I bought a Pro Upgrade license and reading up on it, it looks like the 64-bit version won't upgrade XP 32-bit, but will instead do a clean install (wiping out the XP install in the process).

Last week I complained about Microsoft's shoddy documentation of how its upgrade procedures are supposed to work. I'm delighted to report that I got a tremendous and immediate response from within ...

QUESTION: I have noticed that you seem to be quite a fan of Windows XP and at work we now use Windows XP and it seems to give very little trouble so I have pretty well decided to upgrade my own ...

Well I have XP pro and in the readme it says in order to perform a clean install you can either have an os installed already (but this leaves you with an annoying "choose your os" prompt at restarts) ...

Update: Before you try all of this, you may want to try using WinToFlash, a utility designed to create a bootable Windows flash drive for Windows XP/Vista/7/Server. If this works for you, you can skip ...