sign on screen

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Don wrote:

> I own 4 computers. 2 are xp professional and 2 are home
> edition xp.
>
> I downloaded for one of the computers on the aol net and
> it took me 19.5 hours at 34200 baud. Long time. Other 3 I
> ordered the disk and installed the service pak 2 in about
> 2 hours or little less. Bid difference.
>
> Queston. my sign on screens used to say WINDOWS XP
> PROFESSIONAL AND HAVE A BLUE PROGRESS BAR. Now it just
> says WINDOWS XP. word professional is gone. Date has
> changed at bottom of left screen too. On my other 2
> comptuters running HOME EDITION, they dont say HOME
> EDITION anymore. Now it just says WINDOWS XP and the
> progress bar has changed from green to blue like the
> professional bar. Is there a reason for all this. Outside
> of that, the system runs ok with some miner changes I had
> to make to picture viewing. Any idea anyone?
Hi

With 4 versions of XP now (Home, Pro, Media Edition, Tablet PC) I
guess they just got tired of having to handle the different startup
screens each time they needed to compile/link a new build of the
OS/Service pack. It takes one more thing out of the test matrix for
all the various builds, since it is now consistent across all
derivatives of Windows XP.

Keeping it simple is a way to save time and money.


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