Green dots blue dots

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Hi Bill

Yes, you are right. Blue for XP Pro and green for XP Home.

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"Bill Ridgeway" <info@1001solutions.co.uk> wrote in message
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> I've noticed that, on starting up and before the 'welcome' screen, there
> are a series of either green dots or blue dots. I have assumed that this
> was differentiated the Home edition and the Professional edition. Purely
> as a matter of curiosity, is that assumption right and if not why not?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bill Ridgeway
> Computer Solutions

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But if you have SP2 installed they will both be the same colour with no
difference between home and pro.
Joan

Bill Ridgeway wrote:
> Thanks. Well I'm so glad that little mystery is solved. It's been
> one of those unimportant but niggly queries. Next question! Why
> different colours? NO don't bother to answer that one!!
>

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Methinks your monitor needs a color adjustment
peterk

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"Mike Hyndman" <mike@tmphynd-bats-man.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 17:02:08 +0100, "Bill Ridgeway"
> <info@1001solutions.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>I've noticed that, on starting up and before the 'welcome' screen, there
>>are
>>a series of either green dots or blue dots. I have assumed that this was
>>differentiated the Home edition and the Professional edition. Purely as a
>>matter of curiosity, is that assumption right and if not why not?
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Bill Ridgeway
>>Computer Solutions
>>
> Blue? Green?
>
> I thought they were pink and red!
> MH
> remove -bats- to reply

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...and the same goes for Tablet PC etc. installations Joan.

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"Joan Archer" <archer_joan@NOSPAM.com> wrote in message
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> But if you have SP2 installed they will both be the same colour with no
> difference between home and pro.
> Joan
>
> Bill Ridgeway wrote:
>> Thanks. Well I'm so glad that little mystery is solved. It's been
>> one of those unimportant but niggly queries. Next question! Why
>> different colours? NO don't bother to answer that one!!