XP Home vs. XP Professional

[Doom3]

What is the difference between Windows XP Home edition and Windows Xp Proffesional Edition? Which one is better for computer games? And why does XP Proffesional cost more?

 

[David Lindon]

There isn't really a difference and it shouldn't affect your games.

 

[Lord Kalthorn]

The difference wouldn't makes any difference to games at all.

XP Pro is more a Networking Computer than Home; good for Workstations, Laptops and other high use Networking things. For most users the price difference is not worth the advantages of Pro - unless you want to set up a a Network.

 

[Norman1]

Thank's David, will try this

 

[aharvek]

It should not make much of a difference for games but...

Windows XP Professional has an EFS (Encrypting File System) which XP Home does not. It can join a domain, apply detailed GPOs (Group Policy Objects) and the more advanced Remote Desktop which is like a single sesson Terminal Services.

Multi-Processor support, ASR, Dynamic Disk Support, integrated fax functionality, File-level access control, Roaming profiles, The user interface for IPSecurity (IPSec), SNMP, Simple TCP/IP services, SAP Agent, Client Service for NetWare, and Network Monitor.

 

[Computergen1]

Not that big a difference in statistics but a big difference in Price!

 

[Tommy Boy]

I wouldn't pay the extra price for xp pro unless you are a business with a network or something like that and require the extra features that xp pro gives you. xp home is just fine for the normal user

 

[IAntDemo]

Multi-Processor support, ASR, Dynamic Disk Support, integrated fax functionality, File-level access control, Roaming profiles, The user interface for IPSecurity (IPSec), SNMP, Simple TCP/IP services, SAP Agent, Client Service for NetWare, and Network Monitor.

lol u copied that off a site omg lol

 

[alvino]

Just wait until Longhorn comes out.

 

[prosser13]

I got XP Pro over XP Home because I could get either free with this deal so I picked XP Pro. It hasn't crashed yet, and I don't really have anything bad to say about it apart from that SP2 isn't really any good, but that affects XP Home too.