I'm sure that this topic is in the forum somewhere...scattered among many other posts. So I apologize in advance if I'm creating duplicate threads.

My question is:

is there really any fundamental differences between Windows XP Pro, Home and Media Center?

I mean, I realize that Media Center has a couple extra folders on it (one being for Tablet PCs and the other Media PC-specific) but is essentially Pro, is it not?

And aside from minor functionality differences, is there any real difference between Home and Pro?

Media Center is Pro without Domain capabilities. Home does not come with the Remote Desktop Connections and some other things. Media Center seemed slower to me than Pro, but only slightly.

I know that Professional supports multi processors.

Media Center can work with domain with tweaking registry offline or with sysprep -minisetup

I havn't see any performances difference between home, pro or mce ... Perfs depends on system, drivers, settings, programs ...

You can't make an unsolicited remote desktop request to an XP Home machine, which gets most people.

In Home, you havn't administration management utils (account, shared folder, group policy, command line scheduled tasks ...)

Yeah, that's what i figured.

thanks everyone.

it seems like mce ran a bit slower when i tested it, too....figured that was some of the extra services just eating up RAM.

My question is:

is there really any fundamental differences between Windows XP Pro, Home and Media Center?

And aside from minor functionality differences, is there any real difference between Home and Pro?

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