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The default internet browser and default email program are pinned to the Start menu. The Start menu is fully customizable, links can be added or removed; the number of frequently used programs to display can be set. The All Programs menu expands like the classic Start menu to utilize the entire screen but can be set to scroll programs.

The user’s name and user’s account picture are also shown on the Start menu. The taskbar buttons for running applications and Quick Launch have also been updated for Fitt’s law. Locking the taskbar not only prevents it from being accidentally resized or moved but elements such as Quick launch and other DeskBands are also locked from being accidentally moved.

The Taskbar grouping feature combines multiple buttons of the same application into a single button, which when clicked, pops up a menu listing all the grouped windows and their number. Advanced taskbar grouping options can be configured from the registry. A button allows the user to reveal all the icons.

The Taskbar, if set to a thicker height also displays the day and date in the notification area. There are significant changes made to Windows Explorer in Windows XP, both visually and functionally. Microsoft focused especially on making Windows Explorer more discoverable and task-based, as well as adding a number of features to reflect the growing use of a computer as a “digital hub”.

The task pane is displayed on the left side of the window instead of the traditional folder tree view when the navigation pane is turned off. It presents the user with a list of common actions and destinations that are relevant to the current directory or file s selected.

For instance, when in a directory containing mostly pictures, a set of “Picture tasks” is shown, offering the options to display these pictures as a slide show, to print them, or to go online to order prints. Conversely, a folder containing music files would offer options to play those files in a media player, or to go online to purchase music.

Every folder also has “File and Folder Tasks”, offering options to create new folders, share a folder on the local network, publish files or folders to a web site using the Web Publishing Wizard , and other common tasks like copying, renaming, moving, and deleting files or folders.

File types that have identified themselves as being printable also have an option listed to print the file. Underneath “File and Folder Tasks” is “Other Places”, which always lists the parent folder of the folder being viewed and includes additional links to other common locations such as “My Computer”, “Control Panel”, and “My Documents” or previously navigated locations.

These change depending on what folder the user was in. Underneath “Other Places” is a “Details” area which gives additional information when a file or folder is selected — typically the file type, file size and date modified, but depending on the file type, author, image dimensions, attributes, or other details. If the file type has a Thumbnail image handler installed, its preview also appears in the “Details” task pane.

For music files, it might show the artist, album title, and the length of the song. The same information is also shown horizontally on the status bar.

The “Folders” button on the Windows Explorer toolbar toggles between the traditional navigation pane containing the tree view of folders, and the task pane. Users can also close the navigation pane by clicking the Close button in its right corner as well as turn off the task pane from Folder Options. The navigation pane has been enhanced in Windows XP to support “simple folder view” which when turned on hides the dotted lines that connect folders and subfolders and makes folders browsable with single click while still keeping double clicking on in the right pane.

Single clicking in simple folder view auto expands the folder and clicking another folder automatically expands that folder and collapses the previous one. Windows XP introduced a large number of metadata properties [7] which are shown as columns in the “Details” view of Explorer, in the new Tiles view in Explorer, on the Summary tab in a file’s properties, in a file’s tooltip and on the Explorer status bar when a single file is selected.

Users also gain the ability to sort by any property which is turned on in “Details” view. Developers can write column handler shell extensions to further define their own properties by which files can be sorted.

The column by which items are sorted is highlighted. Sorting files and folders can be in Ascending order or Descending order in all views, not just Details view. To reverse the order, the user simply can perform the sort by the same property again.

The sort order has also been made more intuitive compared to the one in Windows For file names containing numbers Windows Explorer now tries to sort based on numerical value rather than just comparing each number digit by digit for every character position in the file name.

The right pane of Windows Explorer has a “Show in Groups” feature which allows Explorer to separate its contents by headings based on any field which is used to sort the items. Items can thus be grouped by any detail which is turned on. Microsoft introduced animated “Search Companions” in an attempt to make searching more engaging and friendly; the default character is a puppy named Rover, with three other characters Merlin the magician, Earl the surfer, and Courtney also available.

These search companions powered by Microsoft Agent technology, bear a great deal of similarity to Microsoft Office ‘s Office Assistants , even incorporating “tricks” and sound effects. If the user wishes, they can also turn off the animated character entirely. The search capability itself is fairly similar to Windows Me and Windows , with some important additions. Search can also be instructed to search only files that are categorically “Documents” or “Pictures, music and video” searching by perceived type ; this feature is noteworthy largely because of how Windows determines what types of files can be classified under these categories.

Using Tweak UI , the search user interface can be restored to the one used by Windows Windows XP improves image preview by offering a Filmstrip view which shows images in a single horizontal row and a large preview of the currently selected image above it. Filmstrip view like any other view can be turned on per folder. This view will be available if the new “Common Tasks” folder view is selected, not with “Windows Classic” folder view.

Aside from the Filmstrip view mode, there is a ‘Thumbnails’ view, which displays thumbnail -sized images in the folder and also displays images a subfolder may be containing 4 by default overlaid on a large folder icon. A folder’s thumbnail view can be customized from the Customize tab accessible from its Properties, where users can also change the folder’s icon and specify a template type pictures, music, videos, documents for that folder and optionally all its subfolders.

The size and quality of thumbnails in “Thumbnails” view can be adjusted using Tweak UI or the registry. Windows XP optionally caches the thumbnails in a ” Thumbs.

Thumbnails can be forced to regenerate by right-clicking the image in Thumbnail or Filmstrip views and selecting “Refresh thumbnail”. AutoPlay examines newly discovered removable media and devices and, based on content such as pictures, music or video files, launches an appropriate application to play or display the content.

AutoPlay can be enhanced by AutoPlay-compatible software and hardware. It can be configured by the user to associate favourite applications with AutoPlay events and actions. These actions are called AutoPlay Handlers and there are sets of Handlers associated with various types of content. New AutoPlay handlers can get added to the system when additional software is installed. AutoPlay settings can be configured per-device in Windows XP from the device’s properties.

When a user inserts an optical disc into a drive or attaches a USB camera, Windows detects the arrival and starts a process of examining the device or searching the medium. It is looking for properties of the device or content on the medium so that AutoPlay can present a set of meaningful options to the user. When the user makes a particular choice, they also have the option to make that selection automatic the next time Windows sees that content or device.

It supersedes part of the functions of Imaging for Windows in previous versions of Windows. The Windows Picture and Fax Viewer is integrated with Windows Explorer for functions like slideshow, email, printing etc.

It supports full file management from within the viewer itself, that is, right clicking the image shows the same context menu as the one shown when an image is right clicked in Windows Explorer.

Images can be set as the desktop wallpaper from the context menu. It supports successive viewing of all images in current folder and looping through images, [17] that is, after viewing the last image in a directory, it again shows the first image and vice versa. By default, images smaller than the user’s display resolution are shown at their actual size.

If an image is larger than the display resolution, it is scaled to fit the screen Best Fit. When this is done, scroll bars allow for viewing of all areas of the image. The wizard shows a preview of what the printed page will look like with the currently specified options. Using Tweak UI , the time between images during a slideshow can be adjusted. GIF files are shown with full animation, even when zoomed. Areas of the image can be selected and concealed.

Windows Picture and Fax Viewer saves and remembers its window position and size and supports keyboard shortcuts for all of its operations. Raw image formats , which are the preferred formats in professional photography are not supported, however, Microsoft released a later update called RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer for Windows XP for viewing certain raw image files. The Text Services Framework is designed to offer advanced language and word processing features to applications.

It supports features such as multilingual support, keyboard drivers, handwriting recognition , speech recognition , as well as spell checking and other text and natural language processing functions. It is also downloadable for older Windows operating systems. The language bar enables text services to add UI elements to the toolbar and enables these elements when an application has focus. From the Language Bar, users can select the input language, and control keyboard input, handwriting recognition and speech recognition.

The language bar also provides a direct means to switch between installed languages, even when a non-TSF-enabled application has focus. Although an upgrade of the Windows kernel, there are major scalability, stability and performance improvements, albeit transparent to the end user. Windows XP includes simultaneous multithreading hyperthreading support. Simultaneous multithreading is a processor’s ability to process more than one data thread at a time.

Windows XP supports a larger system virtual address space —— 1. The Windows XP Memory Manager is redesigned to consume less paged pool, allowing for more caching and greater availability of paged pool for any component that needs it. The total size of memory-mapped files in Windows was limited because the memory manager allocated the Prototype Page Table entries PPTEs for the entire file, even if an application created mapped views to only parts of the file.

A benefit of this, for example, is in case of making backups of large files on low memory systems. The paged pool limit of MB has been lifted from the Memory Manager in Windows XP, with unmapped views dynamically reusable by the memory manager depending on pool usage. Memory pages in working sets are trimmed more efficiently for multiprocessor systems depending on how recently they were accessed.

The dispatcher lock contention has been reduced and the Page Frame Number PFN lock has been optimized for increased parallelism and granularity. Windows XP uses push locks on the event synchronization object if there is no contention as they support shared and exclusive acquisition.

Push locks protect handle table entries in the Executive , and in the Object Manager to protect data structures and security descriptors and Memory Manager to protect AWE -related locks. The kernel page write protection limit in Windows XP is enabled on systems up to MB of RAM beyond which large pages are enabled for increased address translation performance.

Windows XP introduces the CreateMemoryResourceNotification function which can notify user mode processes of high or low memory availability so applications can allocate more memory or free up memory as necessary.

In Windows XP, the registry is reimplemented outside of the paged pool; the registry hives are memory mapped by the Cache Manager into the system cache, eliminating the registry size limit.

The registry size is now limited only by the available disk space. The System hive still has a maximum size, but it has been raised from 12 MB to MB, eliminating the issue previous Windows versions faced [37] of being unable to boot because of a large or fragmented System hive. The Configuration Manager has been updated to minimize the registry’s memory footprint and lock contention , reduce fragmentation and thus page faults when accessing the registry, and improved algorithms to speed up registry query processing.

An in-memory security cache eliminates redundant security descriptors. Windows XP supports cross user session debugging, attaching the debugger to a non-crashing user-mode program, dumping the process memory space using the dump command, and then detaching the debugger without terminating it.

Debugging can be done over a FireWire port and on a local system. The debug heap can be disabled and the standard heap be used when debugging. Heap leak detection can be enabled when processes exit and a debugger extension can be used to investigate leaks.

Also introduced is a new heap performance-monitoring counter. Windows XP introduces a new low fragmentation heap policy disabled by default which allocates memory in distinct sizes for blocks less than 16KB to reduce heap fragmentation.

In low memory conditions, “must succeed” calls are denied, causing a slowdown but preventing a bug check. NTFS 3. There are new APIs to preserve original short file names, to retrieve a list of mount points drive letters and mounted folder paths for the specified volume, and to enable applications to create very large files quickly by setting the valid data length on files without force-writing data with zeroes up to the VDL SetFileValidData function. For instance, this function can be used to quickly create a fixed size virtual machine hard disk.

Upon system boot or the launch of an application, any data and code in the trace that is not already in memory is prefetched from the disk. The previous prefetching results determine which scenario benefited more and what should be prefetched at the next boot or launch. The prefetcher also uses the same algorithms to reduce application startup times. To reduce disk seeking even further, the Disk Defragmenter is called in at idle time to optimize the layout of these specific files and metadata in a contiguous area.

Boot and resume operations can be traced and analyzed using Bootvis. Windows XP includes a Fast Logon Optimization feature that performs logon asynchronously without waiting for the network to be fully initialized if roaming user profiles are not set up. Group Policy is applied in the background, and startup or logon scripts execute asynchronously by default. Windows XP reconciles local and roaming user profiles using a copy of the contents of the registry.

The user is no longer made to wait as in Windows until the profile is unloaded. Windows XP saves locked registry hives with open keys after 60 seconds so that roaming profile changes can be saved back to the server. The problem left is that the computer cannot recover the memory the profile uses until it can be unloaded. To make sure the user profiles are completely reconciled correctly during logoff, Microsoft has released the User Profile Hive Cleanup service for Windows XP, which they later included in Windows Vista.

Windows XP offers enhancements for usability, resilience against corruption and performance of roaming user profiles. To accommodate the scenario where an older profile would overwrite a newer server profile due to Windows XP’s Fast Logon feature, Windows XP ensures in such a situation that the user registry hive is copied from the server to the local profile.

Deletion of profiles marked for deletion at the next logoff does not fail for locked profiles. For workgroup computers, Windows XP no longer deletes the profiles of users belonging to the Guests group. Windows XP includes some changes to the behavior of Offline Files. Shared folders from DFS namespaces can be made available offline.

Beginning with Windows XP, folders redirected to the network are automatically made available offline using Offline Files , although this can optionally be disabled through Group Policy. For older Windows NT 4. In Windows XP, System Restore is configurable per volume and the data stores are also stored per volume. A Disk Cleanup handler allows deleting all but the most recent Restore Point.

System Restore supports Group Policy. Automated System Recovery is a feature that provides the ability to save and restore Windows and installed applications, the system state , and critical boot and system files from a special backup instead of a plain reinstall. A common issue in previous versions of Windows was that users frequently suffered from DLL hell , where more than one version of the same dynamically linked library DLL was installed on the computer.

As software relies on DLLs, using the wrong version could result in non-functional applications, or worse. These operating systems allowed loading a private version of the DLL if it was placed in the application’s folder by the developer, instead of the system directory and must be registered properly with the system.

The technology keeps multiple digitally signed versions of a shared DLL in a centralized WinSxS folder and runs them on demand to the appropriate application keeping applications isolated from each other and not using common dependencies.

Manifests and the assembly version number are used by the OS loader to determine the correct binding of assembly versions to applications instead of globally registering these components. Instead, the metadata and CLSIDs of the classes implemented in the component are declared in an assembly manifest described using XML , stored either as a resource in the executable or as a separate file installed with the component. During application loading, the Windows loader searches for the manifest.

Only if the lookup fails is the registry scanned. Windows Error Reporting collects and offers to send post-error debug information a memory dump using the internet to the developer of an application that crashes or stops responding on a user’s desktop. No data is sent without the user’s consent. When a dump or other error signature information reaches the Microsoft server, it is analyzed and a solution is sent back to the user if one is available. Windows Error Reporting runs as a Windows service and can optionally be entirely disabled.

Software and hardware manufacturers may access their error reports using Microsoft’s Winqual program. OneDrive is a free Microsoft service that provides password-protected online file storage.

Add a Place lets you add an online location to save your publication. Use the options in the Insert Pictures dialog box to find the picture you want to use. Add text to your publication by inserting a text box first.

Most templates contain text boxes you can fill in, but you can also add your own text boxes. If the text you type is too long for the text box, you can make the text box bigger, or link it to another text box. When a text box has too much text, a little box with ellipses appears in the lower right of the text box. Click the overflow indicator and your cursor becomes a pitcher. Now as you add text, words flow from one text box to another. If you run out of room in the second box you can link to another text box, and the text will flow through all three boxes.

Building blocks are reusable pieces of content such as headings, calendars, borders, and advertisements. Publisher has built-in building blocks, or you can create your own. Under Print , enter the number of copies to print in Copies of print job box. Note: The properties for your default printer are automatically entered for you. Discovery management continues to reverse Jason Kilar’s expensive exit from wholesale ‘channels’ partnerships.

Dish wants to deploy 5G wireless services in the 12 GHz spectrum band. DirecTV thinks that’s going be a problem.

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