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Good morning peoples,I'm thinking of biting the bullet and switching from 2000 Pro to XP when I do my hardware upgrade. The problem I have is I don't know whether to get the Home edition of the Professional package.What's the difference, anyway, besides one costs about twice the other? According to the Microsoft site, the Professional edition has a lot of networking and added security stuff in it, but I thought I heard someone also say that it had a lot of disk maintenance and utilities added that the Home Edition didn't include - and that the Home edition would not allow repartitioning of your hard drives.Is this right?Larry Steiner

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You can find comparitive evaluations on the web, using google. I went thru the same questions myself I picked Pro. Dave NelsonWP mainline, Oakland-Stockton: 100% complete;
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Ever since upgrading my XP Home to SP2, the 'Home Edition' logo does not appear on my booting screen. I wonder if the Home version is upgraded during installation of SP2...?

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