J. Clarke wrote:
Robatoy wrote:
On Dec 3, 10:18 am, "Lee Michaels"

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"Leon" wrote in message

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"Robatoy" wrote in message
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In a few words or less, what is the big difference between XP
Home
and Pro?
When I bought our last few computers from Dell they explained that
the Pro version offered more security over the Home version. They
especially pushed it for wireless lap tops.
XP Pro also supports multiple monitors, a must for me.
Yup, two monitors. I don't care much about security as the Windows
side of things will never go on-line. All it will do is mundane
tasks,
like Cutsheet and ShopBot software (but not to run the controller,)
although I will need an OS for that too.

.eCabinets mostly.

http://www.ecabinetsystems.com/

It's a funny thing but I've never had a machine that was provably
contaminated from an online source. Usually when there's malware on
the machine somebody took a file home on diskette to work on it, took
it back to work, and booted the machine with the diskette in the
drive.

The best thing you can do for security is go into setup and make sure
that the machine is set to _not_ boot from diskette.

It's not too common to find a relatively new machine with a diskette drive.