Re: upgrade.

Viciii3_at_moc.tenirev
Date: 05/31/04 

Date: 31 May 2004 16:40:07 -0500

On Mon, 31 May 2004 11:54:52 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
<kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote:

>In news:15bff01c44736$388c4760$a301280a@phx.gbl,
>stevel <leighton_steve@hotmail.com> typed:
>
>> I tried to contact MS's Licensing agreement program about
>> this and got no response from them.
>> I have a friend that purchased XP home and wanted to
>> upgrade to Pro, does she have to bye an upgrade cd to pro
>> or is there a more cheaper way via MS.
>
>
>Sorry, there is no cheaper way. The upgrade version is her
>cheapest alternative.
>
>But is he sure she wants to do this? Is she aware that XP Home
>and Professional are identical except that Professional includes
>a few features (mostly related to security and networking)
>missing from Home? Most home users don't need and would never use
>these extra features and will see no benefits by upgrading.

 Sorry to *** in...I have been told that XP PRO does not suffer from
the extremely lame and irritating habit of XP HOME in regards to
"Limited" users being able to run programs installed.

 With XP Home it was a virtual cornucopea of "fixes", command line
entries, Administrator account changes to program security settings,
just to allow a "limited" user to run a program...and none of those
worked for some of my programs installed for the family to use
(Broderbund's Print Shop Deluxe, as an example). I ended up having to
make all user accounts "Administrator" type...and now I'm paying for
it with a clean XP install staring me in the face (I have a 17 and 13
year old...NEVER make anyone of these an Administrator!! LOL!).

 In talking with some friends it was stated that XP PRO allows an
administrator to EASILY set program access and "change" capability for
"Limited" user accounts. "Change" capability is a "must have" for any
users playing games (almost every PC game allows settings, saves etc.
for seperate users).

 Can you tell me if XP PRO really allows an administrator to easily
set program access for "Limited" account users?

  Thanks.

  Vic

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