Mergatroid wrote:

That's a nice list, however, the most compelling difference may be
that XP Professional allows you to upgrade your old OS and keep all
your installed programs intact. Reinstalling everything is quite a
pain.

This is not accurate. You can use either Home or Pro to upgrade an older
operating system. Here is a link to information about that:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/h...ng/matrix.mspx

And some information about installing XP (Home or Pro, it doesn't
matter):

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm - Repair Install
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html - Clean Install

Malke
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