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Brenda

I have xp office installed and started with home xp,
now I would like the home edition put back in. When trying
to install, I get,"not a supported upgrade path."
Help, please.
 
Hello
You can only upgrade not downgrade.
In order to put XP Home on you will have to delete the XP Pro.
In doing that you will lose all information on your hard drive, so you will
need to backup everything you need. Then do a clean install.
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/cleanxp.htm

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Hope This Helps
Haus
Not a MS-MVP
Not a MVP
Not nothing, just a good ole boy.
 
You can't upgrade with a downgrade! You have to wipe the hard drive
partition and install the Home edition "clean".

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Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
 
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Brenda said:
I have xp office installed and started with home xp,
now I would like the home edition put back in. When trying
to install, I get,"not a supported upgrade path."
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That's correct. Downgrades are not supported. Your only choice is
to clean install Home.

But why do you want to do this? Do you realize that Home is a
subset of Professional? The two are identical except that there
are a few extra features in Professional, mostly related to
networking and security. If you don't use those extra features,
there's no difference. There's nothing in Home that isn't also in
Professional, and no advantage to doing this.
 
I have xp office installed and started with home xp,
now I would like the home edition put back in. When trying
to install, I get,"not a supported upgrade path."
Help, please.
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I'm confused. Office XP is a suite of office applications. Windows XP Home
is an operating system. Did you install Office XP or Windows XP Pro? If you
installed Office, you still have XP Home.

If you installed Windows XP Pro, then others here have already answered
that question.
 
Brenda cogitated deeply and scribbled thusly:
I have xp office installed and started with home xp,
now I would like the home edition put back in. When trying
to install, I get,"not a supported upgrade path."
Help, please.
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"XP Office" (do you mean "Office XP") is an application suite, NOT an
Operating System. Windows XP Home Edition is an Operating System. What
EXACTLY are you trying to do?
 
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