Any reason to prefer XP Home to Pro for gaming?

[DaveSimmons]

Does XP Home include any features / bundled software / dehydrated Hudson Leick clones / whatever that are useful for a gaming partition and which are not included in XP Pro?

I'm finally going to be upgrading to a P4 soon and will probably set up my usual "work" and "play" OS partitions (chosen with Boot Magic) and I'm wondering if there is any reason not to use Pro for "play."

 

[manly]

Not that I'm aware. I'm not a Windows fanatic, but I thought Home was a proper subset of Pro as far as OS features are concerned.

Welcome to 2002, Dave.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Welcome to 2002, Dave.

Yeah, I know But my P3-933 with Win2K + W98SE (games) has been working great for about 2.5 years now so I haven't had much incentive to upgrade.

I finally want enough new parts (HD space, DVD burner, better video card) that I figure I might as well upgrade to something HL2/Doom3 ready despite the annoyance of reinstalling everything from Visual Studio to Unreal Tournament.

 

[dawks]

No, XP has features geared toward a corporate environment, such as the ability to join a domain, remote desktop, and a few other NON-Gaming related features.

Other then that however, they are the SAME OS.

 

[Canterwood]

XP Home is just a dumbed down version of XP Pro and wont run any better.
TBH, if you've got Win2K, there's not that much incentive to upgrade to XP Pro.
Win2K will run all newer games very well.