Chapter 1: Intro

This chapter introduces you to the different versions of XP. They are Professional, Home Edition, Media Center Edition, Tablet PC Edition, and the 64-Bit Edition.

A common question people ask is about the differences between Home and Pro. Here are some big ones:

1. Domain membership


2. Support for two CPU's


3. NTFS or print permission


4. Dynamic disks


5. EFS


6. IIS


7. Support for RIS

Tablet Edition is basically Pro with some touchscreen functions and applications.

This chapter also covers the changes that came with Service Pack 2. The Security Center was added, ICF replaced by Windows Firewall, Automatic Updates improved, pop-up blocker built in to IE6, and more. To see if you have SP2 you can look in System Properties, or run "winver.exe".

Then it goes over Workgroups and Domains. The major differences in security and management. For instance when you log on locally the authentication process is done by the local security subsystem, but if you log on to a domain then the domain controller has to do this.

Further about logon there is a service called Secondary Logon. It allows you be logged in as a user with a limited account and start applications with different credentials.

That's all I'm pulling out of chapter one for you.