Tabtight professional, free when you need it, VPN service. How to Change Windows XP Home to Windows XP Professional 1. Steps. 1Enable the features found in Windows XP Professional on your Windows XP Home Edition installation with this hack. It will allow you to turn your Windows XP Home CD into a Windows XP Professional CD. Copy the root directory and the i. Windows XP CD to your hard drive. Extract the Boot sector of your Windows XP CD. Click START RUN REGEDIT. Cd Pro Windows Xp Home Edition' title='Cd Pro Windows Xp Home Edition' />Product Name Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 3 x86 CD English Retail. Data Preparer Microsoft Corporation,One Microsoft Way,Redmond Wa 98052,425. Highlight HKEYLOCALMACHINE. Click FILE LOAD HIVE and select the Setupreg. This file is located on your Windows XP CD in the i. Regedit will prompt for a name to attach the hive to, HOMEKEY is the assumed value used in these steps click OK to complete the Load Hive process. Windows Media Player Volume Control Mouse Scroll. Locate the following registry key HKEYLOCALMACHINEHomekeyControl. Set. 00. 1Servicessetupdd. Edit the DEFAULT key and change the following values to 0. Change the name to the value HOMEKEY to anything. Highlight HOMEKEY and select FILE UNLOAD HIVE. You can now burn the data on your hard drive to a CD. Then use the CD to install Windows XP. Be sure to make the CD bootable. You can use the instructions here to help you do that. Autarchy of the Private Cave. It is possible to install gpedit. MMC in Windows XP Home Edition. I found the list of necessary files on pagesperso orange. The Complete Book Of Running Jim Fixx Pdf there. French, which also had the archive of all the necessary again, French files and the installation batch file. Warning you proceed at your own risk. If you do not know what you are doing please dont Download original French gpedit pour xp home. Download English gpedit for windows xp home. Here are instructions for manual MMC snap in installation. Original French version archive had a batch file which does installation automatically, which I also added to the English archive gpedinst. Pearl`S Peril Game. But you must manually verify that batch file fits your system before running it It might be safer to follow the instructions manually. Put these files appmgmts. System. Rootsystem. System. Rootsystem. Group. PolicyADM create if this folder doesnt existfinally, run these commands one by one in the CMD window regsvr. That should make gpedit. Start Run gpedit. Other language versions of the necessary files can be retrieved from corresponding language installations of Win. XP Professional English version can also be downloaded directly from Microsoft website e. Group Policy ADM Files at microsoft. Also, you can extract necessary files from available Windows distributions just dont forget, that filename. XP bundled extract command. See also this comment for alternative gpedit installation get the file from badongo first, and also this comment for one more explanation of manual installation. Geeks corner a comprehensive list of the Group PolicyUser ConfigurationAdministrative Templates settings in Windows XP Home Editionan extremely comprehensive Excel sheet, which maps numerous. Group Policy Settings Reference Policy. Settings. xls. This file is for Windows 2. Windows XP, and Windows 2. Disclaimer I do not know if modifying e. Win. XP HE is a violation of any EULAs. Its your own responsibility to check this out and comply with any such regulations. Also, be advised that modifying any settings using gpedit. Win. XP HE may render some parts of the OS inoperable in my opinion. You have been warned This entry was posted on Thursday, November 1. Links, Notepad, Software. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.