Bruce,

thanks for the additional information!

Regards,
Armin

>>Simon,
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>>>Thanks for the reassurance on that. As a matter of interest what do you gain by upgrading to XP Professional ?
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>>If you mean upgrading from home to prof., have a look at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing.asp
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>>This should give you an overview of the two editions. Basically prof. is more suitable for business use.
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>In addition to the site's issues, there are a few other differences, one I list here:
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>From some testing here, XPPro can see entire domains and sub-domains - which means I can use it to RAS in the same way as NT or 98 with a NIC, but without an added NIC on XP Pro (or more to the point, it has a full NIC built-in). The Home version has no full NIC built-in, and can only see a primary domain, but not any sub-domains, without adding a NIC. We were puzzled at first by this, but testing confirmed it, and the info at the MS site seems to support this as well.
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>The upshot is that if you're using XP to work from home and access a network, you may as well get the Pro version, there's little point in trying to cut corners with the Home edition.