What are the differences between windows XP-Home & XP Professional ?
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This question was answered on February 14, 2003. Much of the information contained herein may have changed since posting.
The Home and Professional editions of Windows XP are nearly identical; the only differences are additional features found in the Professional edition that most likely won't appeal to home users The primary differences, aside from the price and the color of the packaging, are as follows:
Windows XP Home Edition
Contains basic support for security among multiple users
Built-in support for peer-to-peer networking, but only for up to five computers
The backup utlity is not installed by default, but is included on the CD
Windows XP Professional Edition
Includes extended support for security between multiple users on the same machine
Better support for peer-to-peer networking, plus support for joining a "Windows NT domain."
The backup utlity is installed by default
The Professional edition includes the following components not found in the Home edition:
Administrative Tools (in the Start Menu and Control Panel)
Automated System Recovery (ASR)
Boot Configuration Manager
DriverQuery
Group Policy Refresh Utility
Multi-lingual User Interface (MUI) add-on
NTFS Encryption Utilitiy
Offline Files and Folders
OpenFiles
Performance Log Manager
Remote Desktop
Scheduled Tasks Console
Security Template Utility
Taskkill
Tasklist
Telnet Administrator
Provides support for multi-processor systems (2 or 4 CPUs), Dynamic Disks, Fax
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Posted by Ileen of Katharine Gibbs School - New York on February 14, 2003
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