What's the differences between XP Home Edition And XP Professional ?

Answer 1

These are the features
Windows XP Home Edition
1 Contains basic support for security among multiple use
2 Built-in support for peer-to-peer networking, but only for up to five computers.
3 The backup utility 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.

also check these
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/wxpdifs.html
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=20536&DisplayTab=Articlehttp://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=20536&DisplayTab=Article

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Answer 2

Danny has WIndows XP and Office XP confused. Microsoft Office is a suite of office applications (excel, word, powerpoint, etc...) Windows XP is the program that makes the computer work and provides the user interface (point and click). The main difference between Windows XP Professional(the operating system) and WIndows XP Home edition is that Professional has included more powerful networking tools, advanced administrator applications and is geared more for business use.
Home edition includes more powerful movie making and advanced media software applications that the average homeuser would find beneficial.

Answer 3

Since Sp2 - very little. You CAN use XP home for home networking (not sure where that came from), but won't store passwords. Remote desktop is also a XP Pro feature. Basically apart from a handful of bells and whistles, XP Home with SP2 is identical in build - they had to do this to patch many of the security issues which were unique to the Home version

Answer 4

Home edition is more for home use (obviously). XP Professional has more complicated and more advanced programs (for example: you can do more with excel on the professional version). It also has more programs normally used in offices, or when starting new businesses.

Answer 5

pro has a better networking software included..
other then that there are few differences

Answer 6

There is a Comparison table at:

Answer 7

Costs more.