I am about to reformat my Hard-Drive at reinstall Windows. It's a Hewlett Packard machine that didn't come with the discs, but apparently you make a recovery disc or something??!!

Anyway, it's not that I am worried about.

We have it set at the moment with 2 user accounts. The main one that Beccy and I use and an additional one for Rosie. However, it takes forever to switch between the 2. It doesn't really seem to like being set-up this way. It might be that once I reinstall, that this may improve. However, I guess that Windows XP Pro is better equipped for User accounts?

If so, whats the cheapest/easiest way to upgrade from Home to Pro and in a way that I am not stuck for updates??!!

 

Pro is only really better for networking. Im sure home edition is fine for what you want.

The hard drive is probably partioned and you will have some kind of recovery/setup files on the other partion.

 

OK, thats great.

So is anyone else using XP Home with multiple user accounts successfully? When I switch users it sometimes takes several minutes to do it!!

As I said before, this might be because the hard-drive is in a bit of a mess. I now have 700gb of storage, so plan to set up a 50gb partition on the main 200gb drive for Windows and the programs etc and try and store all the data etc on the separate 500gb drive. Hopefully this will keep things ticking along nicely.

 

Think buying an upgrade version of XP Pro is a safest way, will cost you about £85-£90 for it, probably cheaper than that on eBay.

 

The pm i sent seems the cheapest option

 

LOL.

 

I run home with multiple user accounts and all is fine and dandy.

 

Get on MSN !!!!!

 

dan ive sorted him as much as i can, i think its probably the same as your gunna tell him "on msn"

 

PM'd with an exceptionaly cheap a legal solution..last time I brought XP pro licences I paid £25 a go which makes alternative thoughts pointless at that cost

 

like your choice of words

 

http://www.computerwire.com/industri...2-EAF995A0F3A4

http://www.out-law.com/page-6319

http://www.channelinsider.com/articl.../165182_1.aspx

there is a few companys now doing this, shop around and you can get some good prices on microsoft software

google is your friend

 

my g/f is in the same boat as you ..

pc needs a format as windows degrades all the time..hers is lagging real bad now even with new ram installed

shes got xp home the real deal keygen number but no burner on her pc..

so how can she make a recovery disc

any ideas

 

Install a cd or dvd writer, cheap as chips now and piss easy to put in

Or get an external usb one

 

From the 2nd link you gave...

 

Ill dig out a link tonight for the OS's - The corporate Pro editions of MS Operating Systems are being sold, I last used a company in Ireland for this