I found this cool tutorial, which will change Home Edition into pro Edition in a matter of minutes. It was tested on russian and german windows versions, but I think it also works on English versions...

Instructions:

Go to Start > Run
Type "regedit" in Run dialog to bring up Registry Editor
Backup registry, just incase something wierd happens (Go to File > Export > Write any name, choose any folder and press "Save")
Go to "HKEY_LOCAL_MASHINE" > "SYSTEM" > "ControlSetXXX" (XXX = highest number, e.g can be ControlSet002) > Control > ProductOptions
When u do that, you should see "ProductSuite" in the right window. Right click it and press "Delete"
Right click anywhere in right window and select "New" > "DWORD Value". Name it "Brand" and value data should automatically be "0". If it's not, right click it, choose Modify and type "0" in value data text box.
Close Registry Editor and restart computer
During reboot, press F8 to get a number of options and there choose "Load latest successfull configuration" (something like that, sorry I don't know exactly what it says, because I translated it from Russian).

That's it.

Microsoft charge much more money for Pro edition, when you can just buy (or download from dreatica.cl) Home edition and make Pro out of it. You will have all the features that Pro users have. It will even say "Windows Professional Edition" during reboot...

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Fun but you still havent the full potential of windows xp pro!

You got some of the futures but NOT all!

well said!

btw.. mods just wanna ask.. why's there''s a medal below my nick? i mean what that means? sorry for bothering for this question...

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Well bro I'm a computer programmer and since I'm for very long time now I didn't knew that it could by such a peace of cake converting those XP home editions to XP Pro editions. Thank you bro for the info here.

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But keep in mind you don't have a full working version just get some of the features

can anyone confirm if this trick works?? im really interested but i want to make sure first before trying

The medal represent your status (power) in this forum. The more post you have, the better your medal looks like.. Like see mine or disguy, We both have different medals due to the ENORMOUS number of post between me and him.

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hey man i dont think this works have you done it for yourself cuz i tried and it doesnt seem to work.

i see... thanks Seifer!

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