Which Windows

[chriswright]

Could anyone tell me what the differences are between XP Pro and XP home (apart from cost) as i can't seem to find anything of use to explain it.

Cheers
Chris

[scared but happy]

I think the pro version supports more than one CPU.

[Baconbonce]

Good comparison guide here...

[url]www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.mspx[/url]

Edited by Baconbonce on Friday 16th June 22:45

[Plotloss]

Home is Pro with a load of features stripped out.

Go for Pro.

[Kinky]

I think pro is more for corporate/office users - so includes networking options, etc.

Home is quite literally that - standalone user.

K

[Baconbonce]

Kinky said:

I think pro is more for corporate/office users - so includes networking options, etc.

Home is quite literally that - standalone user.

K

Home has networking functionality, it's just that it cannot join a Windows domain environment (although there are ways apparently) - workgroup only.

[thepassenger]

Also I belive that XP Home did (or does) deactivate it's network connection if it detects more than 5 IP addresses. It also removed the old NT4/2K Share screens and replaces it with the happy fuzzy bunny version (XP Pro defaults to using this mode but a quick fiddle to turn off Simple File Sharing sorts it out).

If it's a business machine get Pro. If your a geek and have more than 5 machines in the house all running get Pro. If your a gammer and you attend Lan sessions where more than 5 people attend get Pro. If your just pottering around the net on a laptop or desktop, get Home.

[Baconbonce]

thepassenger said:

Also I belive that XP Home did (or does) deactivate it's network connection if it detects more than 5 IP addresses.

The 5 IP address limit you are refering to is the maximum number of computers that can connect to XP Home's shared resources simultaneously - it doesn't turn off networking if there are more than 5 devices/IP addresses detected, just won't allow a 6th to connect to it.

XP Pro has a limit of 10 simultaneous connections from other PC's.

[_dobbo_]

Try adding more than 5 ips to a network card in Home and it will de-activate networking, trust me I've done it.

Took me a while to work out as well because I added them all then turned the machine off, forgot about it for a week and came back to having no network.

[Baconbonce]

_dobbo_ said:

Try adding more than 5 ips to a network card in Home and it will de-activate networking, trust me I've done it.

Took me a while to work out as well because I added them all then turned the machine off, forgot about it for a week and came back to having no network.

Why would you want to add 5 IP addresses to a network card?

[_dobbo_]

So I can run a web/email server with multiple domains each of which has it's own IP address. Or not, as the case may be in XP Home.

[Baconbonce]

_dobbo_ said:

So I can run a web/email server with multiple domains each of which has it's own IP address. Or not, as the case may be in XP Home.

Well, yes XP Home really isn't the right product for that environment!

Still doesn't mean an XP Home machine stops working when there's more than 5 machines on the network though as mentioned by thepassenger further up the thread - it will work quite happily, but only allow a maximum of 5 inbound connections at any time. Never seen it pack up the networking when a 6th machine tries to connect though.

Edited by Baconbonce on Sunday 18th June 12:04

[_dobbo_]

No argument from me, the machine was purchased for gaming rather than as a development environment, circumstances changed!

[zumbruk]

XP Home doesn't support SFU (Services for Unix), either.