5614 Posted January 2, 2005 Posted January 2, 2005 by 'XP Pro(f)' i mean windows XP proffessional. what are the differences between XP pro and XP home... i have heard of a few things you can do on Pro, however i have always been able to do them on home (which i have), can someone who has pro (sayo!) please state a task which i could not do at all on home? i mean for example, yesterday, i was reading about network connection settings (suspicious after that hack thread???) anyway, it said "on xp prof go to x, do y and z will happen so long as both you and the other networked comp is on XP pro" both my comps are XP home and it worked fine all the same! which made me wonder, hence this thread.
Kedas Posted January 2, 2005 Posted January 2, 2005 if I'm not mistaken the Pro supports 2 CPU's the home only one. That important when they come with there dual core cpu's. and then there are all the more extra's for more professional networks. (don't know the details)
5614 Posted January 2, 2005 Author Posted January 2, 2005 i didnt know you couldn't dual process on XP home, if someone could varify that it'd be a very useful fact to know. i'd also heard of the more advance XP pro networking options and wondered exactly what they were... i mean, what is there that you CANT do on home that you can do on pro? (e.g. an actual task rather than knowing there are!)
bloodhound Posted January 2, 2005 Posted January 2, 2005 there are inbuilt utilities that allow u can setup web servers and ftp servers in xp prof. while in home u will have to install third party stuff lik apache etc.
Kedas Posted January 2, 2005 Posted January 2, 2005 Anyway it would be nice to see what XP 64bit can do that shouldn't take to long now, a few more months.
Sayonara Posted January 2, 2005 Posted January 2, 2005 can someone who has pro (sayo!) please state a task which i could not do at all on home? I don't know what the differences are, because I have never used Home. Surely there must be some sort of features list on the Microsoft products web site?
5614 Posted January 2, 2005 Author Posted January 2, 2005 i cant find one on the MS website, however i can find one on other sites, so i cant promise 100% accuracy, but here's what this one says: http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp improved remote desktop assistance Multi-processor support Automated System Recovery Dynamic Disk Support intergrated fax Internet Information Services/Personal Web Server Encrypting File System File-level access control "C2" certification Domain membership Group Policy IntelliMirror Roaming profiles Multi-language support (can now be done in a single instal... WOW!) Sysprep support RIS support 64-bit The user interface for IPSecurity (IPSec) SNMP Simple TCP/IP services SAP Agent Client Service for NetWare Network Monitor Multiple Roaming feature Client-side caching those seem to be mostly XP Prof only, bold = what will make it go forward, ie. they are things technology needs to go forward.
MulderMan Posted January 3, 2005 Posted January 3, 2005 i think that refers to there is going to be support for 64-bt processing. one of the main pros of pro would be the networking funcionalities, eg the ability to join a domain and client policies. not much really needed for the home user but its nice to have.
Kedas Posted January 3, 2005 Posted January 3, 2005 XP Pro isn't 64 bit no it isn't this is a copy of what's on that site: * 64-bit Edition Microsoft is shipping a 64-bit version of Windows XP for Intel Itanium systems that mirrors the Professional Edition feature-set. So they clearly refer to XP 64-bit Edition. this probably mean that there will be two Professional versions (-XP Home) -XP Pro -XP 64-bit Edition. (based on the Professional version) So most likely the 64bit version will cost even more than the Professional version. (I hope I'm wrong about this) But the Itanium version should be an other one than the AMD64 one so I'm not sure.
5614 Posted January 3, 2005 Author Posted January 3, 2005 i dont know but i assumed that meant it had the capability to handle a 64 bit processor. also XP prof is supposed to be able to hand dual processor (and XP home cant) however my friend with XP home (SP2) can access processor affinity (windows task magnage > processes > right click on any process), this option is normally only available on computers which can dual process, so we (him and me) made the assumption that SP2 gives XP home computers the ability to have multiprocessors. (havent got SP2 myself, so i cant say more than that, he gave me a screen shot of what he can see (attached below))
Dave Posted January 3, 2005 Posted January 3, 2005 I know for a fact that XP Home doesn't do the advanced file sharing that XP Pro does. I don't *think* Home supports things like the P4 hyperthreading. Apart from that, that's about it really.
5614 Posted January 4, 2005 Author Posted January 4, 2005 i can now confirm that XP home SP2 supports dual processor... dunno about 64bit processor. i know that XP home SP2 supports P4 hyperthreading, not 100% sure about XP home SP1 and hyperthreading, i think it does, but dunno.
herme3 Posted January 22, 2005 Posted January 22, 2005 The differences probably wouldn't affect the average computer user. The biggest difference I noticed is that Windows XP Pro contains Internet Information Services. This means that you can use your computer as a web server. You can buy a web domain, and link it to your computer's IP address. Then you can store the HTML files on your computer's hard drive. Then whenever someone types in your domain name in an Internet browser, your web site will load because it will be hosted from your computer. Windows XP Pro also has more advanced file sharing controls. You can easily give certain network users access to certain folders, even if they are system folders. On Windows XP Home, you can't easily get into the hidden folder, C:\System Volume Information. This is because you can't change the folder sharing controls for this folder. However, in Windows XP Pro, you can turn off the lock with the advanced settings. Also, Windows XP Pro has advanced encryption technology. You can set a password on your computer, and if someone steals your computer, there is no way for them to access your files unless they know the password. Even if you take the hard drive out, and put it in another computer, it is still very difficult to hack open the encrypted files.
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