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If XP Home and Pro are NOT so different, why is Home so unstable???

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NikPreviousAcct

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I work with XP Home and XP Pro every day at work. Customers call me asking for help fixing their internet connection and all I see with Windows XP is the Home version. Also, things I hear from people with Windows XP Home is that they're system is so unstable. Errors at random and quite often. People with Windows XP Pro (myself included) hardly ever have problems, if ever.

Am I just catching the negative side only of WindowsXP Home and the positive side only of WindowsXP Pro??

nik
 
You might be right, but I bet that the biggest problems are the users themselves. They probably install software they shouldn't and change things that they shouldn't.

 
I agree with PG people who use pro(2k or XP) for home computing generally have a better understanding of how to run their PC.
 
There is a FAQ on the differences. Read it.

As far as my thoughts: You are catching the bad side of this. If they werent having problems they wouldnt be talking to you.
 
my guess is you're getting a lot of users that are novice like previously stated. most people with home edition (majority of home users and novices, because home comes with most computers now days not professional) don't know too much about computers in general. people with pro are usually power users who know stuff, this is kinda a general statement but i believe it holds true.
 
Hmm
I have couple of buddies who got on the Dell deal, their systems came with XP Home, no problems for them. Problems that are arising is probably user error and then Microsoft 😀
 
I use XP Pro at work and XP Home Edition at home.

On nearly identical systems, they are both equally stable. Very stable. I have about 24 computers on the network that are Win2k SP3, 2 on Win2k SP2 and 3 on XP Pro. All in all, XP Pro has been more stable, but only in a couple of areas. I think that XP benefited a lot from service pack 1 and 2 for Windows 2000, if you review a lot of the fixes in SP3 for Win2k you see a lot of overlap with XP SP1 also.

Anyway.

Take a look at this web page:

Windows XP Pre-SP1 fixes

There are 271 fixes since XP was released. Looks like XP will be a lot more stable after SP1 which should be out by friday from what I read.
 
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