No, however you can upgrade from Windows XP Home Edition to Windows XP Professional to get Remote Desktop. You can use Windows XP Home Edition as the client for accessing your Windows XP Professional computer running Remote Desktop.

Yes, both Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Professional have the built-in Internet Connection Firewall. The steps to turn on the firewall are identical. You might not be logged on as an administrator. You must be logged on as an administrator to turn on Internet Connection Firewall. When you first set up your Windows XP computer, the procedure guides you through the process of establishing an administrator account and password.

Windows XP Home is designed as an upgrade for Windows 9x/Me and therefore ships with the same type of consumer features found in Windows Me. The biggest difference is processor support: Windows XP Home will support only one processor, while Professional supports two. I have a full and detailed list available regarding the differences between the two editions available, however: Use this showcase to determine which version is for you.

MBSA does not flag local user accounts with blank passwords for computers running Windows XP using simple file sharing (includes computers running Windows XP Home Edition and computers running Windows XP Professional that are not joined to a domain and that have simple file sharing enabled). By default, these computers do not allow accounts with blank passwords to log on to the computer remotely over the network or for any other logon activity except at the main console logon screen.

Windows XP comes in Professional and Home versions. Servers will also come out, but they are still in beta testing.

Microsoft recommends Windows XP Professional for the education environment. Windows XP Home Edition is a limited subset of Windows XP Professional and does not take advantage of the extended capabilities around desktop management, mobility and multi-processor support. Windows XP Professional includes ALL of the benefits of Home Edition plus: Greater security, including the ability to encrypt your files and folders, to protect your sensitive data.

Localized versions are now available for Australia, Austria, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

You cannot log on to a Pro Kiosk computer using Remote Desktop or pcAnywhere; Pro Kiosk only supports fingerprint authentication.

Students living in the residence halls (Towers, Dadisman, Boreman, Arnold, Stalnaker, Pierpont, and Summit) should have Windows XP Professional for security reasons for connection to ResNet, WVU's Residental Network (internet connection). Windows XP Professional is much more reliable. Windows XP Media Center Edition is not recommended. Windows XP Professional was built to operate in a business-like environment utilitizing network technology such as ethernet and wireless connectivity.

Remote Desktop in Windows XP Professional uses Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) 5.1. Some of the new features added to RDP 5.1 are support for 24-bit color, audio redirection, smart card redirection, COM port redirection, local network printer redirection and disk drive redirection. Additionally, RDP 5.1 has better compression, improved performance, and virtual channel compression. Yes, the Remote Desktop Connection client supports Remote Desktop Protocol 5.1.

Access your digital media anywhere in the home with Windows Media Center Extender devices, using your Media Center PC as your entertainment hub. Or go mobile with Portable Media Center running Windows Mobile software and enjoy high-quality digital video, recorded TV, movies, music, and photos—anywhere, anytime.

Windows XP Home Edition does not support any version of IIS and cannot be made to run IIS by any reliable method. Windows XP Home Edition was not designed to be a development platform for Web-based applications. Upgrading to Windows XP Professional will allow you to install IIS 5.1 on your system so you can develop with ASP.Net. IIS 5.

Windows XP Professional will be available in 24 official localized versions in addition to English. In any version of Windows XP Professional, you can display, input, edit, and print documents in hundreds of languages. Users or administrators can set regional preferences, fonts, keyboard layouts, sorting orders, date formats, and so on.

Yes, Active Desktop is still there, but Microsoft has hidden it so users don't need to manually turn it on and off. If you add any Web content--or a GIF or JPEG image--to your desktop, Windows XP will automatically enable Active Desktop. If you turn off these features, Windows XP will turn off Active Desktop as well, behind the scenes. Microsoft needs to update MSN Messenger before you can exchange audio and video with those users.

Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, available preinstalled on Media Center PCs, allows you to pause and rewind live TV or radio, digitally record an entire TV series or program category, watch DVDs and videos, organize and play your music collection, and showcase digital photos. Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 makes it easier to access digital entertainment wherever you are. Here are some of the top features:

Windows XP is available in: German, Japanese, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Hong Kong, Chinese Simplified, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, French, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Dutch, Brazilian, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Russian, Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Portuguese, Turkish, and Greek.

Yes, the Niveus PC Remote Control is compatible with the Windows Media Center software and configuration files can be downloaded here. [ Link to; http://www.niveusmedia.com/support/PCremote.htm ]

No - But a Service Pack 1 release for Windows 98 will be available for download in the very near future and will include most of the bug fixes that were included in the Windows 98 Second Edition Release. Currently we have no clue as to what is causing this as it isn't happening for everyone. We are working hard to find out what is causing it. Update: On bootup the TSRQuery is taking far too long to load up for some people.

Yes, but the cure is worse than the problem. See my Windows XP Tips 'N' Tricks page for more information. This text is not present in the release version of Windows XP. Open the Start Menu, then Control Panel, and go to Add and Remove Programs. You will see an option to uninstall Windows XP. If you upgraded from Windows 2000 or Windows NT 4.0, there is no uninstall option, so you will need to do a full reinstall from scratch.

Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition were introduced with the release of Windows Server 2003 SP1, all sharing a common codebase. It is this common codebase that allows SP2 to provide updates to all versions of Windows Server 2003 and the Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. In August 2004, Windows XP Service Pack 2 was released for the x86 editions of Windows XP.

ServicePack 2 disabled this feature. You can enable it again by creating the following registry entry on the XP client: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server "AllowRemoteRPC" = REG_DWORD:1 Also make sure that the Windows firewall on the client is configured to allow File and Print sharing, as well as Remote Desktop.

Yes. Windows XP includes a technology called WPA (discussed above), which enforces a license Microsoft has been using for years (that is, you're supposed to buy one copy of Windows for each computer). However, there are ways in which you can minimize your costs. If you only need Home Edition, and you qualify for the upgrade version, buy two copies of that. Or use Microsoft's new Additional Family License (AFL) option to get 8 to 12 percent off the cost of the second installation.

Not legally, and I won't tell you how it can be done. The official policy is that each computer needs its own individual copy of the software.

How to eliminate the 'Remote Desktop Cannot verify the identity of the computer you want to connect to..." messages When using Remote Desktop Client 6.0 to connect to a Windows 2003 machine, some users have to enter credentials twice. Once before connection they will see Picture 1 below if they have Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 as the client or Picture 2 if they are using Windows Vista as the client. Answer: This is most likely the result of the way the remote server is configured.

Palm's testing shows Palm Desktop 4.0.1 to be compatible with pre-released versions of Windows XP Home edition. Users can easily install the latest release of Palm Desktop for Windows and synchronize their Palm-branded handheld to Palm Desktop or to Microsoft Outlook running on Windows XP Home Edition. Click here for more information on Palm Desktop for Windows and Windows XP compatibility.

There are several differences between Windows XP Home and Windows XP Pro. The main differences are that Windows XP Pro is better for networking as it has more features. For a full comparison of the differences, please click here.

No, Windows XP SP1 is already included in Windows XP Tablet PC Edition and Windows XP Media Center Edition.