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Windows 7 Home vs Professional

I have a customer with 4 computers – 3 windows 7 home premium and 1 vista home premium

They are sharing files and printers; primary share of a Sage ACT database from 1 win 7 home workstation.

The problem is they a constantly locking up and freezing, results in constantly rebooting.

My question:
Will it be justified to upgrade all stations to Windows 7 Professional?
OR ADD
One more computer with windows 7 pro as a server to hold the database and files and shares 1 USB printer.

Gerry

Jaroslav Mraz

Hi,

Windows home have limit to maximum 5simultal conections. You can try one pro it will work.

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John

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rindi

The locking up and freezing must be die to some other reason. It definitely has nothing to do with Windows 7 Home Premium. On that OS you can have a maximum of 20 concurrent connections (apart from that having more connections wouldn't cause freezes or reboots). Besides, also Windows 7 pro has the same limitations in respect to the maximum number of connections. One of the main differences of pro and home is that you can add Pro to an Active Directory Domain, which you can't with home. But to use a domain you would also need a real server OS from m$.

So you really should troubleshoot for other reasons why the systems lookup, like bad hardware, overheating, malware unpatched software etc.).

glaurin

ASKER

Thank You Thinkpad_user
It's great to get a 2nd opinion to confirm that I am going down the right track.
Gerry

John

@glaurin - Thanks for the update and I was happy to help.

.... Thinkpads_User