A brief note:

Windows XP differs greatly from the previous versions that were installed on home computers.  The entire concept of Windows XP was built around the "NT" kernal (the main thinking process of windows).

During 2000 Microsoft incorporated the look and feel of Windows 9x with their Professional / Networking Windows (NT), and developed Windows 2000.

Now Microsoft offers basically 2 types of Windows, both of which are called Windows XP.  The first is the home version called Windows XP Home, the second being Windows XP Professional.  While they do offer several flavors of the XP Profession Server XP, basically the 2 operating systems are very similar.  Both have the ability to provide what is called an NTFS format.  Both provide more stable (they don't lock up or crash as much as the old Windows), and more secure (you can't get into the computer by pressing the escape key) systems.    The primary difference in the 2 is more in the tools that they provide for "servers" and "professionals" than in how the system works.

*NT ... while Microsoft claims that NT stood for nothing in particular, many claim that it stood for New Technology.
NTFS ... NT File System.

One file in this section:

XP Intro

Future Window XP help files will be posted in the Members section.

file: index.html
site: root/help/winxp
posted: 07.05.2002
Charles H. Davis
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