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  2. Windows XP - Wikipedia

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    e. Windows XP is a major release of Microsoft 's Windows NT operating system. It was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and later to retail on October 25, 2001. It is a direct successor to Windows 2000 for high-end and business users and Windows Me for home users. Development of Windows XP began in the late 1990s under the codename ...

  3. Windows XP editions - Wikipedia

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    For the same reason, Service Pack 2 for Windows XP x64 Edition, released on the March 13, 2007, is not the same as Service Pack 2 for 32-bit versions of Windows XP. [43] In fact, due to the earlier release date of the 32-bit version, many of the key features introduced by Service Pack 2 for 32-bit (x86) editions of Windows XP were already ...

  4. List of features removed in Windows XP - Wikipedia

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    Both graphical and command-line formatting options for floppy disks of capacities other than 1.44 MB were removed. [27][28][29] Support for non- Plug and Play networking devices, such as modems and NICs, and native support for modems slower than 28.8 kbps was removed. [30] Support for serial mouse was removed.

  5. Windows XP Professional x64 Edition - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition is an edition of Windows XP for x86-64 personal computers. It was released by Microsoft on April 25, 2005, around the same time as with the x86-64 versions of Windows Server 2003. It is designed to use the expanded 64-bit memory address space provided by the x86-64 architecture.

  6. System partition and boot partition - Wikipedia

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    The system partition and the boot partition (also known as the system volume and the boot volume) are computing terms for disk partitions of a hard disk drive or solid-state drive that must exist and be properly configured for a computer to operate. There are two different definitions for these terms: the common definition and the Microsoft ...

  7. Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs (" WinFLP ") is a thin client release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft [4] and optimized for older, less powerful hardware. It was released on July 8, 2006, nearly two years after its Windows XP SP2 counterpart was released in August 2004, and is not marketed as a full-fledged ...

  8. Booting process of Windows - Wikipedia

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    In Windows NT, the booting process is initiated by NTLDR in versions before Vista and the Windows Boot Manager in Vista and later. [4] The boot loader is responsible for accessing the file system on the boot drive, starting ntoskrnl.exe, and loading boot-time device drivers into memory. Once all the boot and system drivers have been loaded, the ...

  9. Features new to Windows XP - Wikipedia

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    With Windows XP, the Start button has been updated to support Fitts's law.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 system links which were previously located on the ...