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'''Windows XP Professional allows up to 10 simultaneous file-sharing connections.'''<BR>'''Windows XP Professional allows up to 10 simultaneous file-sharing connections.''' Some advanced network components designed for corporate networks-the user interface for the IPSec manual configuration are not enabled in Windows XP Home Edition.* ''This is untested. It may not provide all of the features available in XP Pro.''Convert and turn Windows XP Home Edition to Windows XP Pro Edition, from within the operating system without re-installation. This is a partial conversion due to limitations in the scope of the process. Enable 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. 1. Copy the root directory and the i386 directory of the WindowsXP CD to your hard drive. 2. Extract the Bootsector of your Windows XP CD. You can use BBIE to do this. 3. Click START–>RUN–>REGEDIT 4. Highlight HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE 5. Click FILE–>LOAD HIVE and select the Setupreg.hiv fileThis file is located in the i386 folder. Use the one you extracted to your hard drive from your Windows XP CD. 6. Locate the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Homekey\ControlSet001\Services\setupdd 7. Edit the DEFAULT key and change the following values: 01 to 00 02 to 00 8. Change the name to the value HOMEKEY to anything.9. Locate the following registry key:* ''This will not provide all of the features available in XP Pro.'' HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Homekey\ControlSet001\Services\setupddEnable 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. The hack doesn’t actually install and add in all the features from Windows XP Professional that Windows XP Home has disabled. It will not provide Remote Desktop Server or Group Policy Editor, since those are features that are actually absent from XP Home rather than just being disabled. Edit the DEFAULT key and change the following values:In Windows XP Home edition many advanced features are simply disabled. Of those not altered from within the code, many can be switched back on via the Windows registry. This hack WILL NOT allow the converted Windows to join an NT domain. 01 to 00#Open Registry Editor (regedit). 02 to 00#Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet00X/Control/ProductOptions, where ControlSet00X is the one with the highest number.#Delete the ProductSuite registry key.#Then, create a new DWORD value and named it as Brand.#Set the “Brand” value data as 0.#Reboot the system.#On boot up after the BIOS screen, press F8 to display Windows XP Startup Menu.#Choose Last Known Good Configuration (LNG) and hit Enter.10. Highlight HOMEKEY and select FILE–>UNLOAD HIVEWindows XP will start up as usual. After logging into the desktop, check the system properties to verify that it’s now Windows XP Professional.