Ok this may technically considered a rant, but i'm not bad mouthing The OS. I would just like to see if others agree with me.
The question i pose it that : Is XP Home Win9x NT or Win 2k lite? Home definetly suffers a split personality disorder. Meaning that it shares characteristics from 2k and 9x. First off it does indeed have a NT kernel, so that's one 2k similarity. Also it does support NTFS5, again a check under the 2k column. Next it does make use of the MMC, but some features are taken away from its 2k counterpart. Another 2k similarity, it provides you with the very handy disk management tool. It sure does beat the hell out of using FDISK right? A big similarity is the fact that you can use the Recovery Console, now this is a feature that was introduced w/2K. And another aspect which makes this OS similar to 2k is that you can access most of the menus and programs can be accessed in home as you did in 2k. Lastly, Home also includes the administrative tools folder in the control panel. You won't find that in 9x! To keep this short, i'll stop my list here. But there are alot more features which are similar to 2K.
Now here are some differences from 2k that XP Home has. First of all where is the Winnt folder!?!? Home stores all it's system files in the windows folder, just like Win9x. Next, although Home does support NTFS file system, how come you can't set folder/file permissions!?!? The only permissions you can set are those that a similar to those of 9x. Also on user accounts, there are only TWO that's right only TWO types of user accounts!!! That being Administrator and Limited access. Which is rather lame in my opinion. Although Home's security is much better then 9x! Remember how in 9x if you didn't have a password? No problem just hit cancel and have full access over everything. Another contrast would be that in Home you cannot create groups, which leaves your network with alot to be desired. And what's this, you can use the setup.exe file to begin the installation process, this is so win9x (but also to set the record straight, you can also go into the i386 folder and use winnt32 to begin the installation process i.e. win2k). I could probably go on for about another good hour or so, but no one will probably not even read this far down. And if you are reading this far down, then i appreciate that you took time out to read this post.
I still have a few questions about Home. One is the fact that does home use ERDs?? The Rdisk command does not work, and the Windows backup utility is missing from my system tools folder. And lastly, does anyone still use FAT16 for their file system?
Verdict : I think that XP Home is more of a Wink 2k Pro Lite rather then a Win9x NT OS. If anyone has anymore input on the topic feel free to share your info,opinions, or views. And the last question is for all the XP Pro users, is it identical to 2K!?!?
The question i pose it that : Is XP Home Win9x NT or Win 2k lite? Home definetly suffers a split personality disorder. Meaning that it shares characteristics from 2k and 9x. First off it does indeed have a NT kernel, so that's one 2k similarity. Also it does support NTFS5, again a check under the 2k column. Next it does make use of the MMC, but some features are taken away from its 2k counterpart. Another 2k similarity, it provides you with the very handy disk management tool. It sure does beat the hell out of using FDISK right? A big similarity is the fact that you can use the Recovery Console, now this is a feature that was introduced w/2K. And another aspect which makes this OS similar to 2k is that you can access most of the menus and programs can be accessed in home as you did in 2k. Lastly, Home also includes the administrative tools folder in the control panel. You won't find that in 9x! To keep this short, i'll stop my list here. But there are alot more features which are similar to 2K.
Now here are some differences from 2k that XP Home has. First of all where is the Winnt folder!?!? Home stores all it's system files in the windows folder, just like Win9x. Next, although Home does support NTFS file system, how come you can't set folder/file permissions!?!? The only permissions you can set are those that a similar to those of 9x. Also on user accounts, there are only TWO that's right only TWO types of user accounts!!! That being Administrator and Limited access. Which is rather lame in my opinion. Although Home's security is much better then 9x! Remember how in 9x if you didn't have a password? No problem just hit cancel and have full access over everything. Another contrast would be that in Home you cannot create groups, which leaves your network with alot to be desired. And what's this, you can use the setup.exe file to begin the installation process, this is so win9x (but also to set the record straight, you can also go into the i386 folder and use winnt32 to begin the installation process i.e. win2k). I could probably go on for about another good hour or so, but no one will probably not even read this far down. And if you are reading this far down, then i appreciate that you took time out to read this post.
I still have a few questions about Home. One is the fact that does home use ERDs?? The Rdisk command does not work, and the Windows backup utility is missing from my system tools folder. And lastly, does anyone still use FAT16 for their file system?
Verdict : I think that XP Home is more of a Wink 2k Pro Lite rather then a Win9x NT OS. If anyone has anymore input on the topic feel free to share your info,opinions, or views. And the last question is for all the XP Pro users, is it identical to 2K!?!?
