XP Home vs. Pro differences

[Robert Klein]

The XP Pro feature list goes into a lot more detail than
the XP Home feature list does, and I'm not sure whether
some of the items mentioned in the Pro list do not exist
in Home, or if they just didn't mention them in the Home
list. In particular, I noticed the following in the Pro
list:
*Built on base of Windows 2000 and Windows NT
*Enhanced Device Driver verifier
*Many s/w installations may not require reboot
*If system file is overwritten, Windows File Protection
wil restore the correct version
*Preemptive multitasking
*Supports up to 4GB of RAM
*Troubleshooters
*Hibernate
*Wireless networking
*Peer-to-peer networking support
*UDF 2.01
*Safe Mode start-up options

I'm sure many of these must exist in XP Home. Does anyone
know for sure which do?

Thanks.

 

[Steve C. Ray]

All of this is in Home except Peer-to-Peer networking.

 

[Ken Blake]

In

All of this is in Home except Peer-to-Peer networking.

No, not true. Peer-to-peer networking exists in XP Home, and
works just fine. XP Home's networking limitation is that it can
not join a domain.

 

[Ken Blake]

In

Thanks for the correction, Ken. I knew better, I'll just blame it on
old age!

You're welcome. Not a problem. We all sometimes make mistakes
when we know better--I know I sure do.

--
Ken Blake
Please reply to the newsgroup

 

[Robert Klein]

Thanks to both of you. There's so much confusing info
around. For instance, I saw a sign (apparently designed
by Microsoft, itself) in OfficeMax, that compared Home and
Pro. It showed a check mark under the Pro column
for "preemptive multitasking" but not under the Home
column for that category. This seemed highly
suspicious, to say the least...

- Rob

 

[Alex Nichol]

Thanks to both of you. There's so much confusing info
around. For instance, I saw a sign (apparently designed
by Microsoft, itself) in OfficeMax, that compared Home and
Pro. It showed a check mark under the Pro column
for "preemptive multitasking" but not under the Home
column for that category. This seemed highly
suspicious, to say the least...

That kind of 'indication' serves as no more than to tell you to ignore
*all* other items they indicate. The core of Home and Pro (where
multi-tasking is handled) consists of identical files. To the extent
that the MSDN installation disk I used has a common folder of components
for the two versions, plus a small additional one if you install Pro