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Will this work on my machine?
As I've posted before I'm running and ancient laptop, 20Gig HD, 1.5 gig ram, Windows XP home.
Clearing out stuff at work I've come across some disks for XP Professional - will this run on my machine, and would I gain anything worthwhile by doing so? |
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It should work as it will be basically an 'upgrade' from XP-Home. I used XP-Pro for years but never used the Home so I can't really draw a comparison. Sorry.
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I've used both and there is not that much difference.
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As Harry has said, there's not a lot of difference. If you install an elderly copy of XP Professional, there will be hours worth of Microsoft Updates required to bring it up to date - I very much doubt it's worth the hassle
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Thanks guys, I'll give it a miss.
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Whereas the version you now have will have been patched over the years and be much safer.
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Even security updates for XP are supposed to be ceasing on the 8th April 2014 Over the years, I've used most of the different versions of Windows, both for business and pleasure, and XP has been the most stable I've ever had. It's not that long ago that I went into Sainsburys one Sunday morning just as they were opening - some of their cash registers hadn't been fired up and they were displaying the Windows XP Professional logo.
Suppose I'll have to upgrade to 7 or 8 in the not too distant future - then comes the hassle of finding all my software to reload.
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