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Windows XP Professional helps prevent problems that can arise if important system files are changed, or incompatible programs are installed. In addition, if serious problems do occur, Windows XP makes it easier to restore your computer to its normal operating state.Device Driver Rollback: Drivers are the bits of software that come with your digital camera, keyboard, or other device to communicate with your system. If you upgrade a driver and it disrupts your system, in most cases Windows XP can reinstall your previous version of the driver.
Last Known Good Configuration: If you change your hardware or software, then have trouble starting your computer, this feature can help. Windows XP saves your configuration settings after each successful startup. Then, if your system won't start, it uses these “last known good” settings to start your computer and lets you troubleshoot the new hardware or software.System Restore: This feature works like the Undo command in a word processing program. System Restore automatically monitors and records key system changes. If you change a system setting and then discover a problem, you can easily reverse the change.
Windows XP Home Edition and Professional are essentially the same 32-bit operating system. Both feature the same kernel and basic capabilities, and unless otherwise noted, everything in this review applies to both versions. The Home Edition, as you might expect, is targeted at home users, or the majority of people who were previously using Windows 98 and Windows Me. Professional is targeted at business users and power users, so it offers business-oriented features and some additional capabilities that would be expected by the more technical people. For a complete rundown of the differences, . But remember one key fact: Professional is a true superset of Home Edition, so if it's in Home Edition, it's in Pro as well.
As an evolutionary product, Windows Media Player 10 is immediately recognizable as a member of Microsoft's Windows Media Player product family, and yet it also offers a fresh face to what has always been an overly complicated product. Windows Media Player 10, if you can believe it, actually offers a lot more functionality than previous versions of the player, but it presents much of that functionality in far simpler ways. For example, in addition to aggregating music and video files like previous versions, Windows Media Player 10 can aggregate pictures, Recorded TV shows, and other media, though that ability might be limited by the kind of PC you have, and which portable devices you interact with. The free media player completely overhauls version 9, offering a simple, clutter-free interface that reflects the influence of massive consumer and focus-group testing.
The new player's features are quickly accessible from easy-to-read toolbar drop-down menus. The menus are turned off by default at first, resulting in a streamlined look. Users can turn the menus on with a right mouse click.Organizing user libraries of purchased music and video, CD-ripped music, and recorded TV is much like using Windows Explorer, but even easier. Users can search by title, artist, album, or their own star rating. Playlists can be created quickly by dragging and dropping titles into playlists that appear as folders.Users can copy CDs into WMA or MP3 formats and then drag and drop them into a portable device or burn them to a CD. Windows Media Player 10 recognizes a wide array of portable devices (it integrates the necessary drivers for many of them) and promises seamless syncing.
The player recognizes and works with numerous online music and video stores, including Napster and MSN Music. Downloads from these and other stores are automatically stored and organized in the user's libraryThe software incorporates Microsoft's new Windows Digital Rights Management, also known as Janus. Previously, if you belonged to a subscription-based music service, you could access your music collection only while at your PC, says Erin Cullen, lead product manager with Microsoft's DMD division. With Janus, you'll be able to transfer that content to your Portable Media Center or to another handheld device such as your MP3 player.
Overall, Windows Media Player 10 is a huge improvement over previous Windows Media Player versions, though it still falls short of the competition in a few key areas. If you've bought into the Microsoft-oriented music world in any way, however--perhaps with a Media Center PC, Portable Media Center device, or by using a WMA-compatible online music service--you simply must upgrade to Windows Media Player 10. This release offers major improvements for discovering and buying, and subscribing to content online, sports an improved UI, and integrates nicely with a coming generation of portable devices. And if up-and-coming music subscription services, like that now offered by Napster, take off, the release of Windows Media Player 10 will be heralded as the watershed moment of what is clearly still a nascent market. That said, users interested solely in music playback will likely find little reason to abandon iTunes. And iPod users will simply ignore Windows Media Player 10 as they have previous versions.
The CD contains:
Windows XP Home OEM with Service Pack 2
Windows XP Home Retail with Service Pack 2
Windows XP Home Upgrade with Service Pack 2
Windows XP Media Center 2005 with Service Pack 2
Windows XP Pro Corp with Service Pack 2
Windows XP Pro OEM with Service Pack 2
Windows XP Pro Retail with Service Pack 2
Windows XP Pro Upgrade with Service Pack 2
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