Xp Home or XP Pro?

cavillas · Apr 03, 2007, 13:47:32

I have a query. I can use either XP Home or XP Pro. At the moment I have XP Pro installed and am quite happy with it. Does anyone know whether XP Home is faster than XP Pro and/or any benefits of one over the other. I have checked on numerous sites concerning this but there is no definitive answer and I was wondering if the combined knowledge and experience of Idnetters have any idea.

Lance · Apr 03, 2007, 13:59:57

I don't know about speed differences but I would expect them to be minimal.

If you are an advanced user you won't be able to live without the "advanced" features in XP Pro, else you will find Home does the job.

I would suggest that if you are happy running XP Pro at the moment, that you save yourself the bother and stick with it.

Rik · Apr 03, 2007, 14:01:47

I second that, Lance. Pro would definitely be my choice and I have never noticed a speed difference between Pro and Home.

AvengerUK · Apr 03, 2007, 15:17:59

Home and pro have very slight differences - Pro has more functionaility - so id stick with that

cavillas · Apr 03, 2007, 16:19:38

Many thanks for all your help. I think I will stick with Pro. Now should I use Visual Studio 2003 Enterprise or Visual Studio 2005? Ar'nt I a pest.

Rik · Apr 03, 2007, 16:39:32

On that one, I'll have to pass, Cav.

cavillas · Apr 03, 2007, 16:46:56

The only reason is that my son has given me both and I would like to do some programming for my pocket PC with pocket windows 2003. It was Navman pin 512 from Morgancomputers at £98, what a bargain and they still have some left -- no this is not an advert just a bit of info.

Lance · Apr 03, 2007, 19:33:04

I would be inclined to go with 2005, cavillas. This is because, with each release Microsoft have brought improvements to the developing environment and in some cases, improvements to the actual coding itself. But it depends on which you find easier to use - why not try one and then the other for a while to get a feel for both. After all, the code itself should be pretty much transferable between the two.

Lance

RobMc · Apr 03, 2007, 20:37:46

yep, vs 2005 would be my choice. I've done pocketPC development using vb.net 2005 and it's so much easier to develop and deploy than 2003. Unless there is some real pressing need to use vs 2003, I'd go with vs 2005.

By the way the three most noticeable differences between XP home and Pro are as follows:

Only Simple File Sharing is available in XP Home
IIS is not included with XP Home
An XP Home PC can't join a Domain

To be honest non of these are show stoppers unless you are in a business environment.

Rob.