XP Home - Stability?
 

I understand that XP Home has always been a bit unstable.
Is that still the case?

G.

Also, does XP Home support a home network (i.e. not domain based).

XP Home is stable. Yes, it supports peer-to-peer networking.

You can also use XP Home on domain networks. See the last entry here.

I've been running both Home and Pro since they came out and both have been very stable - not quite as bombproof as Linux*, but as good as NT3.5/4/Win2k and far better than Win 9x/Me. It also seems better at surviving an application crashing on it than 2k, which occasionally dies in sympathy (Microsoft Money is a particularly good Win2k killer :rolleyes: ).

In my experience many (possibly most) problems blamed on the OS are due to cheap hardware and/or dodgy drivers rather than the OS itself - even the blue-screen king Win Me is fairly stable on a good quality box. It's not better than 'fairly' though :) I wouldn't say Pro was any more stable than Home, but I guess that it's more likely to be run on a low-budget cheap-hardware games box which might make it appear to be more unsable.


* in seven years of using assorted flavours of Linux I've never seen a kernel panic :ok: