License for XP Professional
A friend of mine has a PC with a dodgy version of XP Professional (supplied by a computer shop would you believe!) which means it can't be updated from the Microsoft site - it hasn't even got SP2 on it.
She wants to get a proper licensed version - so she's not interested in fiddled ways of updating or borrowing SP2 on a disk etc.
Do you know what the easiest/cheapest way of going about this is?
Can you somehow license the version that is currently on the PC?
Do you need to buy a pukka version and then install it on top? (it doesn't need to be Professional, Home would do fine). And if so, do you need a full version or is there an upgrade version you can get?
Any thoughts gratefully received.