How to Change Windows XP Home to Windows XP Professional

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Enable the features found in Windows XP Professional on your Windows XP Home Edition installation with this hack.

   It will allow you to turn your Windows XP Home CD into a Windows XP Professional CD.
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   Step 2: Copy the root directory and the i386 directory of the Windows XP CD to your hard drive.

   ,,,, This file is located on your Windows XP CD in the i386 folder.
   
   Regedit will prompt for a name to attach the hive to, "HOMEKEY" is the assumed value used in these steps (click OK to complete the Load Hive process. ,,,,,, Then use the CD to install Windows XP.
   
   Be sure to make the CD bootable.
   
   You can use the instructions here to help you do that.
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   Step 3: Extract the Boot sector of your Windows XP CD.

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   Step 4: Click START-->RUN-->REGEDIT

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   Step 5: Highlight HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

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   Step 6: Click FILE-->LOAD HIVE and select the Setupreg.hiv file.

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   Step 7: Locate the following registry key:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Homekey\ControlSet001\Services\setupdd

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   Step 8: Edit the DEFAULT key and change the following values to 00.

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   Step 9: 01 to 00 and 02 to 00

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    Step 10: Change the name to the value HOMEKEY to anything.

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    Step 11: Highlight HOMEKEY and select FILE-->UNLOAD HIVE

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    Step 12: You can now burn the data on your hard drive to a CD.

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