This one is certainly going to open our eyes. The following is quoted from THIS news article. A German Computer magazine C'T (Heise) is describing in its current print issue how to change Windows XP Home to a Windows XP Professional version before install. The C'T magazine apparently found out that by changing 2 bytes in the installation file of Windows XP Home, it will install a Windows Professional. Some functions are missing, but Remote Desktop and User management and enhanced security features are present. Unfortunately the full story is written in German. If you know how to read and translate German to English, could you please post the translated instruction here? Thanks i_XpUser

Where is the link? Romans 12:21: "Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good." -=[The Hacker]=- 2 0 0 3 \\ \/ /\ \/ /\ \/ // <> <> <> /\__/\_ \/__/\_ \/__/\_

Click on the underlined THIS in my post above. It will take you to the source of this news. i_XpUser

The computer magazine c't describes in the current expenditure, how the Home edition transforms by a small manipulation into a Windows XP Professional. Such a conversion can be very meaningful for many, because Windows XP Home edition does without some important safety functions. It is probably not necessary to make a ' drilling out ' over a nachruestung with functions from the Professional version. It goes many more simply, because Microsoft provides on the installation CD already a nearly adequate XP Professional. The change of two bytes in an installation file with the help of the Registry editor produces a version, which installs itself afterwards as XP Professional. The advantages of an armament of the operating system are particularly in the safety area. Only with the professional version one can work without Admin rights, which prevents the most viruses and Trojaner to unfold on the system. "it remains unexplainable, why Microsoft did just with the Home version without such safety functions", so c't expert Axel Vahldiek. With XP Professional can be configured also user accounts and groups by far more simply. Also that access of the job PC to the domestic system by remote Desktop folds loud c't with the rigged system. To an adequate Windows XP professional are missing however some few functions. "is worth however alone because of the better virus and Trojanerschutzes", thus Vahldiek transferred Junk Internet Explorer, Get Firefox! You'll be happy you did.

So basically we wont find out unless we buy the magazine. Junk Internet Explorer, Get Firefox! You'll be happy you did.

Gee thanks Buzz. I didn't know you're fluent in German. What other languages do you speak/read/write? If you're bilinguqal, why not work for Condoleezza Rice? You'd be paid 50X over what you earn now, plus the rare opportunity to mingle with the world's dignities :-) i_XpUser

hehe... http://babelfish.altavista.com/ is my best friend.. ;) Thats what make me so fluent in almost every other language. Junk Internet Explorer, Get Firefox! You'll be happy you did.