Module 1 Additional Slides Introducing Windows XP Professional

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Module 1 Additional SlidesIntroducing Windows XP
Professional
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Overview

• What is Windows XP?
• Home Edition versus Professional
• New Windows XP Features

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What is Windows XP?

• Built on the foundation of Windows 2000
• Merger of Consumer and Business Operating Systems
• Two Versions
• Windows XP Home Edition
• Windows XP Professional
• Single Code Base
• Two Platforms
• IA32
• IA64 Pro only

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Home Edition versus Professional

• Same core operating system
• Windows XP Home Edition
• Consumer platform
• Simplified interface
• Windows XP Professional
• Business platform
• Different characteristics when joined versus
  disjoined to a domain

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Home Edition

• Built for ease of use
• Simplified interface by default
• Easy user account management
• Security
• No domain membership
• No administrator logon except in Safe Mode
• No administrative shares created
• All inbound connections authenticated as Guest

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Professional

• Designed for business or advanced home users
• All the features of Home Edition
• Behaves like Home Edition when disjoined
• Logon and security behavior is the same as
  Windows 2000 Professional when joined

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Windows XP 64-bit

• Designed for specialized technical workstation
  users
• Windows XP supported on Itanium Systems
• XP 64 bit Pro only (no home edition)
• Look and feel identical to 32-bit version
• Most Windows-compatible 32-bit applications will
  run as is in a subsystem of Windows XP 64-Bit
  Edition
• Win16 and DOS apps will not run
• Some IA32 functions not supported (eg CD ROM
  burning)

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System Requirements
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Windows XP Features
Troubleshooting
Enhanced Supportability
System Maintenance Recovery
Networking
User Experience
Multimedia
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Enhanced Supportability

• Driver Blocking
• Driver Rollback
• Side-by-Side Components
• Device and application compatibility
• Automated System Recovery (ASR)

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User Experience
Welcome screen

• Welcome Screen
• Fast User Switching
• Simplified Desktop
• Taskbar Notification Area and Start menu

• Web Publishing and Sharing
• Remote Desktop
• Internet Time Synchronization

Start menu
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Multimedia

• Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)

• Windows Media Player for Windows XP

• Windows Movie Maker 1.1

• DirectX 8.1

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System Maintenance Recovery

• System File Protection (SFP)
• System Restore
• Help and Support
• Unified Help interface
• Remote Assistance

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Networking

• PPP Over Ethernet (PPPoE)
• Network Bridging
• Internet Connection Firewall
• IP over 1394
• Universal Plug and Play

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Troubleshooting

• System Configuration Utility (MSCONFIG)
• Network diagnostics
• My Computer information in Help and Support
• Debugging enhancements