How to Clean up XP Home and install XP Professional

[Tissa]

What are the pros and cons about Wiping out the entire
the computer and installing XP Professional? I cannot
deal with the XP Home edition. I am used to having
excel, word and outlook. I don't like the user accounts
either. HELP!!!!!!!!!

 

[George \(Bindar Dundat\)]

You are going to have the same thing with XP Pro. Excel, Word and Outlook are
part of Microsoft Office and not part of any Microsoft operating system
including XP Pro. You will have to purchase a copy of Office and install it.
Office works just fine on XP Home Edition.

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| What are the pros and cons about Wiping out the entire
| the computer and installing XP Professional? I cannot
| deal with the XP Home edition. I am used to having
| excel, word and outlook. I don't like the user accounts
| either. HELP!!!!!!!!!

 

[Ken Blake]

What are the pros and cons about Wiping out the entire
the computer and installing XP Professional? I cannot
deal with the XP Home edition. I am used to having
excel, word and outlook. I don't like the user accounts
either.

Neither XP Professional nor XP Home, nor any other version of
Windows, has ever come with Word, Excel, Outlook, or any other
application software.
These are components of Microsoft Office, and can be obtained
either by buying Microsoft Office or buying them standalone. If
your previous computer, running Windows 9X, came with these
applications, it wasn't because Windows 9X came with them, it was
because the company who sold it to you chose to bundle them (or
Microsoft Office) as part of the package it sold.

So upgrading to XP Professional won't help you at all in this
respect, and probably not in any other respect either. 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

 

[CS]

What are the pros and cons about Wiping out the entire
the computer and installing XP Professional? I cannot
deal with the XP Home edition. I am used to having
excel, word and outlook. I don't like the user accounts
either. HELP!!!!!!!!!

No version of Windows has ever included Excel, Word, Outlook. For
that you need to purchase MS Office. Save your money and buy Office
not XP Pro. XP Pro also has user accounts.

 

[George \(Bindar Dundat\)]

I suspect that Tissa may have seen an OEM installation that included parts (or
all) of the Office package and assumed that they were a standard component of
XP.

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| What makes you think that Excel, Word and Outlook come with Windows XP
| Professional?
|
| | > What are the pros and cons about Wiping out the entire
| > the computer and installing XP Professional? I cannot
| > deal with the XP Home edition. I am used to having
| > excel, word and outlook. I don't like the user accounts
| > either. HELP!!!!!!!!!
|
|

 

[steve]

-----Original Message-----



Neither XP Professional nor XP Home, nor any other version of
Windows, has ever come with Word, Excel, Outlook, or any other
application software.
These are components of Microsoft Office, and can be obtained
either by buying Microsoft Office or buying them standalone. If
your previous computer, running Windows 9X, came with these
applications, it wasn't because Windows 9X came with them, it was
because the company who sold it to you chose to bundle them (or
Microsoft Office) as part of the package it sold.

So upgrading to XP Professional won't help you at all in this
respect, and probably not in any other respect either. 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.a sp
2.asp


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Ken Blake
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I do agree with almost everything everyone was saying.

Xp/2003/2000/98 ... you name it; doesn't come with the
applications your wanting, but I have xp pro and had xp
home for a short time before pro. I do see a difference
in the performance of the 2. Home had a tendacy to either
freaze quite often or crash. I'm not say all the time,
but it did it a few too many times. I like pro because I
too have a network and it works better with that. Also,
Xp pro hasn't crashed nor froze on me once in the last
year. Also, if I was you, I would purchase the office. I
have both office and works. I prefer office over works
and its worth it. But xp pro will run smoother than home
if you're doing more than the basic things like
internet.....etc.

 

[Ken Blake]

I have xp pro and had xp
home for a short time before pro. I do see a difference
in the performance of the 2. Home had a tendacy to either
freaze quite often or crash. I'm not say all the time,
but it did it a few too many times.

XP Home and Professional are identical in stability. If you found
that Home froze or crashed and Professional didn't, it's either
because you ran them with different hardware, you ran unstable
software under Home, or you had them set up differently in some
way.

I like pro because I
too have a network and it works better with that.

XP Professional does not work better with a network, assuming
that you're talking about a peer-to-peer network. Yes, you need
Professional to join a domain, but most home users don't need to
do that. The only way in which the two differ with a network is
that Professional give you better control over who can access
what. Only if you need that control is there any difference.