XP Pro / XP Home - Logical / Physical Processors

[Stephen C]

Seem to have lost my XP Pro disc so I think I may have to install XP Home. Just a little confused.. due to HT my processor comes up as 2 Logical processors and I'm not too sure if Home supports this? Perhaps I could be wrong and it's 2 physical processors that it does not support.

Would rather now first than finding out after I install.

Thanks for any help

Also is there many advantages / disadvantages of Home to Pro as I could hold out a few days till I can get another copy of Pro.

[Rave]

Nah, it's fine, Home supports Hyperthreading. You only need Pro if you have two physical processors. I assume that this means Home will also work with Dual Core chips, although I'm not sure.

As for the other differences between Home and Pro, I have no idea.

[Lee H]

Differences can be seen here ;

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/h...choosing2.mspx

basically it stems down to a few remote tools, admin stuff and multilanguage gubbins

[Mike Fishcake]

I'm sure Home doesn't include remote desktop capability, and there are definitely some other things about the way it handles users as well, but as for what they are I don't know.

[directhex]

windows xp is licensed per-socket, as of SP1 (i think).

so home will do dual core fine.

[Vimeous]

FYI Home does not support Domains making it unsuitable for company networks with proper Domain control setup.