Win XP Home vs Pro stability ?

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Greetings,

I'm about to purchase a new PC, and consider getting XP Home
or Pro (OEM). I have a few questions about these two:

1- Is the Pro more reliable/stable than Home (similar to
NT vs win9X)?

2- what are the key differences between Pro and Home ?

3- will XP install on a FAT32 partition?

4- will XP (OEM) install on a blank partition, and "coexist
peacefully" with other operating systems and a boot manager
(all installed in separate partitions)?

5- does XP run win16 software (such as MS Office 4.3)?

Thanks.
 
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Greetings,

I'm about to purchase a new PC, and consider getting XP Home
or Pro (OEM). I have a few questions about these two:

1- Is the Pro more reliable/stable than Home (similar to
NT vs win9X)? they are equally reliable.

2- what are the key differences between Pro and Home ? Pro is more of a
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replacement for NT Workstation - networking support
3- will XP install on a FAT32 partition? yes, but not recommended

4- will XP (OEM) install on a blank partition, and "coexist
peacefully" with other operating systems and a boot manager
(all installed in separate partitions)? yes, again MS does not recommend
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it; Pro should be on the first partition
 
Greetings,

I'm about to purchase a new PC, and consider getting XP Home
or Pro (OEM). I have a few questions about these two:

1- Is the Pro more reliable/stable than Home (similar to
NT vs win9X)?
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No. They are identical operating systems. Pro just has some networking and
security features that home does not. They are both NT kernal based.
2- what are the key differences between Pro and Home ?
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/whichxp.asp


3- will XP install on a FAT32 partition?
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Yes, but if you have xp pro, you lose security features by going fat32. NTFS
is usually a better choice.
4- will XP (OEM) install on a blank partition, and "coexist
peacefully" with other operating systems and a boot manager
(all installed in separate partitions)?
Yes.


5- does XP run win16 software (such as MS Office 4.3)?
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I doubt it.
 
1. Both XP Home and XP Pro are identical in terms of stability.

2. XP Pro offers advanced networking necessary to join a server
domain, file encryption, and a personal web server component.

3. Yes, but XP runs best on a NTFS partition.

4. Yes

5. Only Microsoft Office 97 or newer versions are compatible.

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Nicholas

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| Greetings,
|
| I'm about to purchase a new PC, and consider getting XP Home
| or Pro (OEM). I have a few questions about these two:
|
| 1- Is the Pro more reliable/stable than Home (similar to
| NT vs win9X)?
|
| 2- what are the key differences between Pro and Home ?
|
| 3- will XP install on a FAT32 partition?
|
| 4- will XP (OEM) install on a blank partition, and "coexist
| peacefully" with other operating systems and a boot manager
| (all installed in separate partitions)?
|
| 5- does XP run win16 software (such as MS Office 4.3)?
|
| Thanks.
|
|
 
Re: Home vs Pro:

There are significant differences between the two.

Some things that Home does not have/support (that Pro does):
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 said:
Re: Home vs Pro:

There are significant differences between the two.

Some things that Home does not have/support (that Pro does):
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
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According to Bruce Chambers (MVP), there is no difference between Home and Pro , "The two versions are identical when it comes to stability, functionality, and device driver and software application
compatibility". http://tinyurl.com/ig3z

And Ken Blake (MVP in the making) says, both Home and Pro "are exactly the same in all respects". Yet goes on to say they are different! http://tinyurl.com/ig3p
 
5. Only Microsoft Office 97 or newer versions are
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compatible.



This isn't true. I can't speak about all Office 95 applications,
but I can confirm that both Word 95 and Excel 95 run fine here.
 
1.xp is surely more reliable and stable than home
2.install xp require more free space,and of course xp have more function
that home edition does not have
3.xp can go well with fat32
4.xp can coexit peacefully with 98 and 2000,and boot manager such as "system
commander"(i have try this on my computer)
5.my xp pro can manager win16 software well.those old software once run in
dos can
perfectly run in xp pro
 
1.xp is surely more reliable and stable than home
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Do you mean that XP *Professional* is "surely more reliable and
stable than home"?

If so, that's completely wrong. They are exactly the same in
those respects.

2.install xp require more free space,and of course xp have more function
that home edition does not have
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It has a few extra functions, mostly related to networking and
security. Most home users don't need those features, and would
never use them, even if they had them.

3.xp can go well with fat32
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Both XP Home and Professional can use FAT32.

4.xp can coexit peacefully with 98 and 2000,and boot manager such as "system
commander"(i have try this on my computer)
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Both XP Home and Professional can do this equally well.

5.my xp pro can manager win16 software well.those old software once run in
dos can
perfectly run in xp pro
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Both XP Home and Professional can do this equally well.
 
I beta tested XP Home Edition and since testing closed I have run XP
Professional (with SP1, which I also tested). I can assure any user of
either system that both are very stable and cause few if any operating
problems. This is especially true if the original installation was solid
and if you have no software or hardward conflicts, all of which can be
readily prevented or corrected if they occur. Running checkdisk and defrag
about once a week helps, too. I have recommended XP Home or Pro to any
number of "ordinary" computer users, with consistently excellent results.

Stan Nelson
WinXP Pro SP1
(e-mail address removed)
 
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