playsatan Posted April 17, 2003 Share Posted April 17, 2003 I'm possibly wrong, but i seem to remember seeing something about a hack which confused windows 2003 server into thinking it was in fact windows XP, or some other none server variant of the windows family. Anyone know if i've dreamt this, or if it is in fact a reality -- if the latter, how does one go about making one's OS confused in such a way? Ta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicane-UK Veteran Posted April 17, 2003 Veteran Share Posted April 17, 2003 Hm.. i've seen the hack that allows you to convert Windows XP Home into Windows XP Pro... dunno about this one though :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy Posted April 17, 2003 Share Posted April 17, 2003 tweakNT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HPMCommander Posted April 17, 2003 Share Posted April 17, 2003 yeah, TweakNT does it, goes from XP Home to Pro, MCE, Tablet, and any variety of server, doesen't come with the baggage though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanecorp Posted April 17, 2003 Share Posted April 17, 2003 well i turned my 2k3 server into a workstation by enabling some servies and disabling some others.. that may be what you're thinking of? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix_25 Posted April 17, 2003 Share Posted April 17, 2003 >>Click Here<< :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProNetPC Posted April 18, 2003 Share Posted April 18, 2003 NTSwitch will do it too. Download it here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red8Rain Posted April 18, 2003 Share Posted April 18, 2003 I don't get this request... why in the world do you want to install win'03 and change it to XP? If you are talking about the interface, a server isn't suppose to be fancy looking, it just need to perform its daily function ... to serve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playsatan Posted April 20, 2003 Author Share Posted April 20, 2003 Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah... The request is nothing to do with "fancy looking", and my windows XP Pro machine still runs a windows classic desktop, the request is to do with attempting to get certain "not installable under windows 2003" applications onto the machine. Thanks everyone, have the said utility -- now not quite sure i dare to run it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Veteran Posted April 21, 2003 Veteran Share Posted April 21, 2003 run it, it makes a complete backup of the registry. if it doesn't work, then use the recovery console to navigate to \windows\system32\config and replace the file "system" (that's right, no extension, just "system") with the backup it made. i did this with an earlier version of tweaknt and it didn't work. did this fix myself and it works fine now.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nekrosoft13 Posted April 21, 2003 Share Posted April 21, 2003 you seen this https://www.neowin.net/articles.php?action=more&id=54 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Veteran Posted April 21, 2003 Veteran Share Posted April 21, 2003 you seen this https://www.neowin.net/articles.php?action=more&id=54 that doesn't completely make it like xp though. it basically "turns on" all the features, but technically it is still windows server 2003. using tweak nt, you can turn it into the workstation version of nt 5.2 (even though it officially doesn't exist :laugh: ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fpd Posted April 21, 2003 Share Posted April 21, 2003 has n e 1 tried converting home to pro? is it safe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thollian Posted April 29, 2003 Share Posted April 29, 2003 I just converted home to pro, and now i got some pro features which I am not suppose to have, no problems so far, works fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Veteran Posted April 30, 2003 Veteran Share Posted April 30, 2003 converting from home to pro should work fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjeeeboy Posted April 30, 2003 Share Posted April 30, 2003 Is this a more stable build of windows xp or just the same? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Veteran Posted April 30, 2003 Veteran Share Posted April 30, 2003 it's NOT xp, at all. it's a server. it's NT 5.2. the only difference, afaik, is the new kernel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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