Help changing versions of XP

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Fenris_Ulf

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I have a friend who has been running the cracked edition of XP Pro Corp that he bought overseas and now wants to go legit. He asked me if there was any way to keep his settings, programs, games, etc. intact without having to do a fresh install and wiping his drive. Since all my copies are legit and I've never used the Corp edition (except at work where all I am is a lowly user), I don't know how or if it's possible to go from the corporate to the regular Pro or Home. Any advice you can give me to help him out would be greatly appreciated.
 
The answer is no, because it would involve a complete re-install of the OS. There's no way to stick in an XP Home disc, for example, and "upgrade" over what's already there. The only way to keep his system intact would be to buy a corporate license...but that's WAY out of the budget for an individual user.

The benefit of doing all of this is that he can have a nice clean fresh system when he's done, and legal as well.
 
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