Pro or Home

[Scott Egbert]

I just bought a new computer for my business. Gateway 700 GR from Bestbuy.
It came loaded with XP Home and probably some other crap.

Should I format C: and load my XP Pro or leave it alone? Is home edition
fine fro what I do?

I use this desktop for Cad, Word, Quickbooks Pro, Web Design (FrontPage
2003), Publisher, Acrobat Pro, Music (Nero and CDEX), email and internet. It
will also be the main computer that will be networked with my notebook. I
use 4 printers, a scanner,wireless router and DSL.

Scott

 

[Ben]

Home edition is a simpler edition of XP.
If you need a network in your office, Por maybe needed.
If you just use one or two computer to work, Home edtion is enough for you.
Home or Pro are just names.
Sometimes names are not good, we may misunderstand it.
If someone is called ****er, what do you think of?
How about Mary ****er?
But if you care about the names, you need to be careful.
Home computer need Home edition, while Office computer need Professional
edition, a server need Server editon.
But there is not a Mobile edition for laptops.
Sometimes things are not as perfect as we think.
Anyway, according to MS, Professional edition is powerful, so you can use it
everywhere.
And Home edition is a byproduct of XP Pro.

 

[Ben]

Functional oriented.
You need to know what do you need.
See MS XP introductions for detail.

 

[Ron Martell]

I just bought a new computer for my business. Gateway 700 GR from Bestbuy.
It came loaded with XP Home and probably some other crap.

Should I format C: and load my XP Pro or leave it alone? Is home edition
fine fro what I do?

I use this desktop for Cad, Word, Quickbooks Pro, Web Design (FrontPage
2003), Publisher, Acrobat Pro, Music (Nero and CDEX), email and internet. It
will also be the main computer that will be networked with my notebook. I
use 4 printers, a scanner,wireless router and DSL.

Scott

See my reply to your identical posting in windowsxp.general


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."

 

[Scott Egbert]

Thank You

See my reply to your identical posting in windowsxp.general


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."