XP Home and Professional

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dhi88

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Hey, can anyone tell me what's the difference between Windows HP Home Edition and Professional?? Thanks
 
I think that XP Professional has more business and professional level applications, whereas XP Home is designed for use at home, and thus, has much in-depth applications which are designed for ease.
 
Depends on which you want to use it for. If you have a business you might want to have Pro if you want to play games, do work and have a home computer use Home. Also if you have a home network then I would use Pro as well. Much better for networks
 
I was going to buy XP Pro to upgrade from XP Home but I remembered Longhorn will be out soon (Please be 2006) so I put my pocket money away :P I guess I'll buy Longhorn Pro, if it's available :D
I'de recommend XP Pro; even for home users XP Pro can offer valuable functions such as Network Setup Wizard and its a lot more stable than XP Home :D
 
I have XP Home and Xp Pro, I dont see a difference. Only the fact that one says home and the other says pro. :rolleyes:
 
The XP home is very limited when it comes to network abilities. For example, you can't administer a network when the server is running XP home, but you have a huge control over the network and users if you are using XP pro. I haven't used XP home, but I think the administrative tools is not there at all, while it's available in the XP Pro (I am not sure of this tip, so please if I am wrong, please guys tell me :)

Basically, that's the only major difference, the network functionality, other than that, you will find minor things like software handling, registry structure, hardware handling in general and so on. You won't be able to know all these because they are mainly background or backend features.
 
XP Home does have Administative Tool. The only thing is that on Pro you can change user accounts from administrative tools and on home, it wont even give you that option. :o
 
OS Dragon said:
I was going to buy XP Pro to upgrade from XP Home but I remembered Longhorn will be out soon (Please be 2006) so I put my pocket money away :P I guess I'll buy Longhorn Pro, if it's available :D
I'de recommend XP Pro; even for home users XP Pro can offer valuable functions such as Network Setup Wizard and its a lot more stable than XP Home :D
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From what I hear, with all of the delays (mainly due to security flaws in XP) longhorn has been put on hold until 2007 and possibly even 2008.
 
When you install service pack 2, it doesnt say either home or professional. Does service pack 2 basically give Home the Professional abilities?
 
Phatxam said:
XP Home does have Administative Tool. The only thing is that on Pro you can change user accounts from administrative tools and on home, it wont even give you that option. :o
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Thanks for clarifying Phatxam, I really needed to know this tip cause I never used XP home before.
 
speedyink said:
When you install service pack 2, it doesnt say either home or professional. Does service pack 2 basically give Home the Professional abilities?
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I don't think so, SP2 is mainly a security fix to security holes and problems in win XP, it's a security patch and not a windows update or an add on.
 
Narafa when has SP2 ever helped most of time you have to follow special instructions to update or install programs. SP2 drives me insane

Another great product by Microsoft :D
 
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