never wrong Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 I AM RUNNING WINDOWS XP AT THE MOMENT AND I WANT TO KNOW IF I CAN INSTALL WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL OVER THE TOP OFF THIS OR DO A COMPLETE FORMAT ETC. sorry for shouting forget to take the caps off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XvanityX Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Yup you can, probably be best to do a complete format/reinstall. Why would you want to change though? There's hardly any difference between Home and Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savannah2 Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 The Home and Professional editions of Windows XP are nearly identical; the only differences are additional features found in the Professional edition that most likely won't appeal to home users. Includes extended support for security between multiple users on the same machine. XP Pro 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: Administrative Tools (in the Start Menu and Control Panel) Automated System Recovery (ASR) Boot Configuration Manager DriverQuery Group Policy Refresh Utility Multi-lingual User Interface (MUI) add-on NTFS Encryption Utilitiy Offline Files and Folders OpenFiles Performance Log Manager Remote Desktop Scheduled Tasks Console Security Template Utility Taskkill Tasklist Telnet Administrator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
never wrong Posted September 25, 2006 Author Share Posted September 25, 2006 Thank you both for your answers, I am having second thoughts now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr chris Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 I have Home on my laptop and Pro on my work machine... and for normal use there *is* no difference. Stick with Home - it's cheaper for a start! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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