XP Home or XP Pro?

I am building my first computer and was wondering which OS I should
use. . .Windows XP Home or XP Pro?. . . .some folks at work said XP
Pro is more stable than XP Home. . .has anyone else heard this?. .
..thanks,

JMMach wrote:
If you plan on networking, then go with PRO

Why?


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"k. robinson" wrote in message
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I am building my first computer and was wondering which OS I should
use. . .Windows XP Home or XP Pro?. . . .some folks at work said XP
Pro is more stable than XP Home. . .has anyone else heard this?. .
.thanks,





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PRO just gives a few extra power toys and stuff. If you are a true
home user then XP Home should do nicely.


On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:07:53 -0500, k. robinson
wrote:

I am building my first computer and was wondering which OS I should
use. . .Windows XP Home or XP Pro?. . . .some folks at work said XP
Pro is more stable than XP Home. . .has anyone else heard this?. .
.thanks,

They are equally stable, the major difference is that PRO can join
a domain while Home is limited to a 5 member peer to peer setup.
Get PRO if you need to connect to an at work large network, otherwise
Home is fine for home users.

"Harry" wrote in message
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PRO just gives a few extra power toys and stuff. If you are a true
home user then XP Home should do nicely.


On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:07:53 -0500, k. robinson
wrote:

I am building my first computer and was wondering which OS I should
use. . .Windows XP Home or XP Pro?. . . .some folks at work said XP
Pro is more stable than XP Home. . .has anyone else heard this?. .
.thanks,

"AlienZen" wrote in message
. ..
"k. robinson" wrote in message
...
I am building my first computer and was wondering which OS I should
use. . .Windows XP Home or XP Pro?. . . .some folks at work said XP
Pro is more stable than XP Home. . .has anyone else heard this?. .
.thanks,

Neither. In your case, (building your own PC) use Windows 2000.
The reason may not be of much value right now, but in the future, if you
ever
scrap this new PC and build another one, you will have to A)Convince M$ to
let
you use XP on another machine, or B) Buy another license to use XP, thanks
to
XP's registration process.

You can easily remove XP from one system and install it on another. You will
not have to convince Microsoft of anything, just explain what you have done
and they will give you your new code to activate, unless you have an OEM
version :-)



I'm not one to pirate software, however, I feel that if I buy a copy of an
OS,
and install it on a PC, then later sell off all the components and build a
new
PC, I should be able to reuse my OS. For that reason alone, I never
recommend XP
to anybody.

Flame at your leisure,
Mike

Actually, I just installed my old copy of XP (not OEM) on my new computer
.... new processor, mobo, hard drive, everything ... and the routine internet
activation worked just fine without even having to speak to Microsoft.

Wayne

"John E. Carty" wrote in message
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"AlienZen" wrote in message
. ..
"k. robinson" wrote in message
...
I am building my first computer and was wondering which OS I should
use. . .Windows XP Home or XP Pro?. . . .some folks at work said XP
Pro is more stable than XP Home. . .has anyone else heard this?. .
.thanks,

Neither. In your case, (building your own PC) use Windows 2000.
The reason may not be of much value right now, but in the future, if you
ever
scrap this new PC and build another one, you will have to A)Convince M$
to
let
you use XP on another machine, or B) Buy another license to use XP,
thanks
to
XP's registration process.

You can easily remove XP from one system and install it on another. You
will
not have to convince Microsoft of anything, just explain what you have
done
and they will give you your new code to activate, unless you have an OEM
version :-)



I'm not one to pirate software, however, I feel that if I buy a copy of
an
OS,
and install it on a PC, then later sell off all the components and build
a
new
PC, I should be able to reuse my OS. For that reason alone, I never
recommend XP
to anybody.

Flame at your leisure,
Mike

Neither. Go get Windows2000 Pro
"k. robinson" wrote in message
...
I am building my first computer and was wondering which OS I should
use. . .Windows XP Home or XP Pro?. . . .some folks at work said XP
Pro is more stable than XP Home. . .has anyone else heard this?. .
.thanks,

Why not also get a P3 500 while your'e at it. And you could thow away
that 17" monitor and downgrade to a 15"?

In my book XP is just as stable as 2000 ever was, indeed XP handles
problems alot more gracefully than 2000 (BSOD). also XP seems to be
faster than 2000 and carry less "bloatware" around with it.

..... now DOS ... theres a stable platform, lets go for that !

: o )

Harry


On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:16:30 -0400, "neopolaris" . wrote:

Neither. Go get Windows2000 Pro
"k. robinson" wrote in message
.. .
I am building my first computer and was wondering which OS I should
use. . .Windows XP Home or XP Pro?. . . .some folks at work said XP
Pro is more stable than XP Home. . .has anyone else heard this?. .
.thanks,

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:36:59 -0400, Harry wrote
(in message ):

In my book XP is just as stable as 2000 ever was

I've had user profiles become corrupted on XP quite a few times. That's
something that I had not experienced on 2000. I've also had a few "hard
freezes" on WinXP which didn't happen in Win2k. (Shell frozen: can't even
pull up task manager, although I believe the underlying OS was still running
....not that it helped much.)

Hmmm Interesting. Cant say I have had either of those happen to me or
anyone in our company (35 of us)

Harry

On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 9:26:17 -0400, Singha_lvr
wrote:

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:36:59 -0400, Harry wrote
(in message ):

In my book XP is just as stable as 2000 ever was

I've had user profiles become corrupted on XP quite a few times. That's
something that I had not experienced on 2000. I've also had a few "hard
freezes" on WinXP which didn't happen in Win2k. (Shell frozen: can't even
pull up task manager, although I believe the underlying OS was still running
...not that it helped much.)