Differences between XP Pro & Home

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Domain

by ccthompson · 12 years ago In reply to Differences between XP Pr ...

THe main differance between them is that XP Pro is able to join a domain. So, if you plan to get more computers for the business down the road, i would go with PRO, but if its always going to be 1 PC, i would stick with HOME.

XP home can be modified to join a domain, but i have never been able to make it work good.

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I would like for you

by Old Guy · 12 years ago In reply to Domain

to tell me how you got an XP home to join a domain? I tried every way I knew of to do that and I had a networking company try it as well and never could get an XP Home to join. I've been able to access resources from a domain but never to actually join it.

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Crack on the web

by ccthompson · 12 years ago In reply to I would like for you

Its a crack found on the web, i cant remeber the name of it, but it was a drawn out process. You have to install this program, modify the registry and on and on.

But like i said above, ive never been able to make it work very great. I got the option to join the domain, then things start to go haywire.

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IIS

by Ed Woychowsky · 12 years ago In reply to Differences between XP Pr ...

XP Pro also has Internet Information Services, so it can run a web server. This can be quite useful for developers.

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Network, Disk, CPU

by TonytheTiger · 12 years ago In reply to Differences between XP Pr ...

Network: Home can only be in a workgroup environment, not a domain.

Disk system: Home doesn't do NTFS.

CPU: Home does not support multiple CPUs

That's out of the box. It may be possible to cheat on any of these.

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