{"id":104,"date":"2011-03-03T14:06:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T13:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nova.xtreem.se\/?p=104"},"modified":"2011-03-03T16:15:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T15:15:25","slug":"convert-windows-xp-home-to-windows-xp-professional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.xtreem.se\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"Convert Windows XP Home to Windows XP Professional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To convert and upgrade Windows XP Home to Windows XP Professional, follow procedure below.<br \/>\n1. Open Registry Editor (regedit).<br \/>\n2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\/SYSTEM\/ControlSet00X\/Control\/ProductOptions, where ControlSet00X is the one with the highest number.<br \/>\n3. Delete the ProductSuite registry key.<br \/>\n4. Then, create a new DWORD value and named it as Brand.<br \/>\n5. Set the \u201cBrand\u201d value data as 0.<br \/>\n6. Reboot the system.<br \/>\n7. On boot up after the BIOS screen, press F8 to display Windows XP Startup Menu.<br \/>\n8. Choose Last Known Good Configuration (LNG) and hit Enter.<br \/>\nWindows XP will start up as usual. After logging into the desktop, check the system properties to verify that it\u2019s now Windows XP Professional.<\/p>\n<p>To get RDP to work from here.<\/p>\n<p>Then download and install <a title=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/1\/1\/f\/11f7dd10-272d-4cd2-896f-9ce67f3e0240\/devcon.exe\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/1\/1\/f\/11f7dd10-272d-4cd2-896f-9ce67f3e0240\/devcon.exe\">DevCon<\/a>,  a command-line utility functions as an alternative to Device Manager.  devcon.exe is a self-extractor executable. Execute devcon.exe and choose  a folder to unpack the content. devcon.exe will create two folders  inside the selected path &#8211; i386 and ia64.<\/p>\n<p>Download: http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/1\/1\/f\/11f7dd10-272d-4cd2-896f-9ce67f3e0240\/devcon.exe<\/p>\n<p>Open a command prompt window (Cmd), and the change directory into the i386 folder extracted by DevCon.<\/p>\n<p>Then run the following command to reinstall rdpdr driver:\u00a0 devcon.exe -r install %windir%\\inf\\machine.inf root\\rdpdr<\/p>\n<p>Restart the computer after running the command.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Download and run the <a title=\"http:\/\/www.davidbergan.com\/enable tsxp.bat\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbergan.com\/enable_tsxp.bat\">enable_tsxp.bat<\/a> batch script which will create a .reg file to merge the required Terminal Services values to registry and bootlog<\/p>\n<p>Reboot after patching the registry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Winlogon<br \/>\nChange the value data for \u201cAutoAdminLogin\u201d from \u201c1\u2033 to \u201c0\u2033.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To convert and upgrade Windows XP Home to Windows XP Professional, follow procedure below. 1. Open Registry Editor (regedit). 2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\/SYSTEM\/ControlSet00X\/Control\/ProductOptions, where ControlSet00X is the one with the highest number. 3. Delete the ProductSuite registry key. 4. Then, create a new DWORD value and named it as Brand. 5. Set the \u201cBrand\u201d value [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xtreem.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xtreem.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xtreem.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xtreem.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xtreem.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.xtreem.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"http:\/\/www.xtreem.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xtreem.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xtreem.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xtreem.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}