Changing NT server machines to XP pro

Maybe


"jholzemer" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > wrote in
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| I found several user machines that are running NT server
but not acting as servers. I want to convert these to XP
pro. Will XP pro upgrade these machines OK?

You will have to do clean installs. You cannot upgrade from a server version
to a workstation version.

jholzemer wrote:
> I found several user machines that are running NT server but not
> acting as servers. I want to convert these to XP pro. Will XP pro
> upgrade these machines OK?

The only way to install Windows XP Professional on a computer running
a server version of NT is to perform a "clean install".

Clean Install Windows XP
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

Windows XP Supported Upgrade Paths
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb ;en-us;292607&Product=winxp

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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"jholzemer" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > wrote in message:

|I found several user machines that are running NT server but not acting as servers. I want to convert these
to XP pro. Will XP pro upgrade these machines OK?

Greetings --

No. One cannot "upgrade" from a server OS to a workstation OS.
You may be able to perform clean installations of WinXP onto these
machines, provided that they meet WinXP's hardware requires and the
manufacturers provide WinXP-specific device drivers for the computers'
components.

Bruce Chambers


You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. -- RAH


"jholzemer" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > wrote in message
>I found several user machines that are running NT server but not
>acting as servers. I want to convert these to XP pro. Will XP pro
>upgrade these machines OK?