Windows XP Pro vs. Windows XP Home
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Friday Fun. Ok I just lost a bet with a co-worker, but I think there is something very fishy going on. Our WXP Pro disk was "lost" sometime back so a co-worker brought in his copy and I installed that on a new laptop. Thing was during the install it never asked me to join a domain or any network settings actually. It even has the "SEt up a home or small office network" option which my WXP Pro does not have, sounds more like Home t me. Also once installed and booted up it presented what I thought was the Windows XP Home login screen. The one where you can swap between different users with the cute little pictures and what not. Not the usual Windows XP Pro single login screen. So I bet that this was actually a Windows XP Home disc and not Professional. I then went into the System applet in Control Panel, with a big smug grin on my face, only to see it say "Windows XP Professional" and with the same build and version number as what is on my WXP Pro desktop. So this is all a bit confusing. Is there a version of Windows XP Pro out there that has the Home login screen and is not able to join domains and what not? Or is there a way to make Windows XP Pro masquerade as Windows XP Pro? Please say the latter, then the bastard won't get his coke and he owes me one :-D
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaMacbeth muttered: I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er DavidW wrote: You are totally mad. Nice.
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Friday Fun. Ok I just lost a bet with a co-worker, but I think there is something very fishy going on. Our WXP Pro disk was "lost" sometime back so a co-worker brought in his copy and I installed that on a new laptop. Thing was during the install it never asked me to join a domain or any network settings actually. It even has the "SEt up a home or small office network" option which my WXP Pro does not have, sounds more like Home t me. Also once installed and booted up it presented what I thought was the Windows XP Home login screen. The one where you can swap between different users with the cute little pictures and what not. Not the usual Windows XP Pro single login screen. So I bet that this was actually a Windows XP Home disc and not Professional. I then went into the System applet in Control Panel, with a big smug grin on my face, only to see it say "Windows XP Professional" and with the same build and version number as what is on my WXP Pro desktop. So this is all a bit confusing. Is there a version of Windows XP Pro out there that has the Home login screen and is not able to join domains and what not? Or is there a way to make Windows XP Pro masquerade as Windows XP Pro? Please say the latter, then the bastard won't get his coke and he owes me one :-D
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaMacbeth muttered: I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er DavidW wrote: You are totally mad. Nice.
If your machine is not a member of a domain, you get the same login screen and fast user switching options. If you want to join a domain, use the Network ID wizard on the Computer Name tab of the system properties. Sorry, looks like the bastard gets his coke after all. ;P
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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If your machine is not a member of a domain, you get the same login screen and fast user switching options. If you want to join a domain, use the Network ID wizard on the Computer Name tab of the system properties. Sorry, looks like the bastard gets his coke after all. ;P
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
Richard Deeming wrote: If your machine is not a member of a domain, you get the same login screen and fast user switching options Odd because my Windows XP Pro machine does not do that. If I take it off the domain it comes up with the normal Windows XP Pro login screen. When I installed it (from a guaranteed WXP Pro disc) there was a very big portion of the setup dedicated to connecting to the network and domain. But with this dodgy disc, none of that (and the network card is all there and fine.) Plus nowhere in any of the Network applets is there a Network wizard or anything to do with joining a domain. Everything is geered towards a normal Group network, not a Domain one.
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Richard Deeming wrote: If your machine is not a member of a domain, you get the same login screen and fast user switching options Odd because my Windows XP Pro machine does not do that. If I take it off the domain it comes up with the normal Windows XP Pro login screen. When I installed it (from a guaranteed WXP Pro disc) there was a very big portion of the setup dedicated to connecting to the network and domain. But with this dodgy disc, none of that (and the network card is all there and fine.) Plus nowhere in any of the Network applets is there a Network wizard or anything to do with joining a domain. Everything is geered towards a normal Group network, not a Domain one.
Paul Watson wrote: If I take it off the domain it comes up with the normal Windows XP Pro login screen. When you take it out of the domain, there should be an option under Control Panel -> User Accounts to "change the way you log in" (or words to that effect). Paul Watson wrote: nowhere in any of the Network applets is there a Network wizard Strange. It should be under the System Properties, on the Computer Name page. :confused: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;295017[^] Do you have an entry for "Local Area Connection" under Network Connections? Maybe Windows thinks it doesn't have a connection, so it can't join a domain.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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Friday Fun. Ok I just lost a bet with a co-worker, but I think there is something very fishy going on. Our WXP Pro disk was "lost" sometime back so a co-worker brought in his copy and I installed that on a new laptop. Thing was during the install it never asked me to join a domain or any network settings actually. It even has the "SEt up a home or small office network" option which my WXP Pro does not have, sounds more like Home t me. Also once installed and booted up it presented what I thought was the Windows XP Home login screen. The one where you can swap between different users with the cute little pictures and what not. Not the usual Windows XP Pro single login screen. So I bet that this was actually a Windows XP Home disc and not Professional. I then went into the System applet in Control Panel, with a big smug grin on my face, only to see it say "Windows XP Professional" and with the same build and version number as what is on my WXP Pro desktop. So this is all a bit confusing. Is there a version of Windows XP Pro out there that has the Home login screen and is not able to join domains and what not? Or is there a way to make Windows XP Pro masquerade as Windows XP Pro? Please say the latter, then the bastard won't get his coke and he owes me one :-D
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaMacbeth muttered: I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er DavidW wrote: You are totally mad. Nice.
I don't get the login screen unless I have defined more than 1 user.
