Forum Moderators: open
LOL Made my day :)
The primary differences, aside from the price and the color of the packaging, are as follows:
*** Windows XP Home Edition ***
Contains basic support for security among multiple users.
Built-in support for peer-to-peer networking
The backup utlity is not installed by default, but is included on the CD.
*******************************
*** Windows XP Professional Edition ***
Includes extended support for security between multiple users on the same machine.
Better support for peer-to-peer networking, plus support for joining a "Windows NT domain."
The backup utlity is installed by default.
The Professional edition includes the following components not found in the Home edition:
Administrative Tools (in the Start Menu and Control Panel)
Automated System Recovery (ASR)
Boot Configuration Manager
DriverQuery
Group Policy Refresh Utility
Multi-lingual User Interface (MUI) add-on
Offline Files and Folders
OpenFiles
Performance Log Manager
Remote Desktop
Scheduled Tasks Console
Security Template Utility
Taskkill
Tasklist
Telnet Administrator
Provides support for multi-processor systems, Dynamic Disks, Fax
*****************************
If you aren't you can get away with Home.
Personally, I would spend the extra $70.00 just in case.
Warren
Contains basic support for security
Don't all versions of Windows have only basic support for security?
NO!
ever walked up to a windows95,98, or ME machine sitting at a logon prompt and clicked "cancel" instead of entering the username and password? (try it if you have not...)
You dump to the default desktop and have total access to the machine.
No security in any windows version except NT based OS's...(NT workstation/server, 2000, XP).
There "is" a registry setting that does not allow you to simply click cancel and gain access....however few people utilize this setting.
[edited by: Terabytes at 10:23 pm (utc) on July 28, 2004]
Unfortunately, I upgraded to XP Home without checking this. None of my programs were affected, but my wife uses AutoCAD (an older version - I think 2002) and it was only compatible with XP Pro.
"Don't all versions of Windows have only basic support for security?"NO!
I'd say both could be broken in about the same amount of time, though the latter (NT 5.x) requires something to mount it that can read NTFS (rather than 9x which just requires a DOS floppy and then a quick del *.pwl :P)
And the latter totally incorporates IE6 into the OS which is a security hole large enough to drive several trucks through, as recent events have shown.
You pay for Microsoft products?
LOL!
J.
XP Pro has IIS installed (or installable as an option) - XP Home does not.
This was the biggest point for me as I use IIS to preview sites locally on my laptop....
I dare say I could install Apache on XP Home for a suitable solution though ....
The problem is that get Win2K Pro and XP Home to see each other on the network is nearly impossible because you can't log into a domain with XP Home.
Personally, except for the multi-media functions, I would rather stick with Win2K, but that's just me. I might pay to upgrade XP from Home to Pro, but will not pay to upgrade from 2K to XP.
Tom
XP Pro has IIS installed (or installable as an option) - XP Home does not.
This is also the reason I went Pro. I needed Cold Fusion and PHP in order to test more accurately.
You dump to the default desktop and have total access to the machine.
Actually, IIRC it does more than dump you to the default desktop, it actually dumps you into the profile of the last user that attempted, succesfully or not to logon to that machine.
Try it out if you have 9x - create a new account, attempt to log on with that account and an incorrect password, ok the error that comes up saying you have put an incorrect password in then hit cancel, hey presto you are on that users local desktop.
Although you do get access to the desktop, passwords and other sensitive or protected data is inaccessible but it certainly gives more priveliges than should be expected.
