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XP Home vs. XP Pro

post #1 of 14
4/9/06 at 3:09am
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I've been wondering... does Windows XP Professional have a big difference over XP Home?

Just wondering.
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post #2 of 14
4/9/06 at 11:35am
mostly networking facilities.
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post #3 of 14
4/9/06 at 12:22pm
yeah networking and security.
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post #4 of 14
4/9/06 at 12:57pm
And for the networking and security facilities there exists a way to upgrade your home verion to a "homepro" version for free. How this is done is/was printed in most computermagazines.
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post #5 of 14
4/9/06 at 6:57pm
egalus - how so ?

i remember when they first came out that they released powertoys for XP (all bundled) and it would allow XP home machine to be added to a domain and such, but other than that - i didnt know what options have been found to make XP home to be more like XP pro.

all i know is that i cant stand that the users (compmgmt.msc) is broken just to be broken

that and the file / directory advanced rights / ownership options are hidden unless you are in safemode
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post #6 of 14
4/9/06 at 11:24pm
all the extra utlities given in pro you can find on the net as shareware/freeware (not the actualy windows version) it isnt worth the extra muuuuuuKneeeee

soulsaver
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post #7 of 14
4/10/06 at 2:04am
Link to a page that explains how to setup Home on a 2k or 2k3 DC.
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post #8 of 14
4/10/06 at 5:47pm
XP Home supposedly only supports a single CPU (regardless of the number of cores on that CPU) while XP Pro supports two CPUs (again, regardless of the number of cores on the CPUs.)

That's probably not a concern, but it is a significant difference between the two.


Scott
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post #9 of 14
4/10/06 at 5:50pm
Imho, not worth the 70$ unless you're a network freak
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post #10 of 14
4/11/06 at 4:41pm
I accidently loaded XP Home on one of my PC's and it messed me all up.

You can't do Web Development or act as a web sevrer on XP Home because you can't install IIS.

Also, I never had a blue screen on Pro ever.....but I've had quite a few now since I've had home. I'm switching it out this weekend.

But, I suppose it depends on what you're doing.....I do a lot of programming and web development, and you just can't do it properly on Home.
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post #11 of 14
4/11/06 at 4:44pm
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Originally Posted by swonderme
I accidently loaded XP Home on one of my PC's and it messed me all up.

You can't do Web Development or act as a web sevrer on XP Home because you can't install IIS.

Also, I never had a blue screen on Pro ever.....but I've had quite a few now since I've had home. I'm switching it out this weekend.

But, I suppose it depends on what you're doing.....I do a lot of programming and web development, and you just can't do it properly on Home.
ive never in my 2+ years of using home ever got a bsod, 98 pumped em out like free donuts in a fat camp

soulsaver
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post #12 of 14
4/11/06 at 5:00pm
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Originally Posted by soulsaver_8229
ive never in my 2+ years of using home ever got a bsod, 98 pumped em out like free donuts in a fat camp

soulsaver
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post #13 of 14
4/11/06 at 5:36pm
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Originally Posted by soulsaver_8229
ive never in my 2+ years of using home ever got a bsod, 98 pumped em out like free donuts in a fat camp

soulsaver
I was pretty suprised myself. I keep getting the same one, about once every 2 weeks, only while using Visual Studio 2005. The strange thing is that it's the same machine that was running XP Pro before, and I never got them then. I don't know what the deal is.

But man, I sure don't miss 98, that was a mess.

They have free donuts at fat camp??
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post #14 of 14
4/17/06 at 7:04pm

Differences Between Windows XP Home and Professional

Hello!

While many of the features that shipped only with Windows XP Professional (the ability to merge into a Domain, simple TCP/IP tools, IIS) can be easily added to Windows XP Home, I suspect that some of the other, more fundamental differences between the two codebases will be far more difficult to replicate.

Does anyone know how to add multiple processor support, true file-level access control, or true Encrypting File System (EFS) to Windows XP Home?

Hermetic
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