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Hyperthreading and XP Home

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by moboking, 2005/01/11.

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    Because XP Home does not support multiprocessors PCs, does that mean it will not be able to use Hyperthreading in Intel processors?

    Also, and this is a surprise to me: XP Home does not support multi monitors! What the hell is that? So what happens when I have 2 video cards in a Windows XP Home machine?

    How about this: you cannot dual boot with XP Home! So if you want to have two copies of XP Home on one system, you cannot. I have never used XP Home personally so I cannot vouch for the truth of these limitations. Any one here can confirm these?
     
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    Christer

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    Several OEM computers with HT processors are sold with XP Home.

    I found Win XP Home Edition: A Bad Choice Gets Worse from which I quote:

    I'm not sure about this but if the Graphics Card (a single one) supports dual monitors then XP Home should be happy about that but I don't know about two separate cards.

    I have heard of people trying to do a clean reinstallation of XP but didn't follow the correct procedure. They eneded up with an unintentional dual boot, the old and the new installation.
    I don't believe that XP Home shouldn't be able to dual boot with another copy of XP Home. It may be different if it is the same copy but that would be down to product activation.

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