Windows XP Home Edition vs Professional

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Windows XP Professional Edition has several features that are intentionally disabled in the Home Edition. Microsoft sells the Home Edition for a low price. Since Microsoft Windows contains a massive amount of uncharted code, including layers of legacy code going back to MS-DOS, it is easier for them to simply disable features in XP Home Edition rather than remove those features. Basically, Microsoft is greedy so they ask people to pay more in order to have all of the features enabled and available to the user.

Features only found in XP Pro:

  • Complete support for security between multiple users on the same machine.
  • Complete peer-to-peer networking capability
  • Ability to join NT domain or Active Directory
  • Windows 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
  • SMP Multi-processor support (2 or 4 CPUs)
  • Dynamic Disks
  • Fax.


 

 

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