** With the introduction of Windows 7 ( Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise editions ), Windows XP Mode enables full compatibility with older programs supported under Windows XP via Microsoft Virtual PC.

* Enabling International Support in Windows XP / Server 2003 Family, a Microsoft tutorial on how to install input methods on Windows XP.

Context menus in Windows XP are customizable by third-party software.

For example, Windows XP does this when sorting file names.

ClearType was later introduced as an operating system feature in Windows XP, where it was kept turned off by default.

ClearType in Windows XP currently supports the RGB and BGR sub pixel structures.

The best option for users of Windows XP having rotated LCD displays ( Tablet PCs or swivel-stand LCD displays ) is using regular anti-aliasing, or switching off font-smoothing altogether.

Duke Nukem 3D has been ported to run on modern Microsoft Windows variants including Windows XP and Windows 7.

FCPLib supports Windows NT / 2K / XP, Debian, BSD, Solaris, and Mac OS X.

In hindsight, Cairo was a much more difficult project than Microsoft had anticipated and, as a result, NT and Chicago would not be unified until Windows XP — albeit Windows 2000, oriented to business, had already unified most of the system ’ s bolts and gears, it was XP that was sold to home consumers like Windows 95 and came to be viewed as the final unified OS.

* PathPing-a network utility supplied in Windows NT and beyond that combines the functionality of ping with that of traceroute ( or tracert ).

Windows Media Player replaced an earlier application called Media Player, adding features beyond simple video or audio playback.

For example, Windows Vista Starter is restricted to running a maximum of three concurrent applications beyond those specified by Microsoft as basic system requirements.

WMV 9 also introduced a new profile titled Windows Media Video 9 Professional, which is activated automatically whenever the video resolution exceeds 300, 000 pixels ( e. g., 528x576, 640 × 480 or 768x432 and beyond ) and the bitrate 1000 kbit / s.

In Windows ' default configuration the pagefile is allowed to expand beyond its initial allocation when necessary.

However, by the time this was released there were far too many applications available for MS Windows, X Window System software was either generally free ( non-commercial ) or very expensive, and was designed to perform well on graphical Unix workstations with performance beyond that of PC compatible machines of the time.

PathPing is a network utility supplied in Windows NT and beyond that combines the functionality of ping with that of tracert.

Infoworld reported in 2005 that a tour of Microsoft's Network operations center " showed pretty much beyond a reasonable doubt that Microsoft does run its 20, 000-plus node, international network on 99 percent Windows technology, including servers, workstations, and edge security.

New support for 24-bit non-remappable portraits ( the first art to extend beyond 256 colors ), and Windows Vista support were implemented in the April 6, 2007 " Kitterwing Edition.

In the Main Branch, discovered a lead into a new section beyond the Big Junction at − 1, 790 m. Explored this section named " Windows " to a blind chamber called " Game Over " at − 2, 080 m. The depth mark of 2, 000 m had been passed for the first time in the history of speleology.

Paradox / Windows ended up delayed about a year beyond its original plan, shipping in early 1993.

Premiere Pro's plug-in architecture enables it to import and export formats beyond those supported by QuickTime or DirectShow, supporting a wide variety of video and audio file formats and codecs on both MacOS and Windows.

* No initial Linux or Macintosh versions, with no ability to allow third parties to port the code beyond Windows ( as eXeem is closed source ).

The fields could screen for alphabetic or numeric characters, a feature beyond Windows Forms today.

There is a significant market in third-party PC power management software offering features beyond those present in the Windows operating system.

As an MS-DOS based game, Airlines does not work on Microsoft Windows operating systems beyond Windows ME, requiring a DOS emulator such as Dosbox.

Third-party programs such as CoolSpeech, Textaloud and Ultra Hal can perform various text-to-speech tasks such as reading text aloud from a specified website, email account, text document, the Windows clipboard, the user's keyboard typing, etc.

In June 2008, Apple released version 3. 1. 2, addressing a security vulnerability in the Windows version where visiting a malicious web site could force a download of executable files and execute them on the user's desktop.

An earlier version of Apple Software Update ( bundled with Safari, QuickTime, and iTunes for Microsoft Windows ) selected Safari for installation from a list of Apple programs to download by default, even when a pre-existing installation of Safari was not detected on a user's machine.

Participants competed to find a way to read the contents of a file located on the user's desktop, in one of three operating systems: Mac OS X Leopard, Windows Vista SP1, and Ubuntu 7. 10.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 include personalization features that learn a user's writing patterns and / or vocabulary for English, Japanese, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified and Korean.

In the mid 1980s, text-based and graphical user interface operating environments such as IBM TopView, Microsoft Windows, Digital Research's GEM Desktop and Quarterdeck Office Systems's DESQview surrounded DOS operating systems with a shell that turned the user's display into a menu-oriented " desktop " for selecting and running PC applications.

Fernandes published his discovery, touching off a flurry of speculation and conspiracy theories ; such as the second key, owned by the United States National Security Agency ( the NSA ), could allow the intelligence agency to subvert any Windows user's security.

Although Presentation Manager was designed to be very similar to the upcoming Windows 2. 0 from the user's point of view, and Presentation Manager application structure was nearly identical to Windows application structure, source compatibility with Windows was not an objective.

Windows Update requires Internet Explorer or a third-party web browser that uses Microsoft's MSHTML layout engine, as it must support the use of an ActiveX control to house the software that is executed on the user's computer.

In order for the v3 ActiveX control to determine what updates were needed, the entire list of available software on Windows Update was downloaded to the user's computer when they visited the Windows Update web site.

Shortly after the release of Windows 98, Microsoft released a Critical Update Notification Tool ( later called Critical Update Notification Utility ) through Windows Update, which installed a background tool on the user's computer that checked the Windows Update web site on a regular schedule for new updates that have been marked as " Critical ".

* HOME ( Unix-like ) and USERPROFILE ( Microsoft Windows )-indicate where a user's home directory is located in the file system.

Also, on Microsoft's Entertainment Desktop sets ( designed for Windows Vista ), the Windows key is in the middle of the keyboard, below all other keys ( where the user's thumbs rest ).

On July 17, 2002 Apple introduced the first iPod for Windows, which included the Musicmatch Jukebox to manage the user's music library and transfer music to the iPod.

Starting with Windows Vista, a user's private key can be stored on a smart card ; Data Recovery Agent ( DRA ) keys can also be stored on a smart card.

In Windows 2000, the user's RSA private key is not only stored in a truly encrypted form, but there is also a backup of the user's RSA private key that is more weakly protected.