Is this your first experience with XP Pro? Its been a while but I don't really remember anything visually different between Home and Pro other than the branding. There really aren't too many differences between them, anyways. The ctrl+alt+del thing ur talkin about is like how it does it in Win2000 Pro, right? I"m not sure XP Pro even uses that anymore. Like I said, its been a while so don't quote me. Maybe someone else here has more helpful knowledge.