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y2cRAck4 
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 Topic: Setup IIS on XP Home without Windows 2000
Posted: 24 September 2005 at 4:03am |
How do I setup IIS on Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
without Windows 2000?
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ub3rl337ch3ch
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Posted: 25 September 2005 at 8:49pm |
i seem to recall that xp home doesn't actually have iis. I'm not sure if it supports it either. then again, i may be completely wrong, and thinking about something else... i'm pretty sure though...
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Posted: 25 September 2005 at 8:52pm |
XP Home DOES NOT SUPPORT IIS.
This has been asked before and is posted on hundreds of other websites.
Check out www.google.com if you dont believe me.
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Posted: 25 September 2005 at 8:54pm |
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calm, count to ten...
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Posted: 25 September 2005 at 9:53pm |
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There's a couple of hacks on some of the xp sites for installing iis but it's difficult and error prone - registry hacks, etc..
Seems to hose up a lot of systems and the biggest problem is getting a copy of iis that isn't infested with spyware.
I think you're better off to get the xp pro upgrade.
Some early versions of Front Page came with PWS - personal web server.
Supported html and asp, but I think it was asp 2.0. WWF needs asp 3.0
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Posted: 25 September 2005 at 10:21pm |
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well xp home is supposedly exactly the same as xp pro, but with a couple of things changed around in the registry... that is, if you have one of the earlier versions before microsoft 'fixed' xp home so it was in fact different...
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Posted: 25 September 2005 at 11:28pm |
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XP Pro also has some additional networking utilities but basically home and pro have the same code base and kernal.
XP home really sucks though. My wife had a laptop with Mediacenter 2004
on it and it was based upon XP Pro so it had IIS. She got a new laptop
this year with Media Center 2005 on it and now it is based upon XP Home
so no iis.
I think Home came without IIS as a security precaution. To many people
would have had anonymous ftp running, not to mention having a mail
server available for the hackers looking for zombie machines.
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Posted: 26 September 2005 at 12:23am |
then there's the fact that ms loves their 'base' version and the 'advanced' (see: working) version, where stupd people who don't know better (or smart people who know nothing of computers) buy the base version, then pay twice the difference to upgrade to the advanced version when they realise they need something that the base version can't do...
windows xp, xbox360... 
the truth is out there...
then again, its fair enough to base mc on home, since, well, why would you need a web server for a media center?
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