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Originally Posted by navin XP home is derived from Windows 98/98SE and XP Pro is derived from Windows NT/2000. |
This is not true.. Both Win XP Home and Pro are the result of combination of 98 & NT kernels and taking the best of both.
XP Pro has the following in addition to what XP Home has:
* 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.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p...choosing2.mspx