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Old 05-01-2006, 07:01 AM   #7
Hivetyrant
Jack Burton
 

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Originally posted by shamrock_uk:
IIRC, XP Home has the rather nasty habit of treating local networks as being trusted and I don't think this can be changed. If you're on a massive LAN like a university this may not be desirable.

Also you lose access to any sort of decent permission management with XP Home - if you have multiple users using it and you need to keep some under lock and key (like kids) then I would go for Pro.
Very true, it is possible to use the home version effectively, but it takes a lot of hassle
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