Robby (imported) wrote: Thu Sep 15, 2005 5:13 pm Hey dude!

If you are running XP Pro, you have more trouble than you think if you crashed again... Get some help and check that hard drive. You have some holes that need to be plugged. XP Pro is preemptive. You should not be crashing. At most, an application will shut down and the OS continues all other apps running at the time of disturbance.

Take care my friend,

I am sure the master hard disk is on its way out, it chugs like a shunter when I am working. As this is my final year at uni, I'll invest in a new drive and some more RAM.

Last night, I left the computer running a text editor, for an hour to watch a TV programme, but getting back, the computer had frozen. Even Alt Ctl delete didn't work, so I pressed reset, restart was normal.

I justed ordered a new computer. I ordered a Dell XPS 400. I did not, however, get the XP Professional Operating System option. I bought the media center option. I am giving my Dell 2100 to a friend. I may soon buy the Professional Operating System. I have not decided what I want to use.

My primary interest with the PC is working with photographs--old slides that I scan to the PC. I needed a better computer to do what I want to do. I had edited my slides from about 60,000 to about 1100. I may have about a hundred that I want to explore.

It must be the season. My five year old computer went down with a noise like a clothes dryer full of scrap iron. I now have a new one and I'm slowly getting my image files back from the old hard drive. Yes, I know, I was supposed to make back-up discs! Now, maybe I'll do it right. --FLO--

Blaise (imported) wrote: Sat Oct 08, 2005 1:42 pm I justed ordered a new computer. I ordered a Dell XPS 400. I did not, however, get the XP Professional Operating System option. I bought the media center option. I am giving my Dell 2100 to a friend. I may soon buy the Professional Operating System. I have not decided what I want to use.

The question of whether to select WinXP Pro over WinXP Home has been around since the operating system was still in beta. I think Microsoft's description of the two versions says it best, when it explains that XP Pro is for businesses concerned with security of their files, or home users who are interested in networking two or more machines.

I bought XP Pro for my main computer due to two features it has that XP Home does not: Remote Desktop and Remote Assistance. The first allows me to access my office computer from a customer's home, giving me access to files there. The second allows me, while in my office, to take control of a customer's computer, and do what needs to be done. Absent those two functions, I'd spend lots more time driving back and forth, or waste hours of time trying to talk a customer through a procedure.

WinXP Pro also features multiple-processor support and has file-encryption options that are lacking in WinXP Home. Since those two features would undoubtedly be totally unnecessary to most home users, why pay for them?

It's my opinion that the vast majority of home users will never need the added features of XP Pro, and paying the extra money for them would be wasteful. However, if you're still considering the merits of each, this link should be helpful:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/ ... sing2.mspx

Shortie,

That is the most helpful explanation I have read. Over the past few days, I had almost decided that this is the situation, but I needed confirmation.

At one time, the resmote access might have delighted me, but I have no real need for it. Thank you for sharing your advice and experience.

Ted