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  2. Criticism of Windows XP - Wikipedia

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    Windows XP has been criticized for its vulnerabilities due to buffer overflows and its susceptibility to malware such as viruses, trojan horses, and worms.Nicholas Petreley for The Register notes that "Windows XP was the first version of Windows to reflect a serious effort to isolate users from the system, so that users each have their own private files and limited system privileges."

  3. File-system permissions - Wikipedia

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    When a file with setuid is executed, the resulting process will assume the effective user ID given to the owner class. This enables users to be treated temporarily as root (or another user). The set group ID, setgid, or SGID permission. When a file with setgid is executed, the resulting process will assume the group ID given to the group class ...

  4. Windows XP editions - Wikipedia

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    These editions, named Windows XP Home Edition for Subscription Computers, and Windows XP Pro Edition for Prepaid Computers respectively, are part of the "Microsoft FlexGo" initiative, described in a company-issued press release as, "[making] PCs more accessible by dramatically reducing the entry cost and enabling customers to pay for their ...

  5. List of features removed in Windows XP - Wikipedia

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    Despite this, the files for the sound scheme are still included on the Windows XP CD-ROM in the i386 folder and could be manually installed on Windows XP from the CD-ROM. 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 ...

  6. List of features removed in Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    Unlike the search feature in Windows XP, Windows Search does not display information about the location being searched in the status bar of Windows Explorer. It is not possible to perform a case sensitive search using Windows Search. Unlike the search feature in Windows XP, Windows Search no longer searches an item's NTFS Alternate Data Stream.

  7. Directory structure - Wikipedia

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    Windows itself is installed into this folder. \System \System32 \SysWOW64: These folders store dynamic-link library (DLL) files that implement the core features of Windows and Windows API. Any time a program asks Windows to load a DLL file and do not specify a path, these folders are searched after program's own folder is searched. [5] "

  8. NTFS links - Wikipedia

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    A typical new file creation event on an NTFS volume, then, simply involves NTFS allocating and creating one new MFT record, for storing the new file entity's file metadata—including, about any of the data clusters assigned to the file, and the file's data streams; one MFT record for a hard link which points to the first newly-created MFT ...

  9. List of Microsoft Windows versions - Wikipedia

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    Windows 98 Second Edition — June 10, 1999 Windows 98 Second Edition; 2222A Windows 2000: Windows NT 5.0: February 17, 2000 NT 5.0 Windows 2000 Professional; 2195 IA-32: July 13, 2010 Windows Me: Millennium: September 14, 2000 4.90 Windows Me; 3000 IA-32: July 11, 2006 Windows XP: Whistler: October 25, 2001 NT 5.1 Windows XP Starter; Windows ...