Is 7 Professional more stable than Home Premium

I know with XP, Professional did not crash as much as XP home.

Is that the case with Windows 7?

 

I have used home premium and professional of windows 7 and have had any problems with it crashing. However, I did use home premium at the beginning and switched over to professional I think 2 years ago. So that may play a part.

 

I've got HP on one laptop and Pro on the other, neither has crashed on me before.

 

My dad and I both use Pro, my mom and brother use Premium.

None of our laptops have ever blue-screened.

 

The only driver locking up problems i experienced were on the pro version . Both should be equally stable though.

 

Both operating systems are based on the same kernel, so I would say that both are equally stable kernel-wise. Feature wise, the only way to determine if one is more stable over the other is to see if some feature on Professional, say Virtual XP is unstable and crashes frequently (which it doesn't), then you could say that Professional is more unstable. However, I have Ultimate on my computer and it's as stable as any computer I've seen. Rather than the OS causing the problems, it's usually some drivers or applications that conflict that result in bluescreens.

 

Windows 7 Pro and Ultimate have more features than Home Premium, but otherwise share most of the same code. I've never seen any credible suggestion that they are more stable than Home Premium, and I see no reason that they would be.

 

Windows itself is pretty solid no matter version you use.

It's typically hardware or third party software that can cause problems, such as bad graphics drivers. Those are independent of the type of Windows you have, and often times Windows is robust enough to instantly recover from when those things fail.

 

both os' are identical. that's why upgrading is a matter of some minutes, max. it just turns on some additional os features.

based on this, theoretical, if at all, professional would be less stable, less secure, less performant. if at all.

but i've yet to find one unstable windows installation, where the instability is not a non-microsoft fault. 3rd party is the root of instability about all the times.

 

Yes. There's no difference in stability between different version of Windows 7. Incidentally, no such difference existed for Windows XP, either.

 

As long its properly maintained then Windows 7 should be relatively stable regardless of which version you opt for. Architecturally they're the same, just some features and services turned on or off respectively.

Been using Home Premium on my ThinkPad for a while and haven't found it to be any different to Professional or Ultimate in that matter.

 

I've been running Pro since release without any issues. Any blue screens and hard lock-ups were almost certainly caused by my aggressive overclocking of the CPU.

 

I have been running Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise on my desktop for the past 2 years now and I have found it to be very snappy. The performance is on par with 7 and the thing I like most about the R2/7 kernel is its ability to remain stable under high workloads. R2 does not tend to lock up or "NOT RESPOND" as much as it did in the previous edition of Vista/2008. I experience less frequent application crashes, blue screens, or hard faults. One of the biggest problems with Vista's memory manager was Hard faults/sec. For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about... its more common term known as "thrashing". Vista did not seem to do a great job at holding an application in its own protected memory space. This caused leaks, which lead to problems. Ever since I have switched to the 7 kernel, life has been better.

 

I use both Win 7 Pro and Win 7 HP. I haven't encountered any stability problems so far. My G73 originally came with HP but I decided to switch it to Pro as it is my work machine. My M18x is still on HP and it's doing well and there are no issues whatsoever.

 

They are pretty much the same, just with certain features enabled or disabled as others have said. In fact a tool like ei.cfg http://code.kliu.org/misc/winisoutils/ (original source) will allow you to install any version from any install CD. Just select the one that has the features you need, and doesn't include the ones you don't need. There's a decent chart here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_editions#Comparison_chart - it's by no means comprehensive, but it's a good start. I went with Pro because it has a few things over HP that I required, like group policy ability and XP compatibility mode, and Ultimate didn't seem to offer anything useful that I would need in my day to day usage.

 

Thank you.

Any input, even if it verifies what other people are saying, is good.

 

Never noticed any stability differences across the version, just different features become unlocked the higher you go.