Topic: XP Home or Pro for audio computer?

[trajhip2000]

Since the registry went bad on my audio computer (high-end Dell), I've decided to start fresh with a clean install of my audio software (Adobe Audition, Wavelab, Waves, Ozone etc). For audio purposes does it make a difference if I use either XP Home or XP Pro as the OS? My understanding is that XP Pro has a lot of additional stuff related to networking that I won't really need, but I don't know if it has any additional features that would make audio processing run better (or worse) than the cheaper XP Home. Thanks for any feedback.

Steve

[sygdwm]

doesnt really matter IME.

[Church-Audio]

I have had both Home and Pro I find home is faster there is less overhead with it pro is more for networking I dont see any other advantage and all the extra stuff pro has running in the background slows it down. Home has less overhead for sure. IMO

Chris Church

PS... In the same machine I had pro crash all the time I switched to home and it was all good.

Since the registry went bad on my audio computer (high-end Dell), I've decided to start fresh with a clean install of my audio software (Adobe Audition, Wavelab, Waves, Ozone etc). For audio purposes does it make a difference if I use either XP Home or XP Pro as the OS? My understanding is that XP Pro has a lot of additional stuff related to networking that I won't really need, but I don't know if it has any additional features that would make audio processing run better (or worse) than the cheaper XP Home. Thanks for any feedback.

Steve

[bdasilva]

start here.....    http://www.musicxp.net/

[Gordon]

I know this a old topic but I was about to post the exact same question.  any advantages or disadvantages to pro?  my computer buddy swears by it and hates home but he doesn't do the kind of editing etc that I do.

[phanophish]

For audio only stuff Home and Pro have very little difference.  Pro adds the capability to use a Windows domain (Mainly a Work Thing), to be able to network more than I believe 5 PCs together, and some more robust backup and management functionality.  At the core, they are the same OS, they just have different functionality enabled.  Hitting one of the optimization sites suggested above should be applicable to both systems and can help performance.  Typically if you are seeing crashes on either platform you have a driver or hardware problem.