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TheHappyFriar wrote on 2/14/2007, 1:33 PM
my dad has Vegas 4 on XP Home & it works the same as XP Pro & 2K Pro.

are you in the line for a new OS?
Former user wrote on 2/14/2007, 3:58 PM
I run Vegas 6 on Windows Home. Works fine.

Dave T2
fldave wrote on 2/14/2007, 5:15 PM
XP Pro was required for dual CPU motherboards, as XP Home was set up to only recognize a single CPU machine.

Then multi-core CPUs came out, and XP Home was able to see both and use both cores.

So if your motherboard has two (or four) physical slots for separate CPUs, XP Pro is probably what you need.

Then again, Microsoft may have reworked XP Home lately to see multi-CPU setups.

Edited: there are a few more features in Pro that most home users don't need, mainly corporate networking type things, I believe.
rmack350 wrote on 2/14/2007, 9:09 PM
Some useful things in Pro:

--a single-site IIS web server for testing web work
--Remote desktop connection - useful when you have several systems and don't want to get up out of your chair to use one that's across the room. Also known as terminal server
--more detailed permissions management

RDC could be useful to you if you have several systems and need to configure network rendering. IIS wouldn't be useful to Vegas but might be useful on a machine that you want to test rendered movies on. Permissions? more useful if you have more than one user in the office and want central storage on one XP machine.

Rob Mack
TheHappyFriar wrote on 2/14/2007, 9:54 PM
RDC can also be done with XP home. At least it works on my dad's dell laptop.

Remember when RDC was a "virus" years ago? :)