC’s , due to our son not putting the virus protection on it as we had sent to him, this pc is hosed, anyway, we cannot get XP to work, it is giving us bad memory errors and therefore it won’t let us to do the NTFS any ideas on how to get this accomplished.
Hi i had a problem i went out bot windows xp and installed it said you have errors ut it works if i push F1 to continue what cause that is the bios error has something set rong. Hey all i had to hit delete to go to bois and set boot floopy cd first and put windows xp cd and deleted the partion and reformatted hard drive with xp cd and installed it. If you buy a computer off someone has a password on it in the bois remove the battery that you con go in to bois anything else that have leave you message people love to know your problems to help you solve it.
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