need a cheap deal on windows xp home edition

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as the title says, i need a cheap deal on windows xp home edition. i am very low on money now that my hours got cut for the training for the holiday hires. i am getting a new pstwo so i can play my gta: san andreas and inuyasha secret of the cursed mask (coming in tomorrow). my xbox is not letting me burn my cd's onto it (legit cd's, not burned ones), so i am going to put them on my computer and transfer them to my xbox. i just got an ethernet hookup to connect my computer to my xbox. i have the xbox music mixer to work with it, but i need XP to use it and i only have ME.
 
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The cheapest way to get a legit OS license is an OEM unit. This usually must accompany a motherboard or hard drive purchase but if someone you know is going to buy a drive soon...
 
[quote name='epobirs']The cheapest way to get a legit OS license is an OEM unit. This usually must accompany a motherboard or hard drive purchase but if someone you know is going to buy a drive soon...[/quote]

i am not looking for anything illegal. i don't know anyone that is getting a drive soon and i cant afford a new hard drive or a motherboard. so those options are out for me probably.
 
i'm not a student, i just have a job that pays crap right now, so i am very poor with only getting 10 hours because of those hires.
 
I personally would suggest against XP Home. It's nearly as bad an OS as ME. It crashed on me so many times. Installed XP Pro, never had a problem since.
 
I got the OEM version of XP Home about 2 years ago on eBay for $50. I had ME before, which was god-awful. I've never had one problem or crash with XP Home.

OEM's are fine. Instead of the big packaging, it comes with just the CD and the manual shrink-wrapped (or that's how mine came). Mine was intended for a Dell (which I happened to have anyway). Dunno if that matters or not? But OEM's are definitely cheaper than buying the full boxed version in the store.
 
[quote name='P0ldy']I personally would suggest against XP Home. It's nearly as bad an OS as ME. It crashed on me so many times. Installed XP Pro, never had a problem since.[/quote]

You had something else wrong.. it wasn't your OS. XP Home is just as stable as XP Pro. The only differences in Pro are enhanced remote access, higher security, and the ability to integrate easier with Windows Server.
 
I'm no computer expert, but all I know is Home gave me countless problems that never happened with the same programs, same registry tweaks, same everything with Pro.
 
[quote name='Cornfedwb'][quote name='P0ldy']I personally would suggest against XP Home. It's nearly as bad an OS as ME. It crashed on me so many times. Installed XP Pro, never had a problem since.[/quote]

You had something else wrong.. it wasn't your OS. XP Home is just as stable as XP Pro. The only differences in Pro are enhanced remote access, higher security, and the ability to integrate easier with Windows Server.[/quote]

I concur
 
[quote name='Rodego'][quote name='Cornfedwb'][quote name='P0ldy']I personally would suggest against XP Home. It's nearly as bad an OS as ME. It crashed on me so many times. Installed XP Pro, never had a problem since.[/quote]

You had something else wrong.. it wasn't your OS. XP Home is just as stable as XP Pro. The only differences in Pro are enhanced remote access, higher security, and the ability to integrate easier with Windows Server.[/quote]

I concur[/quote]

Word of the day calendar.

I also concur. In fact, there's very little difference between Home and Pro. I forget what they are off the top of my head, although I know one is remote accessing or something like that (availible on Pro, not Home)...
 
[quote name='P0ldy']I personally would suggest against XP Home. It's nearly as bad an OS as ME. It crashed on me so many times. Installed XP Pro, never had a problem since.[/quote]

Considering how minor the differences are, I'd have to say there was something very wrong with your XP Home install. I use XP Pro because I do a lot of networking tasks and self-training for work that requires Pro but those differences are extremely unlikely to be a source of crashes.
 
[quote name='P0ldy']I'm no computer expert, but all I know is Home gave me countless problems that never happened with the same programs, same registry tweaks, same everything with Pro.[/quote]

How was your installation done? If it was performed as an upgrade install that is very likely the reason. I strongly recommend against upgrade installs whenever possible. It may be more convenient but almost always inherits problems from the existing system, especially since the oolder 9x versions of windows are extremely subject to greater problems as they age. Doing an upgrade install is like choosing to have severe defects incorporated in your genome.

Another thing to consider is driver maturity. By the time you switched to XP Pro many of the problem drivers were being replaced with more stable versions better suited to XP.
 
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