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== Networking and Security ==== Windows XP Home Limitations in Networking and Security =='''Windows XP Professional allows up to 10 simultaneous file-sharing connections.'''<BR>'''Windows XP Professional allows up to 10 simultaneous file-sharing connections.''' Some advanced network components designed for corporate networks-the user interface for the IPSec manual configuration are not enabled in Windows XP Home Edition.== Hack to Change Windows XP Home to Pro ==== Hack to Change Windows XP Home to Windows XP Pro ==* ''This is untested. It may not provide all of the features available in XP Pro.''Convert and turn Windows XP Home Edition to Windows XP Pro Edition, from within the operating system without re-installation. This is a partial conversion due to limitations in the scope of the process. Enable the features found in Windows XP Professional on your Windows XP Home Edition installation with this hack. It will allow you to turn your Windows XP Home CD into a Windows XP Professional CD. * ''This will not provide all of the features available in XP Pro.''1. Copy the root directory and the i386 directory of the WindowsXP CD to your hard drive.Enable the features found in Windows XP Professional on your Windows XP Home Edition installation with this hack. It will allow you to turn your Windows XP Home CD into a Windows XP Professional CD. The hack doesn’t actually install and add in all the features from Windows XP Professional that Windows XP Home has disabled. It will not provide Remote Desktop Server or Group Policy Editor, since those are features that are actually absent from XP Home rather than just being disabled. 2. Extract the Bootsector of your Windows XP CD. You can use BBIE to do this.In Windows XP Home edition many advanced features are simply disabled. Of those not altered from within the code, many can be switched back on via the Windows registry. 3. Click START–>RUN–>REGEDIT#Open Registry Editor (regedit).#Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet00X/Control/ProductOptions, where ControlSet00X is the one with the highest number.#Delete the ProductSuite registry key.#Then, create a new DWORD value and named it as Brand.#Set the “Brand” value data as 0.#Reboot the system.#On boot up after the BIOS screen, press F8 to display Windows XP Startup Menu.#Choose Last Known Good Configuration (LNG) and hit Enter.4. Highlight HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINEWindows XP will start up as usual. After logging into the desktop, check the system properties to verify that it’s now Windows XP Professional.5. Click FILE–>LOAD HIVE and select the Setupreg.hiv fileYou can now burn the data on your hard drive to a CD to make a new Windows XP CD. Then use the CD to install Windows XP. Be sure to make the CD bootable. You can use the instructions here to help you do that.This file is located in the i386 folder. Use the one you extracted to your hard drive from your Windows XP CD.6. Locate the following registry key:=== Joining an NT Domain with a Converted Windows === HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Homekey\ControlSet001\Services\setupddAccording to the source, this hack WILL NOT allow the converted Windows to join an NT domain. According to user reports, after running Windows Update on a converted machine, it WAS able to join an NT domain. This may depend on the service pack level and what updates follow the conversion. 7. Edit the DEFAULT key and change the following values: 01 to 00 02 to 00 8. Change the name to the value HOMEKEY to anything. 9. Locate the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Homekey\ControlSet001\Services\setupdd Edit the DEFAULT key and change the following values: 01 to 00 02 to 00 10. Highlight HOMEKEY and select FILE–>UNLOAD HIVE You can now burn the data on your hard drive to a CD to make a new Windows XP CD. Then use the CD to install Windows XP. Be sure to make the CD bootable. You can use the instructions here to help you do that.