Windows XP Professional

Windows XP Professional Edition is designated by Microsoft as replacement for the WindowsNT
and Windows 2000 , while the Windows XP Home edition is supposed to replace the Windows
3.x/9x products (starting with Windows 3.x, then Windows95/98 and Windows ME ).

- Windows XP Desktop Theme / Colors used for the screen-dump graphics on this website.

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in case you have to do one yourself : Windows XP Installation
in case you have problems and need to recover :
Windows XP Recovery Console and Windows XP ASR Automatic System Recovery

- first view : Window Styles, Start-Menu and avoid the Balloon-Tips (updated June 3, 2002)
- Group Policy Editor to change default systems settings (modified March 2, 2002)
- Windows Messenger ( de-activation ) (created Jan.27, 2002)
- Windows XP Professional Logon Screen : New XP style or NT4/2000 style Modified Sept. 4, 2003)
- you MUST activate your license of Windows XP (or it will stop working ) Modified Feb 27, 2003)
- Windows XP First View Networking : NetBEUI "unsupported" protocol !
- Windows XP Simple Sharing, Security and ForceGuest (updated June 3, 2002)
- Windows XP does not support anymore ISA Non Plug & Play Network Adapters !
- Workaround to install NE2000 / 3C509 Non Plug&Play ISA Network Adapters (April 23,2002)
- Changes in the Security/Network-Access default behavior (compared to NT4/2000) (April 21,2002)
- includes a Firewall for Internet Connections
- Windows XP Non-Microsoft Firewall ( ZoneAlarm ) (created June 8, 2002)
- Windows XP "calling home" via Internet
- includes integrated support for broadband Internet Connections (DSL, ADSL via PPoE )
- Windows XP Addon Downloads from Microsoft ( JAVA support, PowerToys/TweakUI)
- Windows XP Service Pack 1 ( added Oct 27,2002)
- Remote Desktop Access (created Dec. 18,2001)
- Remote Assistence (created June 2, 2002)

Since Windows XP Professional is designed as the replacement for Windows NT4 and
Windows2000, it offers full User Management and Security with local Security Policies
and Local Logon Scripts .

Be aware: differences between the XP Home and Professional Edition ! (updated June 3,2002)

If you are not satisfied with the "Help and Support" of Windows XP, you should consider the
"Windows XP Professional : Resource Kit Documentation", either the printed book with the
eBook CD-ROM or the online version on the Microsoft Website.

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