does XP Home ED. Support multiple cpu's

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brett pledger

Anyone know if home edition supports multiple processors. i have a dual
pentium mobo i want to use for the wife but dont need to put profesional on
it just home ed. HELP...
 
No, sorry. You'll have to use Pro.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/whichxp.asp

"Which Edition Is Right for You?"

(I imagine that this is purely a marketing feature. I can't claim great
familiarity with the bits XP Home uses to support a hyperthreaded CPU,
like my P4 2.6c, but it appears that multiprocessor code may be involved.)

Bob Knowlden

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