XP Home or Professional

[Guest Talal Itani]

Hello,

 

I currently have 2 PCs at the office, one with XP Home, the other with XP

Professional. I do not see a difference. I am putting a new PC, and I do

not know if I should buy XP Home or XP Pro. I will be doing some remote

accessing when I travel. Is remote accessing good on XP and a good reason

to get XP Pro?

 

T.I.

[Guest Meinolf Weber]

Re: XP Home or Professional

 

Hello Talal,

 

See here the differences:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/howtobuy/choosing2.mspx

 

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> Hello,

>

> I currently have 2 PCs at the office, one with XP Home, the other with

> XP Professional. I do not see a difference. I am putting a new PC,

> and I do not know if I should buy XP Home or XP Pro. I will be doing

> some remote accessing when I travel. Is remote accessing good on XP

> and a good reason to get XP Pro?

>

> T.I.

>

[Guest R. McCarty]

Re: XP Home or Professional

 

There are more reasons to use Professional. If at some point you

expand and need a Server/Domain configuration you'll want XP

Professional on the PCs. Visually Home & Pro appear identical

but it's the underlying capabilities that aren't easily seen. Having a

Remote Desktop capable machine would justify the cost.

 

"Talal Itani" <titani@verizon.net> wrote in message

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> Hello,

>

> I currently have 2 PCs at the office, one with XP Home, the other with XP

> Professional. I do not see a difference. I am putting a new PC, and I do

> not know if I should buy XP Home or XP Pro. I will be doing some remote

> accessing when I travel. Is remote accessing good on XP and a good reason

> to get XP Pro?

>

> T.I.

>

[Guest Thee Chicago Wolf]

Re: XP Home or Professional

 

>I currently have 2 PCs at the office, one with XP Home, the other with XP

>Professional. I do not see a difference. I am putting a new PC, and I do

>not know if I should buy XP Home or XP Pro. I will be doing some remote

>accessing when I travel. Is remote accessing good on XP and a good reason

>to get XP Pro?

 

If for basic Internet surfing and some general document writing and

number crunching, Home would be fine. If for some more advanced gaming

and other network related functionality is required, Professional. For

remote access, Professional would be a safe bet.

 

- Thee Chicago Wolf

[Guest Ken Blake, MVP]

Re: XP Home or Professional

 

On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:01:34 GMT, "Talal Itani" <titani@verizon.net>

wrote:

> Hello,

>

> I currently have 2 PCs at the office, one with XP Home, the other with XP

> Professional. I do not see a difference. I am putting a new PC, and I do

> not know if I should buy XP Home or XP Pro. I will be doing some remote

> accessing when I travel. Is remote accessing good on XP and a good reason

> to get XP Pro?

 

 

XP Professional and XP Home are exactly the same in all respects,

except that Professional has a few features (mostly related to

networking and security) missing from Home. For most (but not all)

home users, even those with a home network, these features aren't

needed, would never be used, and buying Professional instead of Home

is a waste of money. In general, unless you need to join a domain, you

probably don't need Professional.

 

For details go to

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp

 

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/whichxp.asp

 

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.asp

 

Also note one other point not mentioned on any of those sites:

Professional allows ten concurrent network connections, and Home only

five.

 

--

Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience

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[Guest Daave]

Re: XP Home or Professional

 

Ken Blake, MVP wrote:

> Professional allows ten concurrent network connections, and Home only

> five.

 

There is a way to allow up to ten simultaneous downloads in IE for those

using XP Home:

 

http://www.petri.co.il/allow_more_than_2_simultaneous_downloads_in_ie_6.htm

[Guest Talal Itani]

Re: XP Home or Professional

 

 

Does it mean that XP Home does not support the new dual-core processors?

 

 

 

"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message

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> On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:01:34 GMT, "Talal Itani" <titani@verizon.net>

> wrote:

>

>> Hello,

>>

>> I currently have 2 PCs at the office, one with XP Home, the other with XP

>> Professional. I do not see a difference. I am putting a new PC, and I

>> do

>> not know if I should buy XP Home or XP Pro. I will be doing some remote

>> accessing when I travel. Is remote accessing good on XP and a good

>> reason

>> to get XP Pro?

>

>

> XP Professional and XP Home are exactly the same in all respects,

> except that Professional has a few features (mostly related to

> networking and security) missing from Home. For most (but not all)

> home users, even those with a home network, these features aren't

> needed, would never be used, and buying Professional instead of Home

> is a waste of money. In general, unless you need to join a domain, you

> probably don't need Professional.

>

> For details go to

> http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp

>

> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/whichxp.asp

>

> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.asp

>

> Also note one other point not mentioned on any of those sites:

> Professional allows ten concurrent network connections, and Home only

> five.

>

> --

> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience

> Please Reply to the Newsgroup

[Guest Daave]

Re: XP Home or Professional

 

Talal Itani wrote:

> Does it mean that XP Home does not support the new dual-core

> processors?

 

XP Home *does* support dual-core processors, which are actually single

processors with two cores. However, on the rare machine that does indeed

have more than one CPU, XP Pro is necessary.

[Guest Ken Blake, MVP]

Re: XP Home or Professional

 

On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:53:30 GMT, "Talal Itani" <titani@verizon.net>

wrote:

>

> Does it mean that XP Home does not support the new dual-core processors?

 

 

No, it doesn't mean that. It will support any number of cores in a

single processor. However it supports only a single physical

processor.

 

 

> "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message

> news:2eal44dm8gf9rr80l32cndfdd99aep54ra@4ax.com...

> > On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:01:34 GMT, "Talal Itani" <titani@verizon.net>

> > wrote:

> >

> >> Hello,

> >>

> >> I currently have 2 PCs at the office, one with XP Home, the other with XP

> >> Professional. I do not see a difference. I am putting a new PC, and I

> >> do

> >> not know if I should buy XP Home or XP Pro. I will be doing some remote

> >> accessing when I travel. Is remote accessing good on XP and a good

> >> reason

> >> to get XP Pro?

> >

> >

> > XP Professional and XP Home are exactly the same in all respects,

> > except that Professional has a few features (mostly related to

> > networking and security) missing from Home. For most (but not all)

> > home users, even those with a home network, these features aren't

> > needed, would never be used, and buying Professional instead of Home

> > is a waste of money. In general, unless you need to join a domain, you

> > probably don't need Professional.

> >

> > For details go to

> > http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp

> >

> > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/whichxp.asp

> >

> > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.asp

> >

> > Also note one other point not mentioned on any of those sites:

> > Professional allows ten concurrent network connections, and Home only

> > five.

> >

> > --

> > Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience

> > Please Reply to the Newsgroup

>

 

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[Guest Plato]

Re: XP Home or Professional

 

Talal Itani wrote:

>

> I currently have 2 PCs at the office, one with XP Home, the other with XP

> Professional. I do not see a difference. I am putting a new PC, and I do

> not know if I should buy XP Home or XP Pro. I will be doing some remote

> accessing when I travel. Is remote accessing good on XP and a good reason

> to get XP Pro?

 

The difference is $100 or so, that's all.

 

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