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<blockquote data-quote="Planesdragon" data-source="post: 1658866" data-attributes="member: 11133">Hate to burst your bubble, but &quot;no, it doesn't.&quot;&nbsp; &nbsp;XP Home is XP Professional with some group management and intranet security programs removed. If anything, HOME would run faster than PRO due to the smaller ammount of services that are left on by default--and after optimization (i.e, turn off services, set your desktop how you want it, etc.), they'd both run just about exactly the same.&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp" target="_blank">Here's a page</a> which details the differences. (Yes, I know that WinXP-pro supports SMP while WinXP-Home doesn't... but no one in this thread has suggested wasting the money for a dual-processor system.)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Oh, and one more thing: processor swapping is good if you get a great motherboard and buy a sub-optimal CPU, intending to save money and upgrade in a year or so when prices drop. (I bought a new PC more than three years ago, and I can still buy a chip-compatable CPU today that would drop in and work.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Planesdragon, post: 1658866, member: 11133"] Hate to burst your bubble, but "no, it doesn't." XP Home is XP Professional with some group management and intranet security programs removed. If anything, HOME would run faster than PRO due to the smaller ammount of services that are left on by default--and after optimization (i.e, turn off services, set your desktop how you want it, etc.), they'd both run just about exactly the same. [url="http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp"]Here's a page[/url] which details the differences. (Yes, I know that WinXP-pro supports SMP while WinXP-Home doesn't... but no one in this thread has suggested wasting the money for a dual-processor system.) Oh, and one more thing: processor swapping is good if you get a great motherboard and buy a sub-optimal CPU, intending to save money and upgrade in a year or so when prices drop. (I bought a new PC more than three years ago, and I can still buy a chip-compatable CPU today that would drop in and work.) [/QUOTE]

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