Re: XP Home went Professional

Right-click on My Computer & select Properties: What Windows version is
displayed in the resulting General tab (e.g., Windows XP Professional
Service Pack 1)?

Opinicus wrote:
> After last night's updates, my wife's Windows Homeinstallation says
> that it's "Professional" on bootup.
>
> No one has done any registry hacks.
>
> What gives? Has MS consolidated all of their XP support?

And Start | Run | WINVER | [OK]...?

Opinicus wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:24:29 -0400, "PA Bear [MS MVP]"
> <> wrote:
>
>>> After last night's updates, my wife's Windows Homeinstallation says
>>> that it's "Professional" on bootup.
>>> No one has done any registry hacks.
>>> What gives? Has MS consolidated all of their XP support?
>
>> Right-click on My Computer & select Properties: What Windows version is
>> displayed in the resulting General tab (e.g., Windows XP Professional
>> Service Pack 1)?
>
> It says:
>
> <quote>
> Microsoft Windows XP
> Professional
> Version 2002
> Service Pack 3
>
> XP_Pro
> Microsoft Windows XP
> 55895-and a bunch of other numbers
> </quote>
>
> Just to be sure I'm not losing my mind I checked the installation disk
> again and it's a bog-standard--and legal--"Windows XP Home Edition OEM
> Product". (I put the machine together for her myself.)
>
> I haven't had time to check but I'm wondering if the machine now can
> do all the things that XP Pro can but XP Home can't...
>
> Very strange.

It's a miracle! Contact the Vatican.

"Opinicus" <> wrote in message
news:...
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 02:16:52 -0400, "PA Bear [MS MVP]"
<> wrote:

> And Start | Run | WINVER | [OK]...?

It says (I'm translating from Turkish here)

<quote>
Microsoft (R) Windows
Version 5.1 (Build number 2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.100216-1514 : Service Pack
3)
Copyright (C) 2007 Microsoft Corporation

This product is licensed to the individual and organization below
under the terms of the End-User's Licence Agreement

XP_Pro
Microsoft Windows XP
</quote>

If I recall correctly the SFC utility doesn't work under XP Home, does
it? It works on the machine now.

Muchly weird.

Is no one else reporting this?


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I have the reverse problem. I used Windows Update and installed this month's
security updates today. I rebooted my XP Professional PC and it has come up
as XP Home Edition..... This PC was originally bought with XP Home and I
upgraded it a couple of years ago to XP Professional. I have checked the
properties as suggested in earlier post in this thread and they confirm that
it is now XP Home Edition.

How do I roll back to yesterdays' configuration? I could then install each
of the 9 updates individually and see which is causing the problem.

John

"john bornholt" <> wrote in message
news:90CB2E31-DFB2-41E5-A8CD-...
:I have the reverse problem. I used Windows Update and installed this
month's
: security updates today. I rebooted my XP Professional PC and it has come
up
: as XP Home Edition..... This PC was originally bought with XP Home and I
: upgraded it a couple of years ago to XP Professional. I have checked the
: properties as suggested in earlier post in this thread and they confirm
that
: it is now XP Home Edition.
:
: How do I roll back to yesterdays' configuration? I could then install
each
: of the 9 updates individually and see which is causing the problem.
:
: John

System restore?

On 2010-04-16 1:30 a.m., Tom Willett wrote:
> "john bornholt"<> wrote in message
> news:90CB2E31-DFB2-41E5-A8CD-...
> :I have the reverse problem. I used Windows Update and installed this
> month's
> : security updates today. I rebooted my XP Professional PC and it has come
> up
> : as XP Home Edition..... This PC was originally bought with XP Home and I
> : upgraded it a couple of years ago to XP Professional. I have checked the
> : properties as suggested in earlier post in this thread and they confirm
> that
> : it is now XP Home Edition.
> :
> : How do I roll back to yesterdays' configuration? I could then install
> each
> : of the 9 updates individually and see which is causing the problem.
> :
> : John
>
> System restore?

Only as a last resort. It is much safer to uninstall the updates, from the
Add/Remove Programs control panel.

Harry.

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Don't waste your time on Microsoft Updates because Computer Security and
Microsoft Products have never been compatible with each other.

Update sare designed to target certain people of certain religion and
these are updated evey month to assure us that the authorities are
looking after our security in the guise of computer security!! I have
not installed any updates since SP3 was released and I have no intention
of installing any. The only exception is Windows 7 where I have already
installed about 142 updates since I bought my system last November from
DELL! This will will change when I am satisfied that Win7 is no longer
a beta version or when SP1 is released!!

hth


john bornholt wrote:

>I have the reverse problem. I used Windows Update and installed this month's
>security updates today. I rebooted my XP Professional PC and it has come up
>as XP Home Edition..... This PC was originally bought with XP Home and I
>upgraded it a couple of years ago to XP Professional. I have checked the
>properties as suggested in earlier post in this thread and they confirm that
>it is now XP Home Edition.
>
>How do I roll back to yesterdays' configuration? I could then install each
>of the 9 updates individually and see which is causing the problem.
>
>John
>
>
>


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"LD55ZRA" <> wrote in message
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>
> Don't waste your time on Microsoft Updates because Computer Security and
> Microsoft Products have never been compatible with each other.
> Update sare designed to target certain people of certain religion and
> these are updated evey month to assure us that the authorities are looking
> after our security in the guise of computer security!! I have not
> installed any updates since SP3 was released and I have no intention of
> installing any. The only exception is Windows 7 where I have already
> installed about 142 updates since I bought my system last November from
> DELL! This will will change when I am satisfied that Win7 is no longer a
> beta version or when SP1 is released!!
>
> hth

You shouldn't waste your time posting. Intelligent thought and you have
never been compatible with each other.
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If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you."

To avoid confusion, please begin a new thread about your specific problem
and computer. State your IE version and full Windows version (e.g., WinXP
SP3; WinXP 64-bit SP2; Vista SP1; Vista 64-bit SP2; Win7; Win7 64-bit) in
your first post. Thank you.

john bornholt wrote:
> I have the reverse problem. I used Windows Update and installed this
> month's security updates today. I rebooted my XP Professional PC and it
> has
> come up as XP Home Edition..... This PC was originally bought with XP
> Home
> and I upgraded it a couple of years ago to XP Professional. I have
> checked
> the properties as suggested in earlier post in this thread and they
> confirm
> that it is now XP Home Edition.
>
> How do I roll back to yesterdays' configuration? I could then install
> each
> of the 9 updates individually and see which is causing the problem.
>
> John

What Shenan said.

Opinicus wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 02:16:52 -0400, "PA Bear [MS MVP]"
> <> wrote:
>
>> And Start | Run | WINVER | [OK]...?
>
> It says (I'm translating from Turkish here)
>
> <quote>
> Microsoft (R) Windows
> Version 5.1 (Build number 2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.100216-1514 : Service Pack
> 3)
> Copyright (C) 2007 Microsoft Corporation
>
> This product is licensed to the individual and organization below
> under the terms of the End-User's Licence Agreement
>
> XP_Pro
> Microsoft Windows XP
> </quote>
>
> If I recall correctly the SFC utility doesn't work under XP Home, does
> it? It works on the machine now.
>
> Muchly weird.
>
> Is no one else reporting this?