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| Can you downgrade from XP Professional to XP Home? |
| Friday, May 4, 2007 |
No.
You can go the other way by just buying Professional and running the disk and answering the questions, but it’s not that easy to upgrade downwards!
But why would you want to?
Thanks to the Windows Genuine Advantage program a lot of people are finding that they have “counterfeit” Windows XP Professional on their PCs (the cowboys used corporate CDs to install the OS, hence they are mainly the Professional version). And the cheapest way to get legal is to buy an OEM copy of XP Home.
The way to do it is to use the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard to get all your stuff off the PC onto a portable disk, then install Home (wiping your disk in the process), and then put your stuff back using the F&STW again. And then reinstall all of your applications of course.
If your Windows is dodgy the chances are that your Office is to, so why not take the opportunity to try OpenOffice.org instead? It works for me.
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How to stop an application being listed in the “recently used programs” above the Start button.
This requires a Registry edit, so the usual warnings apply.
IF YOU ARE NOT CONFIDENT TO EDIT THE REGISTRY, DON’T TRY. MAKING A MISTAKE CAN WRECK YOUR WINDOWS SETUP. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
Start, Run, type: regedit
Navigate to: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications
Find the name of the application’s program in the list, left click it to select it then right click in the right hand pane.
New will come up. Left click String Value and change the key’s name from New Value #1 to NoStartPage
Close the Registry editor and then reboot the PC to check that the entry has been deleted.Labels: PC Tips N Tricks and Tweaks |
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