Tim Meddick wrote:

Referring to what others have said here concerning XP Home's "neutered"
feel when Home edition is compared to Pro edition. - I have found that in
many cases, the feature or function was not absent or barred, but simply
not enabled by default.

I guess M$ don't think Mr Average is going to dig that deep to restore
XP_Professional-edition-level-functionality.....
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Actually, from past reading (and redoing a Google search now), there is
a means of hacking the install of Windows Home so the Pro version gets
installed instead. That is, the Home and Pro install CDs have the same
content but which gets installed is some config issue (there's something
you can hack to make Home install as Pro). Use a Google search, like:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%2B"windows+xp+home"+%2Bpro+%2Binstall+cd +hack
to find:
http://www.technipages.com/hack-to-c...fessional.html

I haven't done this (since I have the Pro version) so I don't know if it
works and if you can use the product key from the Home version (i.e.,
the product you bought) or if you need to, ahem, "acquire" a product key
for the Pro version.