Win XP question
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sirmed
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My 2 cents.. is IF your going to network it to other computers at home or work.. Pro. does have a better shot at making that easy..... IF your only going to play at home and stand alone.. cruse the web..and mail... then home is fine... I have 4 boxes on Pro.. and 2 on wk2000.... the only ones that dont crash once in a while.. is the Linux box that does the web stuff. and is the traffice cop for the rest....
both should work just fine.. for ya...
good luck..... just get a lot of anti spam and anti virus software...and see if you can plug some of windows holes..... it is a piece of swiss cheese...
both should work just fine.. for ya...
good luck..... just get a lot of anti spam and anti virus software...and see if you can plug some of windows holes..... it is a piece of swiss cheese...
EJFan
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sirmed said:My 2 cents.. is IF your going to network it to other computers at home or work.. Pro. does have a better shot at making that easy..... IF your only going to play at home and stand alone.. cruse the web..and mail... then home is fine... I have 4 boxes on Pro.. and 2 on wk2000.... the only ones that dont crash once in a while.. is the Linux box that does the web stuff. and is the traffice cop for the rest....
both should work just fine.. for ya...
good luck..... just get a lot of anti spam and anti virus software...and see if you can plug some of windows holes..... it is a piece of swiss cheese...
what he said. the biggest difference is networking issues. no network, no need for pro.
my post serves no real purpose other than to show that there IS an echo in cyberspace.
If you don't know the differences between homa and pro stick with home. Pro is just a waste of money for you. Since it's a laptop you most likely will not be running any servers(web server, mail server, ftp server). Network is fine under home for a simple home network to share files printers and alike. I've worked at best buy and for all the networking functions for simple use home is great and you'll save your self alot of money. I can even bet that if you actually got on home and pro PCs you wouldnt even notice the difference except the boot up screen. Networking is non issue because home still has all the functions you need 
je404ucd
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I'm standing in for the IT Manager at a company and I talked with him about the differences between Home and Profession editions.
It isn't really so much a matter of networking to get you to go Pro edition. It is a matter of sharing resources.
1. Are you sharing documents?
2. Are you sharing printers?
3. Are you sharing a file server?
4. Are you sharing a high speed internet connection with other computers?
5. Are you going to use this laptop as a remote administrator for a network?
If the first and third questions are "yes" pay the extra $100 for professional edition. If the fifth question is answered "yes," I hope you don't need to ask about the difference in editions because I hope a system administrator would know what is needed. If you are only sharing printers, don't worry about it. Home edition is just as easy to share printers with.
It isn't really so much a matter of networking to get you to go Pro edition. It is a matter of sharing resources.
1. Are you sharing documents?
2. Are you sharing printers?
3. Are you sharing a file server?
4. Are you sharing a high speed internet connection with other computers?
5. Are you going to use this laptop as a remote administrator for a network?
If the first and third questions are "yes" pay the extra $100 for professional edition. If the fifth question is answered "yes," I hope you don't need to ask about the difference in editions because I hope a system administrator would know what is needed. If you are only sharing printers, don't worry about it. Home edition is just as easy to share printers with.
ReadyOne
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At this point, the only significant difference has to with security -- Home has the 'security' tab disabled on the properties page.
This is most obvious when you find (after running windows update) that there are a bunch of directories in C:\ which have long nonsense names using only the number 0-9 and letters a-f, and yo don't delete them because you don't have permission.
(There are a couple of programs you can get from the tool kit that will let you change the security attributes from the command line.)
All the rest of the networking stuff seems to run on Home OK now as long as you aren't using it as a Domain Controler or an IIS or SQL server...
This is most obvious when you find (after running windows update) that there are a bunch of directories in C:\ which have long nonsense names using only the number 0-9 and letters a-f, and yo don't delete them because you don't have permission.
(There are a couple of programs you can get from the tool kit that will let you change the security attributes from the command line.)
All the rest of the networking stuff seems to run on Home OK now as long as you aren't using it as a Domain Controler or an IIS or SQL server...
