how do I upgrade from XP Home to XP Pro

I've just bought a new PC with XP Home on it. I didn't
realise that it didn't come with a personal web server
(as Win 98 did) and apparently I have to get XP Pro. How
do I do it? How much will it cost? What software do I
need, etc?

Any help greatly appreciated

Cheers

Rich

You need to buy the WinXP Pro upgrade CD - I think it's usually under $200.
I don't use XP Home so I don't know about IIS in it....but there are other
webservers you can probably use if you wish. If you're planning on hosting a
publicly-accessible website on your home computer, though, I advise against
it.

Richard wrote:
> I've just bought a new PC with XP Home on it. I didn't
> realise that it didn't come with a personal web server
> (as Win 98 did) and apparently I have to get XP Pro. How
> do I do it? How much will it cost? What software do I
> need, etc?
>
> Any help greatly appreciated
>
> Cheers
>
> Rich

If you just want to run a web serve then look at Apache...its cheaper than upgrading to XP Pro...:-)

http://www.apache.org/

http://nagoya.apache.org/mirror/http...s/win32/#xpbug

http://nagoya.apache.org/mirror/httpd/binaries/win32/

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"Richard" <vr@clubparadiso.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:189b001c44b20$8b50c6e0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> I've just bought a new PC with XP Home on it. I didn't
> realise that it didn't come with a personal web server
> (as Win 98 did) and apparently I have to get XP Pro. How
> do I do it? How much will it cost? What software do I
> need, etc?
>
> Any help greatly appreciated
>
> Cheers
>
> Rich


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