XP Home or XP Pro ?

Joey Ace · Post by **Joey Ace** » 18 Sep 2002 1:16 pm

I'm finally replacing my old P-166 .

(with a 2 GHZ P4, 512 MB RAM, 80 GB HD,

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I have to chose between XP Home and Pro.

Is there any reason to pay the extra $ for Pro?

Mark Ardito · Post by **Mark Ardito** » 18 Sep 2002 4:54 pm

Joey,

Yeah, spend the extra dinero and get the Professional edition. The home edition limits some networking features and also some control issues.

Mark

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Larry R · Post by **Larry R** » 24 Sep 2002 3:42 pm

Ditto's to Marks reply. XP Pro all the way and then add Microsoft Office. You'll be cookin' with the Pros then.

Bill Sampler · Post by **Bill Sampler** » 24 Sep 2002 6:23 pm

I agree. Choose the Pro version. The Home version does not have remote desktop or the system backup functionality. With the system backup feature you can easily backup and or all of your files into one neat tidy file that can be used for restore purposes.

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Mark Ardito · Post by **Mark Ardito** » 25 Sep 2002 6:40 am

Joey,

Also, the *home* version does not let you install the IIS service on your machine. I like to install that so I can program .asp and asp.net and test them out at home. I never make the IIS server active to the internet, but I just use it locally and pretend I have a web server. Basically XP Home edition is Windows ME. Actually Windows ME was the beta version of Windows XP Home.

Mark

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Ron Page · Post by **Ron Page** » 25 Sep 2002 12:31 pm

I was on the fence reading this until Bill said the magic words, "System Backup". Nuff said for me. I spent a good deal of time last weekend restoring my C-drive from a full backup tape. Without the full backup I'd have been toast -- even with most of my data on the D-drive.

I was trying to determine that issue from the Microsoft product info and thought they were indicating that XP Pro had a system level backup but they didn't come out and say that XP Home did not have it.

Thanks.

Steve Stallings · Post by **Steve Stallings** » 25 Sep 2002 1:10 pm

I've got XPhome on my home computer and quite frankly, it sucks. Every time I turn around a program is shutting down because of some type of conflict. My computer has sent so many error messages to Microsoft that I'm sure I'm a household name there. This is the buggiest windows and the most unstable platform I have ever seen. I truly detest it.

Jimmy Dale · Post by **Jimmy Dale** » 25 Sep 2002 10:08 pm

What Steve just said !!!! Only he said it a lot nicer than I would. Jim Miller I'D RATHER BE STEELIN'

Bill Crook · Post by **Bill Crook** » 26 Sep 2002 11:03 am

Joe....

Take the advice of a person who has much experience of reworkin' computers for folks who are/have been using WinXP/ME/98/NT. Your best bet is to move on up to "Windows 2000 Pro". The cost involved isn't much more than the other "Pro" series stuff and your problems will be only a fraction of the other O/S systems. (And it has all the "Net" stuff already set up for you.)

The other posts above are quite right in that Windows XP/ME is a POS. Considering the amount of money you are about to invest in a new system,a few more bucks for a decent O/S shouldn't be a big issue !!

Mark Ardito · Post by **Mark Ardito** » 26 Sep 2002 1:19 pm

I personally really like Windows XP Professional. I have had no problems with it. I have really pushed it as an OS and have never had it treat me bad. I however, also really like Windows 2000 professional. I think both OS's are great. XP has a little more *friendly* feel to it, 2000 to me seems very corporate and business looking (That is what it is made for).

Mark

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