XP Pro vs Home

[SanchoP]

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[HavocXphere]

I stay away from home, but AFAIK the differences are mainly:

Home, has limited control over users, logon, file access control.

All the MMC (Microsoft management console) are missing in Home. That means not control over services, group policies etc.

It might also have some restrictions on file sharing. Not so sure about that one.

If none of the above means anything to you then go for home.

 

[general_koffi]

It might also have some restrictions on file sharing. Not so sure about that one.

I'm not sure it allows password-protected file sharing...

 

[ziggler]

XP home also does not allow connection to a windows DC(domain Controller)

 

[Claymore]

I stay away from home, but AFAIK the differences are mainly:

Home, has limited control over users, logon, file access control.

All the MMC (Microsoft management console) are missing in Home. That means not control over services, group policies etc.

It might also have some restrictions on file sharing. Not so sure about that one.

If none of the above means anything to you then go for home.

The MMC thing is not correct - you can certainly control things with MMC, like services, event logs etc.

The major differences:
Pro can log on to a domain, and everything that goes with that (group policies, etc).
Pro has Remote Desktop support (as server, not just RDP client)
Pro has more extensive control over security (though some things that are shielded from the GUI in Home can be done via the command line).

 

[HavocXphere]

The MMC thing is not correct - you can certainly control things with MMC, like services, event logs etc.

Oh OK. But I'm fairly sure some or other Windows version blocks MMC.

 

[PeterCH]

Essentially there is no file encryption on Home and as mentioned some network
things are different, although you can still create/log on to a wireless network etc.

Otherwise Home and Pro are identical. I use Home on a desktop with Adobe Premiere
Pro and on my Wintel Laptop I have Pro. Performance wise they're both the same
as they use the same kernel.

 

[cryptic1]

Vista FTW

 

[mercurial]

Vista FTW

 

[The_Techie]

Vista FTW

Snap out of it, man!

 

[mercurial]

Snap out of it, man!

ya snap out of it man

 

[d-_-b]

Vista FTW

I will correct that for you: "Vista SP1 FTW"

Honestly before I will go the vista root I will try to get my windows applications running on Wine and Ubuntu.

Regards,

 

[Claymore]

Oh OK. But I'm fairly sure some or other Windows version blocks MMC.

The Management Console is a wrapper for tools; blocking MMC would block the use of *all* tools that use it, and there are a lot.

 

[Random717]

Oh OK. But I'm fairly sure some or other Windows version blocks MMC.

Might be Windows Starter edition... If I recall correctly you can't change stuff like proxy settings for dialup connections, can't even open regedit. It's utterly useless!