Home vs Pro

[exodus300]

I have decided that if and when I get XP, I am definitely getting Pro.

It appears to me that instead of putting extra stuff in Pro, they took half of it out of Home (if you get what I mean). [Thanks in advance|Hope I helped you]
Exodus300
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[GriffMG]

They didn't so much take it out, as hide it (literally in many cases) - I'm running XP Home, and most of the things I want are running on it!

regards Regards

Griff
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[fenris]

XP Home is missing the two way firewall that Pro has. XP home can only block incomming requests but lets everything out. XP can block both ways. Mind you I don't even use the firewall as it is not as informative as zonealarm and I have a hardware based router.

There is a policy editor (I can't remember the name) that doesn't come with Home, but you could get it off a friend and put it on.

Also Pro has the ability to network over firewire! There are probably a list of features, but for the average user they will not notice the difference except price.

Personally I choose to go with Pro, for the stupid reason that it has more stuff!

Regards

Troy Williams E.I.T.
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[newcitysue]

And only Pro has IIS. (While you USED to be able to tweak home to add IIS, I think Microsoft plugged the hole that enabled this. After I was forced to reformat my hard drive I was unable to get IIS to work in XP Home and had to upgrade!)