Home or Pro?

[Delboy :)]

Hello people,

I have XP Home and I was wondering is it really worth it to format my whole hard drive and put a clean install of XP Pro on my HD instead?

Would it make games and apps run quicker etc ... ?

Replies are very grateful!

- Delboy

 

[TheMajor]

I don't think it would make games and apps quicker.
If you already have Pro then I would just install it.
There are a few differences in Home and Pro..i don't know all of them. For example: Pro supports dual CPU and dynamic drive.

 

[beedubaya]

Pro is also more customizable, like you can lock certain features and make certain tweaks that you can't do in Home without extensive registry editing.

 

[OCC Fan]

i like pro, if you have home, stick with it. its not worth spendin another 100 sometin dollars for pro.

 

[Peter McFlight]

WIN XP Pro!

 

[Iron_Cross]

Pro is by far worth it. Especially with SP2. Now that I use Pro, I'll NEVER go back to Home.

 

[Circa219]

I heard there are some commands in pro that you can't use in home.

 

[Harper]

I prefer pro for the networking options. Really useful for me if I am changing the networks all the time.

I have lost count the number of times that I have been at a LAN party and you get some one with XP Home ; and the computer refused to do any thing with the new network that we are trying to connect it too.

The other reason why i need PRO at home is that I need to connect to the office SBS server from time to time via VPM.

XP Home is many there for the standard end user that really does nothing more that keep is computer in the same envorment.

 

[Elbatrop1]

If you have a home network, then it might be helpful to use Pro. Most of the extra functionality in Pro has to do with networking.