Home vs. Pro

[~~Alan~~]

Would someone be so kind as to point me to an article pointing out the
diferences between XP Home and XP Pro.

Thank you,
~Alan

 

[E.P. van Westendorp]

Copied recently from another MicroSoft newsgroup

<QUOTE>
Subject:
Re: whats the difrence between XP pro, and XPhome?
From:
"Nicholas" <[email protected]>
Date:
Sat, 13 Sep 2003 13:04:53 -0500
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support

Windows XP Comparison Guide
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/howtobuy/choosing2.asp

Which Edition Is Right for You?
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/whichxp.asp


-- Nicholas
------------------------------------------------------------- "nils"
| whats the difrence
between XP pro, and XPhome?
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[Ramesh]

Alan,

This should help
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/howtobuy/choosing2.asp

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Regards,
Ramesh
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Would someone be so kind as to point me to an article pointing out the
diferences between XP Home and XP Pro.

Thank you,
~Alan

 

[Ken Blake]

In

Would someone be so kind as to point me to an article pointing out the
diferences between XP Home and 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, these features aren't needed, would never be
used, and buying Professional instead of Home is a waste of
money.

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 that Professional allows ten concurrent network
connections, and Home only five.

 

[~~Alan~~]

Thank you,

I was well aware of the Networking differences but I'm also interested in
the rest.

Thanks again,
~Alan

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

The two versions are identical when it comes to stability, and
device driver and software application compatibility, but are intended
to meet different functionality, networking, security, and ease-of-use
needs, in different environments. The most significant differences
are that WinXP Pro allows up to 10 simultaneous inbound network
connections while WinXP Home only allows only 5, WinXP Pro is designed
to join a Microsoft domain while WinXP Home cannot, and only WinXP Pro
supports file encryption and IIS.

Windows XP Comparison Guide
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.asp

Which Edition Is Right for You
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/whichxp.asp

Windows XP Home Edition vs. Professional Edition
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp


Bruce Chambers

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[CZ]

Would someone be so kind as to point me to an article pointing out the
differences between XP Home and XP Pro.

Alan:

I own and use both.
There are significant differences between the two.

Some things that Home does not have/support (that Pro does):
Ability to disable Simple File Sharing
Local group policy
gpedit.msc
ComputerMgmt: Local Users and Groups
ASR (Automatic System Recovery)
Client Service for Netware
Dynamic disks
Encrypted file system
Drive/folder/File level access control in normal GUI mode (does have it via
SafeMode)
IIS
Multi-processor support
NT/Win2k/Win2k3 domain membership
Power User gp
Offline files
Remote desktop hosting
tasklist cmd
systeminfo cmd

And Home cannot create user groups.

Also, Home is limited to 5 concurrent inbound connections, whereas Pro is
limited to 10

 

[CZ]

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, these features aren't needed, would never be
used, and buying Professional instead of Home is a waste of
money.


Ken:

Not exactly.
There are significant differences between the two.
IMO, it is very misleading to say that they are identical except for a few
features. Have you personally not used the two programs in depth?

Some things that Home does not have/support (that Pro does):
Ability to disable Simple File Sharing
Local group policy
gpedit.msc
ComputerMgmt: Local Users and Groups
ASR (Automatic System Recovery)
Client Service for Netware
Dynamic disks
Encrypted file system
Drive/folder/File level access control in normal GUI mode (does have it via
SafeMode)
IIS
Multi-processor support
NT/Win2k/Win2k3 domain membership
Power User gp
Offline files
Remote desktop hosting
tasklist cmd
systeminfo cmd

And Home cannot create user groups.

Also, Home is limited to 5 concurrent inbound connections, whereas Pro is
limited to 10