A OS related Question

[Eagle101]

Hello people of TGL! well this is a simple question i have a laptop operating XP Home Edition, i am wondering if i upgrade to XP Professional will my games list music, files, pics etc disappear or will they remain i know its a foolish question but hey i don't know the answer! :salute:

[Oli]

Nothing should be lost. It should just be a simple process of putting a disc in and letting the computer update the OS.

Everything will be there afterwards as i'm sure other people will say also.

[THEONEANDONLY]

If you do it the right way Yea nothing will be lost :)
But in the case of me WHEN I PRESSED THE WRONG NUMBER !!!!!

[Eagle101]

oh cheers for the reply guys i rly appreciate this oh and its not me thats doing the update i am going to take it to a workshop they'll do it for me. I dont rely on myself and doings loL!

[ham_411]

if your worried theres a chance you'll lose your stuff, why dont you do a backup of important files?
oh and you probabaly dont want to hear this but oh well, why are you upgrading from 1 XP to another, why not go forwards to Vista and not sideways?

[Minicoop503]

if your worried theres a chance you'll lose your stuff, why dont you do a backup of important files?
oh and you probabaly dont want to hear this but oh well, why are you upgrading from 1 XP to another, why not go forwards to Vista and not sideways?

Because going sideways is better than going down...

[signa]

I would backup everything important.

also why are you upgrading from home to pro if I may ask?

[Wizrdwarts]

Because going sideways is better than going down...

QFT! And backup you data anyways, best to do that even if you're not doing anything big.

[reynolddog]

Vista rocks.....

[Eagle101]

Vista is a NO GO for me lolz until vista is on its feet and ready for gaming ill take it, i currently play CoD4, BF2, CSS, Insurgency, CoH and many otherz so i rly don't wanna gamble with my laptop with vista i will wait i just wanna got to PRO since i have seen it much more better than home i saw MoH Airborne play on Pro but Home cant play it. thnx for the extra reps and advice guys!

if any1 is wondering how Home is not playing MOH AB, it BSOD's. oh and just extra info, i use this laptop for uni while i am away i mainly game on my desktop show in my sig that is also waiting for vista to be gaming compatible.

oh and i will back up my files i have a lot of custom modified skins that i got from FPS Banana and a couple of BF2 mods as well as HL2 mods (i love mods lOL) and a few thousand Heavy metal, Celtic rock, Hardcore punk songs that i gotta back up hehehe

[peeth]

I would just like to point out that i have had absolutely no problems with gaming in vista.

[signa]

Vista is a NO GO for me lolz until vista is on its feet and ready for gaming ill take it, i currently play CoD4, BF2, CSS, Insurgency, CoH and many otherz so i rly don't wanna gamble with my laptop with vista i will wait i just wanna got to PRO since i have seen it much more better than home i saw MoH Airborne play on Pro but Home cant play it. thnx for the extra reps and advice guys!...

that not right. home and pro are the same OS with pro having a few more features like 'remote desktop server', QOS, and some advanced network features and security. Home sounds like a cheaper, less performing OS, but it performs the same as pro. If your having problems with home I would try a reinstall first before spending $$ for pro.

[Flt. Sgt. Powderhound]

Home can play MOH: Airborne- any game company would be shooting themselves in the foot if they released a game for home users (IE: Gamers) that didn't run on XP: Home- the OS that many of them will be using.

[Eagle101]

impl it works for some people mate every1 has a different opinion for me its to wait but its good to hear ur having a good experience with vista! ho and thnx for the input signa but it looks like to me that all i want is to go to PRO oh and its only costing me 5Pounds and i have backed up all imp files incase something goes wrong. Thnx again for the reps.