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bardicverse on 09 July 2009
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Words Of Wisdom said:
bardicverse said:

Ok.

Windows 2000 Home vs Professional

Windows XP Home vs Professional

Windows Vista Ultimate vs all lower versions.

Having been an IT support guy since the 90s, I've seen a lot more frequent problems with the cheaper Windows OS versions than with the top of the line ones. It's a common thought that when you pay for the most expensive version, you're not paying for the features, you're paying for stability.

I have yet to see or hear of a stability difference between XP Home and Pro.  Considering I've been using XP Home since it released, it's pretty interesting to hear someone tell me it's less stable than Pro.

Tell me what frequent problems plague XP Home than are not found on Pro.

The problems have varied, but a common one was corruption of Windows Explorer (not to be confused with IE), also quite a few boot corruption issues - ntdlr.dll, etc. 

Have you been using a homebuilt or a Dell/HP? I've seen more of these issues with HP/Dell systems than people who  made homebuilt computers. Of course, having worked in gov't sectors, most of the computers are prebuilds, so the sampling stack is heavily from prebuilts.