what is the diffrence between windows xp home and proffessional editions?

Question

i thout proffesional had microsoft office on it i was wrong and games work fine (if not better) on proffesional.

im a computer geek too so dont be afrad to get tecnical

Answer 1

Different between XP Home and XP Prof

XP Home User management, Limited to 2 security levels, no policies
vs
Full User Management and Security Policies

XP Home Limited to Workgroup network (unable to join a domain)

Xp Home has no security on sharing disks and folders, everybody has access to shared data

XP Home max 5 simultaneous file-sharing connections
vs
XP Pro 10 connections

XP Home has limited disks and folders security, made difficult to use. XP Pro has full disk/folder security based on User Management (and also Encrypting File System with NTFS file system).

XP Pro has Remote Desktop Access, Backup Program, ASR Automatic System Recovery but not XP Home.

The lack of the possibility to join a domain and the lack of securing a shared network resource will prevent the use of the XP Home edition in most office networks, even in configurations where Windows95/98/ME could be used.

Microsoft also has a page to describe the different between the 5 different versions of Windows

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/evaluation/compare.mspx

XP comparison guide
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/howtobuy/choosing2.mspx

Answer 2

I have both versions of Windows XP on my computers. Home is a little more limited in your choice's of fonts screen savers and a few other minor things that you can do with pro that you can do with windows. If you want some reading material on the matter just type that same question into a google search bar and you'll get tons of help on the matter, But honestly there is not that much of a differnce.
Have a good day, hope that helps

Answer 3

The pro.has more programs and is alittle faster.

Answer 4

one starts with w and one starts with p

Answer 5

uh.proffesional is good for storing files and working with cmd and memory.but i reconmmend home for games.cuz....................its cooler