what is the difference between windows xp and xp pro?

Answer 1

win pro is for more advnced user and lets u acces more stuff and has mor features home edition is way more simple and is a little more scure since it resretics some stuff


Windows XP Home Edition

* Contains basic support for security among multiple users.
* Built-in support for peer-to-peer networking, but only for up to five computers.
* The backup utlity is not installed by default, but is included on the CD.

Windows XP Professional Edition

* Includes extended support for security between multiple users on the same machine.
* Better support for peer-to-peer networking, plus support for joining a "Windows NT domain."
* The backup utlity is installed by default.
* The Professional edition includes the following components not found in the Home edition:
o Administrative Tools (in the Start Menu and Control Panel)
o Automated System Recovery (ASR)
o Boot Configuration Manager
o DriverQuery
o Group Policy Refresh Utility
o Multi-lingual User Interface (MUI) add-on
o NTFS Encryption Utilitiy
o Offline Files and Folders
o OpenFiles
o Performance Log Manager
o Remote Desktop
o Scheduled Tasks Console
o Security Template Utility
o Taskkill
o Tasklist
o Telnet Administrator
* Provides support for multi-processor systems (2 or 4 CPUs), Dynamic Disks, Fax.

Answer 2

XP Pro, in my opinion, is more stable (doesn't crash as much). Also you can run IIS (internet information systems - a web server software that comes with windows) on XP Pro, and you can't run it on XP Home. There are I'm sure other features of Pro that don't come with Home but I'm not as familiar with all of them.

Answer 3

Xp home's key is for one computer only while xp pro's key can be used on several. So if you want to use it on more than one computer go with xp pro.

Answer 4

XP Pro has more networking additions, making it easier to integrate into a network at work.