Please help me to upgrade my Windos XP laptop

Just got a Toshiba Laptop with Windows XP Home edition on it. I would like to upgrade the OS to Windows XP Professional Upgrade CD (in order to keep all my current settings) Please kindly give me a quick tutorial and let me know what steps I have to thorugh, in order to install the Windows XP Professional Upgrade o ...

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Just got a Toshiba Laptop with Windows XP Home edition on it. I would like to upgrade the OS to Windows XP Professional Upgrade CD (in order to keep all my current settings)
 
Please kindly give me a quick tutorial and let me know what steps I have to thorugh, in order to install the Windows XP Professional Upgrade on the top of my current OS, without re-install all the apps and keep all my settings.
 
Please kindly advise what should I do ?
 
Thank you so much for your help in advance.

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Insert Windows XP PRo disk and run setup from within Windows HOME.
 
CHoose Upgrade, and it will keep all your settings

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U mean microsoft actually made something easy that works..
 


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Yeah... When XP beta was initially released, pro wasn't on the upgrade track, then when xp went gold, they allowed the upgrade... Interesting.