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The lowest prices seen on a full install version of XP or any other version of Windows is the OEM releases. That is the Windows disk along with a small booklet without the retail carton and large paperback book. You can search for the lowest prices at different shopping sites like shopping.com, nextag.com, and others to compare the prices seen at different online vendors. In fact you can find the lowest on the 64bit version of XP Pro for about $55-$60 and roughly $80 for the 32bit version. Home edition does seem to catch a higher price usually.
The Pro version runs on the identical shell while having other not so much more features. The Home version is more geared for multimedia while the Pro version sees dos system files at the root of the hard drive for dos prompt logon to old networks plud being geared more in that direction. The registry will also see some differences in some ways besides those two main items there. For registry tweaks some things are different due to that.
Every copy of Windows whether a simple upgrade disk, recovery for prebuilt systems, or a full install version sold retail or OEM for system builders will have it's own unique product ID number. Buy any retail game or program on cd and you see the same thing. Basically that's unique for one machine only unless you buy an optional multi system license. For that you have to go direct to the software company(MS or other) in order to see what they offer for this.
Every copy of Windows whether a simple upgrade disk, recovery for prebuilt systems, or a full install version sold retail or OEM for system builders will have it's own unique product ID number. Buy any retail game or program on cd and you see the same thing. Basically that's unique for one machine only unless you buy an optional multi system license. For that you have to go direct to the software company(MS or other) in order to see what they offer for this.