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  2. List of features removed in Windows XP - Wikipedia

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    The Microsoft Sound, as well as Windows 2000's startup and shutdown sounds under the names Windows Logon Sound and Windows Logoff Sound respectively were removed in favor of the new startup and shutdown sounds introduced with Windows XP. It is no longer possible to save or delete schemes under the Appearance tab of Display Properties.

  3. Shutdown (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Windows XP shutdown dialog box Windows 11 power menu, opened from the Start menu To shut down or power off a computer is to remove power from a computer's main components in a controlled way. After a computer is shut down, main components such as CPUs , RAM modules and hard disk drives are powered down, although some internal components, such ...

  4. List of features removed in Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    This feature was available from Windows 95 up to Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. The File Types tab allowed users to change the file associations for various types of files. It allowed configuring which application would open when a user clicked on a certain type of file, or allowed manually defining a new file extension, defining/editing ...

  5. Windows XP - Wikipedia

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    The first, Windows XP 64-Bit Edition, was intended for IA-64 systems; as IA-64 usage declined on workstations in favor of AMD's x86-64 architecture, the Itanium edition was discontinued in January 2005. [57] A new 64-bit edition supporting the x86-64 architecture, called Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, was released in April 2005. [58]

  6. Features new to Windows XP - Wikipedia

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    With Windows XP, the Start button has an updated appearance and is larger, making it faster to mouse over to it and click it.To help the user access a wider range of common destinations more easily from a single location, the Start menu was expanded to two columns; the left column focuses on the user's installed applications, while the right column provides access to the user's documents, and ...

  7. Terminate-and-stay-resident program - Wikipedia

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    Windows Me does not allow a computer to boot into a DOS Kernel by shutting down Windows Me; thus TSRs became useless on Windows Me. The Windows NT series (including Windows 2000 , Windows XP , and later) replaced DOS completely and run in protected mode or long mode (later 64-bit versions only) all the time, disabling the ability to switch to ...

  8. Windows Support Tools - Wikipedia

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    Windows Server 2003 Support Tools includes 70 different tools. [3] For instance, WinDiff is a GUI tool for comparing files and folders. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] NetDiag is a CLI tool for diagnosing network problems. [ 6 ]

  9. Virtual PC - Wikipedia

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    Windows XP Mode (XPM) [37] [38] is a virtual machine package for Windows Virtual PC containing a pre-installed, licensed copy of Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3 as its guest OS. Previously, both the CPU and motherboard of the host had to support hardware virtualization, [ 39 ] but an update in early 2010 eliminated this requirement ...