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Windows XP Home Edition vs Professional

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Features only found in XP Pro:== Features only found in XP Pro ==== Networking ==Computers running Windows XP Home Edition cannot join corporate domains. For this reason, features that require machine accounts within a domain, such as Group Policy, are not available in Windows XP Home Edition.== Hack to Change Windows XP Home to Pro ==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.  1. Copy the root directory and the i386 directory of the WindowsXP CD to your hard drive.2. Extract the Bootsector of your Windows XP CD. You can use BBIE to do this.3. Click START–>RUN–>REGEDIT4. Highlight HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE5. Click FILE–>LOAD HIVE and select the Setupreg.hiv fileThis 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: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Homekey\ControlSet001\Services\setupdd7. Edit the DEFAULT key and change the following values: 01 to 00 02 to 008. Change the name to the value HOMEKEY to anything.9. Locate the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Homekey\ControlSet001\Services\setupddEdit the DEFAULT key and change the following values: 01 to 00 02 to 0010. Highlight HOMEKEY and select FILE–>UNLOAD HIVEYou 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.
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