what is windows XP corporate?

[borat]

was just wondering what the difference between xp pro and corporate edition was as the corporate one doesnt seem to be pimped on MS's website. i heard it had a few things taken out of the core that kept its bloat to a minimum. is this true?
cheers

[Rob(QG)]

There is no difference other than the activation stuff.
Even then I think that is based on the CD-key you use.

[Jammrock]

What Rob said ... mostly.

Hmmm ... I've had mixed experiences with CD keys. I've had corp D keys fail on WinXP Pro CD's and vica versa. Sometimes they do work though. It's odd. But I think for the most part it just depends on teh CD key.

Jammrock

[Gurm]

No, there are actually a few files that are different.

But they're ALL related to activation.

- Gurm

[Fluff]

you need the corporate cd, which can be got from the place that the company bought it's licences from it costs about £20 quid. then you can use the corporate key..

(based on the assumption it works the same way as office xp corporate)

[UtwigMU]

You need the famous corporate CD that was out about a month before official release.

Then you need corporate keygen and XP CD key changer since the famous key that starts FCKGW-RHQQ2-.... or something like that was disabled with SP1.

You either apply different key from the getgo or change key to some other corporate key, before applying SP1. You can also slipstream SP1, but then I guess you need some other working corporate key from the getgo.

Just google for XP Corporate.

Since people were screwed by WPA getting off at say hardware problems or just spontanously and this involved loss of productivity, which with my case MS did nothing to help (no tech support), I highly recommend getting licensed CD and using corporate key.

IIRC you need to buy 5 licenses to be able to buy corporate version.

[Helevitia]

WinXP corporate is actually called WinXP RTM(release to manufacturer).

http://www.tweaktown.com has a good "article" about keygen, sp1, and other related issues.

Dave

[borat]

ok cheers guys, thanks for the response.

[agallag]

WinXP RTM just refers to the original version, before SP1. There were both corporate (without activation) and consumer (with activation) versions of the RTM code. There are now corporate CDs that contain SP1 built in. I'm not sure if they've released comsumer discs with SP1 though...

There are advantages to working for an enterprise with a Select license

[UtwigMU]

Well there are guides how to make bootable slipstreamed SP1 CD.

[MultimediaMan]

Sliptreaming and beyond...

Currently, the best article I've seen on Slipstreaming is here

There are also very cool ways of making a master image file and installing XP-SP1 with all updates with just two reboots (Sysprep/Filecopy, then reboot to the Installation Phase.) just like installing off of the Original CD. You can also do network installs that are wickedly fast over a 100Mb Network using most of the same tools.

Anybody interested in a tutorial on how to do a master image and an unattended network installation?

[Technoid]

Definitly

[DGhost]

as a clarification... RTM just refers to whatever build of the code was Released To Manufacturing... it doesn't really refer to any particular product, just the build. Since all the products came off the same code base (all they changed is compile time options - Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 did the same thing), they use different compile time scripts to compile in or out certain features (such as SMP support, IIS, Remote Desktop, etc).

yes, they have released SP1 versions of both Professional and Home to consumers. At least they released OEM versions, not sure about retail.

man, I remember when slipstreaming wasn't the cool, hip thing for people to do. *sigh* I feel so old sometimes...

[MultimediaMan]

No doubt, but 85 MB worth of Downloads for a clean install of Windows XP with SP-1 is a little over the top for even broadband users.

Update.exe is your friend.