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OS Information   Name Windows XP   Family Microsoft Windows   Logo Microsoft Windows XP Logosvg   Screenshot Windows_XPPNG<!-- Do not change unless you have read "Wikipedia:Software_screenshots"! -->   Caption Screenshot of Windows XP Service Pack 2   Developer Microsoft   Website Windows XP: Homepage   First Release Date October 25 2001   First Release Url http://wwwmicrosoftcom/presspass/press/2001/aug01/08-24WinXPRTMPRmspx   Release Version 512600 Service Pack 2c (SP2)   Release Date September 2007   Release Url http://blogstechnetcom/backroom/archive/2007/08/09/microsoft-windows-xp-professional-service-pack-2c-releaseaspx   Source Model Shared Source   License MS - EULA   Kernel Type Hybrid Kernel   Support Status Supported (only with Service Pack 2)1   Other Articles <ul><li> Features New To Windows XP <li></ul><ul><li> Development Of Windows XP <li></ul>
	url	http://wwwmicrosoftcom/presspass/press/2001/feb01/02-05namingprmspx
	title	Microsoft Announces Windows XP and Office XP
	year	February 5 2001
	accessdate	2006-05-13
	work	Microsoft PressPass
	publisher	Microsoft

  url http://wwwitworldcom/Comp/4063/060118xpsp3/pfindexhtml
  title Analyst: No effect from tardy XP service pack
  year January 18 2006
  author Jeremy Kirk
  publisher ITworldcom



The most common editions of the operating system are Windows XP Home Edition, which is targeted at home users, and Windows XP Professional, which has additional features such as support for Windows Server Domain s and Two Physical Processors , and is targeted at power users and business clients. Windows XP Media Center Edition has additional multimedia features enhancing the ability to record and watch TV shows, view DVD movies, and listen to music. Windows XP Tablet PC Edition is designed to run the ink-aware Tablet PC platform. Two separate 64-bit versions of Windows XP were also released, Windows XP 64-bit Edition for IA-64 ( Itanium ) processors and Windows XP Professional X64 Edition for X86-64 and PowerPC processors.

Windows XP is known for its improved stability and efficiency over the 9x versions of Microsoft Windows . It presents a significantly redesigned Graphical User Interface , a change Microsoft promoted as more user-friendly than previous versions of Windows. New software management capabilities were introduced to avoid the " DLL Hell " that plagued older consumer oriented 9x versions of Windows. It is also the first version of Windows to use Product Activation to combat Software Piracy , a restriction that did not sit well with some users and privacy advocates. Windows XP has also been criticized by some users for security vulnerabilities, tight integration of applications such as Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player, and for aspects of its default user interface.

Windows XP had been in development since early 1999, when Microsoft started working on Windows Neptune , an operating system intended to be the "Home Edition" equivalent to Windows 2000 Professional. It was eventually canceled and became Whistler, which later became Windows XP. Many ideas from Neptune and Odyssey (another canceled Windows version) were used in Windows XP.


EDITIONS


The two major editions are Windows XP Home Edition, designed for home users, and Windows XP Professional, designed for business and power-users. Other builds of Windows XP include those built for specialized hardware and limited-feature versions sold in Europe and select developing economies.

Windows XP Professional offers a number of features unavailable in the Home Edition, including:

• The ability to become part of a Windows Server Domain , a group of computers that are remotely managed by one or more central servers.


• A sophisticated Access Control scheme that allows specific permissions on files to be granted to specific users under normal circumstances. However, users can use tools other than Windows Explorer (like cacls or File Manager), or restart to Safe Mode to modify access control lists.


• Remote Desktop server, which allows a PC be operated by another Windows XP user over a Local Area Network or the Internet.


• Offline Files and Folders, which allow the PC to automatically store a copy of files from another networked computer and work with them while disconnected from the network.


• Encrypting File System , which encrypts files stored on the computer's hard drive so they cannot be read by another user, even with physical access to the storage medium.


• Centralized administration features, including Group Policies, Automatic Software Installation and Maintenance, Roaming User Profiles, and Remote Installation Service (RIS).


• Internet Information Services (IIS), Microsoft's HTTP and FTP Server.



Windows XP for specialized hardware


Microsoft has also customized Windows XP to suit different markets. Six different versions of Windows XP for specific hardware were designed, two of them specifically for 64-bit processors.

; -based workstations. This edition was discontinued in early 2005, after HP , the last distributor of Itanium-based workstations, stopped selling Itanium systems marketed as 'workstations'. However, Itanium support continues in the server editions of Windows.

; and supports X86-64 extension of the Intel IA-32 architecture. x86-64 is implemented by AMD as "AMD64", found in AMD's Opteron and Athlon 64 chips, and implemented by Intel as "Intel64" (formerly known as IA-32e and EM64T), found in Intel's Pentium 4 and later chips.

: Microsoft had previously supported other microprocessors with earlier versions of the Windows NT operating system line (including two 64-bit lines, the DEC Alpha and the MIPS R4000, although Windows NT used them as 32-bit processors). The files necessary for all of the architectures were included on the same installation CD and did not require the purchase of separate versions.

; PCs. Originally, it was only available bundled with one of these computers, and could not be purchased separately. In 2003 the Media Center Edition was updated as "Windows XP Media Centre Edition 2003", which added additional features such as FM radio tuning. Another update was released in 2004, and again in 2005, which was the first edition available for System Builder s. Many of the features of XP Media Centre Edition (including screen dancers, auto playlist DJ, and high end visual screen savers) were taken from the Windows XP Plus! packages. These were originally shipped with Windows XP (version 1) as add ons to increase the users experience of their Windows XP machine.

; s, the Tablet PC Edition is compatible with a pen-sensitive screen, supporting handwritten notes and portrait-oriented screens. It cannot be purchased separately from a Tablet PC without an MSDN (Microsoft Developers Network) subscription.

; es, kiosks/ ATMs , medical devices, arcade video games, point-of-sale terminals, and Voice over Internet Protocol ( VoIP ) components.

; customers. It is intended for those who would like to upgrade to Windows XP to take advantage of its security and management capabilities, but can't afford to purchase new hardware.


Windows XP Starter Edition

Windows XP Starter Edition is a lower-cost version of Windows XP available in Thailand, Turkey, Malaysia, Indonesia, Russia, India, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Mexico, Ecuador, Uruguay and Venezuela. It is similar to Windows XP Home, but is limited to low-end hardware, can only run 3 programs at a time, and has some other features either removed or disabled by default.

According to a Microsoft press release, Windows XP Starter Edition is "a low-cost introduction to the Microsoft Windows XP operating system designed for first-time desktop PC users in Developing Countries ." It is seen as an effort to fight unauthorized copying of Windows XP and possibly the spread of GNU/Linux -based systems in Asia and South America .


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url http://wwwmicrosoftcom/presspass/newsroom/winxp/WinXPStarter-materialmspx   publisher Microsoft   title Microsoft Windows XP Starter Edition Image Gallery   date September 29 2004






url http://wwwmicrosoftcom/presspass/newsroom/winxp/08-10WinXPStarterFSmspx   publisher Microsoft   title Microsoft Windows XP Starter Edition Fact Sheet   date January 2006



  url http://wwwmicrosoftcom/presspass/newsroom/winxp/WinXPStarterFSmspx
  publisher Microsoft
  title Microsoft Windows XP Starter Edition Fact Sheet
  date October 2006




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url http://managementsiliconcom/government/0,39024677,39131434,00htm   publisher Siliconcom   title Windows XP-lite 'not value for money'   date June 28 2005



  url http://seattlepinwsourcecom/business/205093_msftfolo24html
  publisher Seattle Pi
  title Europe gets 'reduced' Windows
  date December 24 2004


  url http://wwwredmondmagcom/news/articleaspEditorialsID=6625
  publisher Redmondmagcom
  title European Windows Called 'Windows XP Home Edition N'
  date March 28 2005


  url http://newsbbccouk/2/hi/business/4388349stm
  publisher BBC
  title Microsoft and EU reach agreement
  date March 28 2005




NEW AND UPDATED FEATURES

See Also: Features new to Windows XP



Windows XP introduced several new features to the Windows line, including:

• Faster start-up and Hibernation sequences


• The ability to discard a newer Device Driver in favor of the previous one (known as ''driver rollback''), should a driver upgrade not produce desirable results


• A new, arguably more user-friendly interface, including the framework for developing themes for the desktop environment


• '' Fast User Switching '', which allows a user to save the current state and open applications of their desktop and allow another user to log on without losing that information


• The '' ClearType '' font rendering mechanism, which is designed to improve text readability on Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and similar monitors


• '' Remote Desktop '' functionality, which allows users to connect to a computer running Windows XP from across a network or the Internet and access their applications, files, printers, and devices


• Support for most DSL modems and Wireless Network connections, as well as networking over FireWire




USER INTERFACE

Windows XP features a new task-based Graphical User Interface . The Start menu and Search Capability were redesigned and many visual effects were added, including:

• A translucent blue selection rectangle in Explorer


• Drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop


• Task-based sidebars in Explorer windows ("common tasks")


• The ability to group the taskbar buttons of the windows of one application into one button


• The ability to lock the taskbar and other toolbars to prevent accidental changes


• The highlighting of recently added programs on the Start menu


• Shadows under menus (Windows 2000 had shadows under mouse pointers, but not menus)





url http://wwwmicrosoftcom/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/display_change_visual_effectsmspx   publisher Microsoft   title Change Windows visual effects   date Unknown



  url http://supportmicrosoftcom/defaultaspxscid=kbEN-US294770
  publisher Microsoft
  title Computer Slows When You Click Multiple Icons in Windows XP
  date January 15 2006



The default wallpaper, Bliss , is a BMP photograph of a landscape in the Napa Valley outside Napa, California , with rolling green hills and a blue sky with Stratocumulus and Cirrus Cloud s.

The Windows 2000 "classic" interface can be used instead if preferred. Several third party utilities exist that provide hundreds of different visual styles. In addition, another Microsoft-created theme, called " Royale ", was included with Windows XP Media Center Edition, and was also released for other versions of Windows XP,⁴ but has since been removed from the original Microsoft New Zealand package.⁵ The Luna theme uses 4 more megabytes of RAM than the "Classic" Windows theme, so Classic can possibly improve performance on lower-end systems. A matching black theme by Zune can also be downloaded for free from the Zune website⁶ (''see Energy Blue '').

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Like previous versions, Windows XP also has a Command Line Interface (CLI), Cmd.exe , for Executing single commands or for running scripts called '' Batch File s''. The syntax for the language of the Windows XP CLI is not as well-documented by Microsoft in the built-in ''Help'' as many GUI features. A simple list of the basic commands is available at the command prompt by typing "help"; and somewhat more complete command syntax may be found by typing "command_name /?" for any command.

The Out-Of-Box Experience leads users through a guided setup process to register, create users accounts, and register for the Internet.⁸


SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

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System requirements for Windows XP Home and Professional editions as follows:⁹






In addition to the Windows XP system requirements, Service Pack 2 requires an additional 1.8  GB of free hard disk space during installation.¹⁰


SERVICE PACKS AND SUPPORT

Microsoft occasionally releases Service Pack s for its Windows operating systems to fix problems and add features.


Windows XP RTM

Support for Windows XP without a service pack (RTM) ended on September 30, 2004.¹¹


Service Pack 1

Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows XP was released on September 9 , 2002 . Its most notable new features were USB 2.0 support and a ''Set Program Access and Defaults'' utility. For the first time, users could control the default application for activities such as web browsing and instant messaging, as well as hide access to some of Microsoft's bundled programs. This utility was first brought into the older Windows 2000 operating system with its Service Pack 3. Service Pack 1a was later released to remove Microsoft's Java Virtual Machine as a result of a lawsuit with Sun Microsystems .

LBA -48, which allowed the OS to view and use HDD space above 128  GiB , was enabled by default.

Support for Windows XP Service Pack 1 and 1a ended on October 10 , 2006 .¹²


Service Pack 2

was added in Service Pack 2.]]
Service Pack 2 (SP2) (codenamed "Springboard") was released on , which provides a general overview of security on the system, including the state of Anti-virus Software , Windows Update, and the new Windows Firewall. Third-party anti-virus and firewall applications can interface with the new Security Center.

Microsoft released a minor update to SP2, called SP2c. The update fixes the issue of the lowering number of available product keys for Windows XP. It only applies to OEMs and Windows XP Professional.


Service Pack 3




url http://wwwpcworldcom/resource/article/0,aid,117427,00asp   publisher PC World   title Full Disclosure: Your Take on Windows' Worst Irritations   date October 2004







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