Difference between Windows XP Professionla and Home version
By: Staff
Date: November 15, 2007
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Some say that the Pro version is better than the Home version (more reliable, more stable, faster…), they are absolutely false. You do not believe here are few examples:
- Windows XP Pro and XP Home strictly have the same core and the same system files.
- Windows XP Home is quite as stable and rapid that the Pro version.
- The Pro version has functionalities which are useful only in company.
Differences between XP Pro and XP Home:
Here the functionalities present in the Pro version which are not in the Home version:
Remote Desktop: XP Home has only the remote assistance, which goes only on invitation. Remote Desktop of XP Pro makes it possible to be connected to a machine without invitation.
IIS: XP Home is not provided with the waiter Microsoft IIS. This lack is filled very easily with the hundreds of Web servers free and FTP (Apache, EasyPHP, Xitami, Pi3Web, Sambar …)
Note that certain Microsoft products (like IIS or SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition) will refuse to be installed on the Home version. It is not due to a technical limitation, but to a strong will of Microsoft to force the companies to buy the Pro version. (On the other hand one can install SQL Server 2005 Express train Edition without problem on XP Home).
Management of the files network in disconnected mode: That allows, under XP Pro, to work on a division SMB of another machine even when the network does not answer.
Waiter SMB authorizing more than 10 simultaneous users: XP Pro does not impose any limit on the number of user connecting himself simultaneously on a file server SMB.
SNMP: Windows XP Pro has SNMP (which makes it possible a central waiter to collect statistics on the performance of the network).
Support multiprocessors: XP Home supports one processor, but support Hyper threading.
Coding of the filing system (EFS): This functionality misses in XP Home, but it is easily filled by software like TrueCrypt, which has the good taste to be more reliable than the EFS of Windows. (Try to recover a file quantified EFS after a reinstallation of Windows XP Pro…)
Fine management of the rights of access to the files: absent from XP Home. Useful in company when there is full with different user’s network.
Centralized administration (management by field, management of groups of rights, distant installation, etc):
Useful in company for a centralized management of all the stations.
Profiles itinerant: allows finding its Windows profile while logout itself on other machines of the field.
Conclusion:
The Pro version is more expensive, more complex with functionalities without any interest for a private individual, and to finish, NOT: XP Home does not hold 20% of its band-width. Only the Pro version does it, but even there that does not want to in any case to say that the flow is attached to 80%. That wants right statement that in the event of congestion (and only in the event of congestion), 20% (with more) of the band-width will be reserved for certain priority protocols
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