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Free Upgrade From XP Home to XP Pro Lite

Posted by Zonk on from the think-these-things-through dept.

Novus writes "The Register reports that many of the features of Windows XP Pro, such as Remote Desktop and user management, can be enabled in Windows XP Home simply by changing two bytes in an installation data file. Another explanation can be found here."

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  1. Why not just download XP Pro, its just as illegal? by Novanix · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you are so bent on having the pro features and are willing to copy all the files off the CD, hack it, and then re-burn it (not to mention making sure not to screw up the bootable ability of the CD), why not just download Windows XP Pro? Both are illegal(take a look at the EULA), and downloading is easier and will still allow you to upgrade to SP2.

  2. Re:Why not just download XP Pro, its just as illeg by ahdeoz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hidden conditions are illegal in a contract, as are unnegotiable terms, changing terms, terms that violated enunicated rights, and just about everything else in an EULA. Hence, an EULA is not a legal contract.

  3. Re:Two things. by nxtw · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I just integrate SP2 into the install disc; problem solved.

    VNC is far better? *cough* RDP has a ton of features missing in VNC, such as:

    • Sound support
    • Automatic color depth and resolution changing support
    • Remote printer/serial port access
    • Client file access
    Remote Desktop is also much speedier. Even with the latest, greatest, fastest version of VNC, Remote Desktop is still much more responsive. On Windows XP, you can even use a certain file from an old Service Pack 2 beta and support multiple remote users on the same machine.

    and the eaiest way I've found to avoid getting "crap" is to not run as administrator. *poof*, no more problems. I'm surprised more people haven't figured that out yet.