Comparison of XP Pro and Home Edition

Some netizens will definitely ask, where is the difference between the Pro version and the Home version of Windows XP? In fact, XP PRO in the Windows XP family should be a foundation, the version of the reduced function is the HOME version, and the added version is MCE2005, tablet PC version.

Below we use specific facts to illustrate the differences between the versions of Windows XP:

HOME does not:

· Group Policy Editor "gpedit.msc"

· There is no backup function by default. ASR is not supported after NTBACKUP is installed.

· HOME can't join Microsoft's Active Directory, but can access resources.

·HOME does not support dynamic disks.

·The HOME version does not have IIS5.1 by default.

·The HOME version does not have the tasklist.exe command

·The number of concurrent connections in the HOME version is 5 (the relative XP PRO version is 10)

·HOME cannot be saved Accessing network credentials for other computer resources

· The HOME version cannot use EFS.

· The HOME version cannot disable "simple file sharing", which means that XP HOME and XP PRO versions always use the local GUEST account to treat access from the network. Of course, there is no way to set the "Security" tab page on the NTFS file system under normal mode.

·HOME version does not have

Backup Operators,

Power Users,

Replicator groups

These built-in groups

But the Restricted Users group has been added

This difference is followed by the above point. It is not recommended to use the "control userpasswords2" tool in the Windows XP home version. "Method: Start running the input "control userpasswords2" to pop up the user account. The reason is that this tool will access the Power Users group, but XP HOME does not have this group built in. There will be problems after the visit.