Would going from 2k to XP Home be a step down??

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MrWhiteUK

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I am very happy with 2k but am sick of the appearance and want somthing new but can't decide if XP Pro is worth the $ over the home version.
I have looked over the list of differences and dont notice anything I need, will I be missing anything going from 2k pro to XP home?

The main things I liked in 2k was the stability and the extra admin features, but if XP home has the 2k stability.

I mainly use it for coding (Java,VB,PHP/MySql) and a bit of audio jiggery pokery.
I'm a bit put off by all the built in apps, I like my 3rd party stuff too much, do they interfer much?

Thanks

p.s waiting for XP student liscense.
 
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bozo1

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The only "step-down" Home would be over W2K is that you lose the ability to run 2 processors if you ever decide to do that, you lose file/directory level security and the ability to join an NT Domain. That's about it.
 
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crazydave

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not sure if you can directly upgrade from win2k to winxp home... (without doing a clean install) since the direct upgrade to win2k pro is winxp pro. especially if you have ntfs on 2k, since xp home doesn't do ntfs...
 
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corkyg

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If you are running W2K, and it does everything you want it to do, then you really gain nothing by going to XP except a small loss in performance. That is what all the reviews in the current rags agree on.
 
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andrey

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Actually Windows XP Home has many advantages over Windows 2000 Pro. They include much faster boot up, system restore feature, nice looking themes, ability to configure multiple ips and configurations for the same network card, multimedia features (WM8 is definitely nicer than WM7, folder slide show is pretty neat too), plus many more.
 
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DaHitman

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<< Actually Windows XP Home has many advantages over Windows 2000 Pro. They include much faster boot up, system restore feature, nice looking themes, ability to configure multiple ips and configurations for the same network card, multimedia features (WM8 is definitely nicer than WM7, folder slide show is pretty neat too), plus many more. >>




Most of that is available for download and free as add ons to 2k, and the rest adds up to about $20 worth of features over 2k... I just dont get it.
 
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andrey

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What exactly is available for download?
Faster bootup and finally features such as hibernate and standby working correctly. I didn't know you can download that.

Themes? Don't even tell me about Windows Blinds, which will hog system resources more than anything else

Aility to configure multiple ips and configurations for the same network card?
Tell me, since I really would like to know if there is a program to do that.

System Restore? if you think Adaptec GoBack 3.0 is the way to go, you obviously have never installed it on your Windows 2000, especially if you have ZIP drive. Do yourself a favor and read F.A.Q on Roxio's website.

DaHitman, times change, as well as OSes. With your comments you just might want to stay at Windows 95a, but please don't ask why something is slow or why after installing beta driver you have no way to undo that.
 
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FUBAR

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Unless you've tried it and found that it doesn't work, you can configure multiple IP's on 2k... really easily in fact.
 
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Athlon4all

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<< Windows 2000 Pro cannot be upgraded to Windows XP Home, only Windows XP Pro >>

Yeah. XP Home can only be upgraded from 98(SE) or Me. XP Pro is needed in order to upgrade from 2k/NT4.
 
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