Whats the diffrences in windows XP HOME EDITION and WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL?

Question

im thinking about upgrading is it worth it but mainly whats the diffrence

Answer 1

You wont notice much of a difference, but security wise Pro is better.

Answer 2

Pro is for Professional. Home is for kids. For more detials, check it out on the Microsoft's web site.

Answer 3

The main difference is that the pro version gives you the ability to log into a Windows (NT style) domain.  You don't normally need that at Home anyway.

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

Answer 4

Basically, you can't connect to a domain with home, and home doesn't include the RDC server.