As the next version of

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after

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, as well as the successor to

Windows Me Windows Me (Millennium Edition) is an operating system developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows 9x family of Microsoft Windows operating systems. It was the successor to Windows 98, and was released to manufacturing on June 19, 2000, and t ...

Windows XP Windows XP is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. It was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and later to retail on October 25, 2001. It is a direct successor to Windows 2000 for high-end and business users a ...

introduced many new features but it also removed some others. The removed features are listed as follows (both original and releases from Service Pack 2 onwards).

Shell

* The dialog box that warns the users when removing external flash storage devices without safe unmounting has been removed. * The ''Line Up Icons'' command on the

desktop A desktop traditionally refers to: * The surface of a desk (often to distinguish office appliances that fit on a desk, such as photocopiers and printers, from larger equipment covering its own area on the floor) Desktop may refer to various compu ...

was removed and replaced by the ''Align to Grid'' option. Due to this being a toggle, simply aligning desktop icons once without further constraining their placement requires an extra click. * The ''Minimize all windows'' command on the

taskbar The taskbar is a graphical user interface element that has been part of Microsoft Windows since Windows 95, displaying and facilitating switching between running computer program, programs. The taskbar and the associated Start menu, Start Menu were ...

was removed. The purported replacement, ''Show the desktop'', co-existed with this feature on Windows 2000 and in any case only hides

windows Windows is a Product lining, product line of Proprietary software, proprietary graphical user interface, graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft. It is grouped into families and subfamilies that cater to particular sec ...

temporarily instead of actually minimizing them. It is still accessible through the

keyboard shortcut In computing, a keyboard shortcut (also hotkey/hot key or key binding) is a software-based assignment of an action to one or more keys on a computer keyboard. Most Operating system, operating systems and Application software, applications come ...

but it is not available through the

mouse A mouse (: mice) is a small rodent. Characteristically, mice are known to have a pointed snout, small rounded ears, a body-length scaly tail, and a high breeding rate. The best known mouse species is the common house mouse (''Mus musculus'' ...

. * The ''Show icons using all possible colors'' (which was previously introduced in

Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95 Microsoft Plus! is a discontinued commercial operating system enhancement product by Microsoft. The last edition is the Plus! SuperPack, which includes an assortment of screensavers, themes, and games, as well as multimedia applications. The Mic ...

and Windows NT 4.0) option in ''Display Properties'' has been removed. Icons are always shown using all possible colors. Microsoft states that this is by design. * The

VGA Video Graphics Array (VGA) is a video display controller and accompanying de facto graphics standard, first introduced with the IBM PS/2 line of computers in 1987, which became ubiquitous in the IBM PC compatible industry within three years. T ...

screen resolution The display resolution or display modes of a digital television, computer monitor, or other display device is the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed. It can be an ambiguous term especially as the displayed resoluti ...

and 8-bit color depth options have been removed from the ''Settings'' tab of ''Display Properties''. It is still possible to select these options using the ''Advanced'' button available under this tab, however Microsoft states that this workaround is unsupported. * In the

Command Prompt A command-line interface (CLI) is a means of interacting with software via commands each formatted as a line of text. Command-line interfaces emerged in the mid-1960s, on computer terminals, as an interactive and more user-friendly alternativ ...

, ''QuickEdit mode'' and ''Insert mode'' are disabled by default. * Links to ''Phone Dialer'' and

NetMeeting Microsoft NetMeeting is a discontinued VoIP and multi-point videoconferencing program offered by Microsoft. NetMeeting allows multiple clients to host and join a call that includes video and audio, text chat, application and desktop sharing, and f ...

were removed from the Start menu. * The ''View my Active Desktop as a web page'' option in the ''Web'' tab was removed.

Boot

* All mentions of Windows 2000 on the boot loader were changed to simply say "Windows". * The "Starting Windows..." message and its associated text before the boot screen (which was present in Windows 2000) has been removed. The "Resuming Windows..." message and its associated text when the computer is turned on after hibernation remains, but with the mention of "Windows 2000" being replaced with "Windows" (see above). * The layout of the boot screen was changed. Aside from the logo itself, the background is now black instead of white, the

progress bar A progress bar is a graphical control element used to visualize the progression of an extended computer operation, such as a download, file transfer, or installation. Sometimes, the graphic is accompanied by a textual representation of the progre ...

was changed from a determinate progress bar seen in Windows 2000 to an indeterminate one, the animated gradient bar as shown on the boot screens of Windows 95, 98, Me and Windows 2000 was removed, and the "Starting up…" and "Built on NT Technology" texts from Windows 2000's boot screen was removed. * The "Built on NT Technology" text on the classic login screen (as present in Windows 2000) was removed.

Personalization

* With the ''Desktop Themes'' utility in 2000 becoming the ''Themes'' tab in ''Display Properties'' in XP, the ''Rotate theme monthly'' option in ''Desktop Themes'', which was introduced in Microsoft Plus! 98 and later included in Windows 2000 and Me, and both the options to select what parts of a theme to apply and the previews for parts of a theme were removed. * The old desktop themes included with Windows 98 and Windows Me including the ''Baseball'', ''Dangerous Creatures'', ''Inside your Computer'', ''Jungle'', ''Leonardo da Vinci'', ''More Windows'', ''Mystery'', ''Nature'', ''Science'', ''Space'', ''Sports'', ''The 60's USA'', ''The Golden Era'', ''Travel'', ''Underwater'', ''Windows 98'' and ''Windows Millennium'' were removed. ''Windows Default'' is replaced by ''Windows XP'' and ''Windows Classic''. * The previous wallpapers and tiles from Windows 95–98, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 including the Plus! wallpaper were removed. * The ''Channel Screen Saver'' and Plus!-themed screensavers were removed. * The ''Utopia'' sound scheme, first included in Windows 95 and included up to Windows Me, was removed. Despite this, the files for the sound scheme are still included on the Windows XP

CD-ROM A CD-ROM (, compact disc read-only memory) is a type of read-only memory consisting of a pre-pressed optical compact disc that contains computer data storage, data computers can read, but not write or erase. Some CDs, called enhanced CDs, hold b ...

in the i386 folder and could be manually installed on Windows XP from the CD-ROM. * ''The Microsoft Sound'', as well as Windows 2000's startup and shutdown sounds under the names ''Windows Logon Sound'' and ''Windows Logoff Sound'' respectively were removed in favor of the new startup and shutdown sounds introduced with Windows XP. * It is no longer possible to save or delete schemes under the ''Appearance'' tab of ''Display Properties''. * The option to select a ''Pattern'' under the ''Background'' (9x/NT)/''Desktop'' (XP) tab of ''Display Properties'' was removed. Users can only set a pattern with the

Registry Editor The Windows Registry is a hierarchical database that stores low-level settings for the Microsoft Windows operating system and for applications that opt to use the registry. The kernel, device drivers, services, Security Accounts Manager, and us ...

. * The ''3D FlowerBox'', ''3D Flying Objects'', ''3D Pipes'' and ''3D Text'' screensavers have been updated to use

Direct3D Direct3D is a graphics application programming interface (API) for Microsoft Windows. Part of DirectX, Direct3D is used to render three-dimensional graphics in applications where performance is important, such as games. Direct3D uses hardware ...

instead of

OpenGL OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is a Language-independent specification, cross-language, cross-platform application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D computer graphics, 2D and 3D computer graphics, 3D vector graphics. The API is typic ...

. **The ''3D Flying Objects'' screensaver was updated to replace the classic

Windows Windows is a Product lining, product line of Proprietary software, proprietary graphical user interface, graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft. It is grouped into families and subfamilies that cater to particular sec ...

logo A logo (abbreviation of logotype; ) is a graphic mark, emblem, or symbol used to aid and promote public identification and recognition. It may be of an abstract or figurative design or include the text of the name that it represents, as in ...

in use since

Windows 3.1 Windows 3.1 is a major release of Microsoft Windows. It was released to manufacturing on April 6, 1992, as a successor to Windows 3.0. Like its predecessors, the Windows 3.1 series run as a shell on top of MS-DOS; it was the last Windows 1 ...

with the then-new Windows logo introduced with Windows XP, while the ''3D Maze'' and ''Flying Windows''

screensaver A screensaver (or screen saver) is a computer program that blanks the display screen or fills it with moving images or patterns when the computer has been idle for a designated time. The original purpose of screensavers was to prevent phosphor s ...

s were removed entirely as they were never updated to accommodate the aforementioned Windows logo changes. The ''3D Pipes''

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was also removed from Windows XP.

Windows Explorer

* ''Small Icons'' view was removed from

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. * ''Web view'' in folders was disabled by default but can be reinstated by editing the registry. Additionally, the ''Customize This Folder Wizard'' was removed. Due to the removal of ''Web view'',

pie chart A pie chart (or a circle chart) is a circular Statistical graphics, statistical graphic which is divided into slices to illustrate numerical proportion. In a pie chart, the arc length of each slice (and consequently its central angle and area) ...

s showing disk space are no longer available immediately upon opening a drive. * The

status bar A status bar is a graphical control element which poses an information area typically found at the Window (computing), window's bottom. It can be divided into sections to group information. Its job is primarily to display information about the c ...

no longer shows the free space remaining on the given disk when browsing through folder paths of shell namespace extensions, removable drives, and network shares when the navigation pane (''Folders'') in Windows Explorer is turned on, unlike in Windows 2000. It continues to show the free space remaining only for paths on local drives. In combination with the ''Web view''-related lack of pie charts previously mentioned, this means it is no longer possible to immediately view the amount of space remaining in these three cases. * The ''Directory'' icon was removed from ''My Network Places''. * The default sort order in Windows Explorer has changed but can be restored by editing the registry.

Media components

* Deluxe CD Player, which was also first part of Microsoft Plus! 98 before being included in

, was removed. Some functionality, including

upload Uploading refers to ''transmitting'' data from one computer system to another through means of a network. Common methods of uploading include: uploading via web browsers, FTP clients, and terminals ( SCP/ SFTP). Uploading can be used in th ...

ing and

on-demand On-demand or on demand may refer to: Manufacturing * Build-on-demand * Just-in-time manufacturing, a methodology for production * Print on demand, printing technology and business process in which new copies of a document are not printed until an ...

(as opposed to automatic)

downloading In computer networks, download means to ''receive'' data from a remote system, typically a server such as a web server, an FTP server, an email server, or other similar systems. This contrasts with uploading, where data is ''sent to'' a remote s ...

of audio track information and track previewing was not available in the replacement,

Windows Media Player Windows Media Player (WMP, officially referred to as Windows Media Player Legacy to retronym, distinguish it from Windows Media Player (2022), the new Windows Media Player introduced with Windows 11) is the first media player (application soft ...

. *

DVD Player A DVD player is a machine that plays DVDs produced under both the DVD-Video and DVD-Audio technical standards, two different and incompatible standards. Some DVD players will also play audio CDs. DVD players are connected to a television to ...

is no longer usable as it is now a

stub Stub or Stubb may refer to: Shortened objects and entities * Stub, a tree cut and allowed to regrow from the trunk; see pollarding * Pay stub, a receipt or record that the employer has paid an employee * Stub period, period of time over which i ...

that simply opens Windows Media Player. * The ''WinMe 3D'' preset in the ''Musical Colors'' visualization was replaced with ''Ice Crystals'' in

version 8. The name still exists within the files of the visualization. Some of the previous Windows Media Player skins that were in Windows Me was removed entirely. ''Musical Colors'' was not included with Windows Media Player version 9 on clean installs of Windows XP starting with Service Pack 2, but is retained if the player is upgraded from version 8 to 9. * Imaging for Windows was removed. It was replaced by the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer and ''Scanner and Camera Wizard'' but these two programs do not include some of its advanced functionality.

Protocols

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and NetBEUI, which are included in earlier versions of Windows, are no longer installed by default but can still be manually installed from the Windows XP CD-ROM. * The DLC

network protocol A communication protocol is a system of rules that allows two or more entities of a communications system to transmit information via any variation of a physical quantity. The protocol defines the rules, syntax, semantics, and synchronization of ...

is no longer included. A download was made available by

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. * The

AppleTalk AppleTalk is a discontinued proprietary suite of networking protocols developed by Apple Computer for their Macintosh computers. AppleTalk includes a number of features that allow local area networks to be connected with no prior setup or the ...

protocol is no longer included and was not made available for download from

Subsystems

* The

Microsoft POSIX subsystem Microsoft POSIX subsystem is one of four subsystems shipped with the first versions of Windows NT, the other three being the Win32 subsystem which provided the primary API for Windows NT, plus the OS/2 and security subsystems. Features The subs ...

was removed. Windows Services for UNIX is available as a replacement. * The

Microsoft OS/2 subsystem The Software architecture, architecture of Windows NT, a line of operating systems produced and sold by Microsoft, is a layered design that consists of two main components, User space, user mode and Protection ring#SUPERVISOR-MODE, kernel mode. ...

, which supports 16-bit character-based OS/2 applications and emulates OS/2 1.x but not 32-bit or graphical OS/2 applications as used with OS/2 2.x or later, was removed.

Hardware support

* Both

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and

command-line A command-line interface (CLI) is a means of interacting with software via commands each formatted as a line of text. Command-line interfaces emerged in the mid-1960s, on computer terminals, as an interactive and more user-friendly alternativ ...

formatting options for

floppy disks A floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, a diskette, or a disk) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium in a square or nearly square plastic enclosure lined with a ...

of capacities other than 1.44 MB were removed. * Support for non-

Plug and Play In computing, a plug and play (PnP) device or computer bus is one with a specification that facilitates the recognition of a hardware component in a system without the need for physical device configuration or user intervention in resolving reso ...

networking devices, such as

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s and NICs, and native support for modems slower than 28.8 kbps was removed. * Support for serial mouse was removed. * A number of

SCSI host adapter In computer hardware a host controller, host adapter or host bus adapter (HBA) connects a computer system bus which acts as the host system to other computer network, network and computer storage, storage devices. The terms are primarily used ...

s are no longer supported. * Support for

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's PC-98 series, the i486 Instruction Set and

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' Visual Workstation 320 and 540 was removed. * New

printer Printer may refer to: Technology * Printer (publishing), a person * Printer (computing), a hardware device * Optical printer for motion picture films People * Nariman Printer (fl. c. 1940), Indian journalist and activist * James Printer (1640 ...

installations are required to use

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rendering

component Component may refer to: In engineering, science, and technology Generic systems *System components, an entity with discrete structure, such as an assembly or software module, within a system considered at a particular level of analysis * Lumped e ...

Windows 9x

WebTV for Windows MSN TV (formerly WebTV) was a web access product consisting of a thin client device that used a television for display (instead of using a computer monitor), and the online service that supported it. The original WebTV device design and service ...

was removed. *

DriveSpace DriveSpace (initially known as DoubleSpace) is a disk compression utility supplied with MS-DOS starting from version 6.0 in 1993 and ending in 2000 with the release of Windows Me. The purpose of DriveSpace is to increase the amount of data the ...

was removed in favor of native NTFS compression. * The NTBackup tool included in Windows XP does not support certain backup formats available for use in the ''MSBackup'' tool in

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Later versions

Service Pack 2

* The following raw socket functionality was removed: sending TCP

network packet In telecommunications and computer networking, a network packet is a formatted unit of Data (computing), data carried by a packet-switched network. A packet consists of control information and user data; the latter is also known as the ''Payload ...

s, sending UDP packets with invalid source

network address A network address is an identifier for a node or host on a telecommunications network. Network addresses are designed to be unique identifiers across the network, although some networks allow for local, private addresses, or locally administere ...

es, and associating local addresses. * Support for

TCP half-open The term half-open refers to TCP connections whose state is out of synchronization between the two communicating hosts, possibly due to a crash of one side. A connection which is in the process of being established is also known as embryonic conn ...

connections was removed. *

Program Manager Program Manager is the shell of Windows 3.x and Windows NT 3.x operating systems. This shell exposed a task-oriented graphical user interface (GUI), consisting of ''icons'' ( shortcuts for programs) arranged into ''program groups''. It replaced ...

was removed and replaced with

. The executable is still present, but it was replaced with a

that redirects to Explorer. * ''Media Bar'', which replaced the ''Radio Toolbar'' in

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, was removed. *

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message A message is a unit of communication that conveys information from a sender to a receiver. It can be transmitted through various forms, such as spoken or written words, signals, or electronic data, and can range from simple instructions to co ...

compaction was removed from

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. Outlook Express in Service Pack 2 automatically compacts messages every hundredth time it is run. * The radio edit of

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's " Like Humans Do", as previously included in the original and Service Pack 1 releases of Windows XP, was removed. * The ''Windows Movie Maker Sample File'', which was a short video file consisting of clips of a male child riding a tricycle, playing in a playground, and then running in a field, is no longer generated by Windows Movie Player 2.1 when it is started for the first time, as was the case with Windows Movie Maker 1.1 in the original and Service Pack 1 releases of Windows XP. * The boot screens for all editions of Windows XP have been unified by Service Pack 2 for Windows XP with a new one that no longer displays the SKU, with the boot screen for Home Edition using a blue progress bar instead of green. The copyright years on the boot screen were also removed.

Service Pack 3

* The ''Address bar''

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on the

was removed for legal reasons, according to Microsoft.

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is touted as a replacement. * The ability to use boot disks to boot into setup was removed. * The option to display the special

Internet Explorer Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated as IE or MSIE) is a deprecation, retired series of graphical user interface, graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft that were u ...

icon on the desktop was removed. * The ability to install

service pack In computing, a service pack comprises a collection of updates, fixes, or enhancements to a software program delivered in the form of a single installable package. Companies often release a service pack when the number of individual patches to a ...

s cumulatively is no longer available in Service Pack 3 as it requires at least

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to be installed first ( Service Pack 2 in the cases of the original

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and Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004). Cumulative

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, however, is still possible and supported. * The

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in the ''Display Properties'' dialog, first introduced with

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and included up to Windows XP Service Pack 2, was removed. * The copyright information in the ''About Windows'' (winver.exe) box was updated from "1985-2001" to "2007". The banner itself remains unchanged, however.

Media Center Edition 2005

* Despite this edition being developed from

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domain A domain is a geographic area controlled by a single person or organization. Domain may also refer to: Law and human geography * Demesne, in English common law and other Medieval European contexts, lands directly managed by their holder rather ...

support is unavailable.

states that this is due to

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s requiring

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. The exceptions to this are if it is selected during installation or already in use before an

upgrade Upgrading is the process of replacing a product with a newer version of the same product. In computing and consumer electronics, an upgrade is generally a replacement of hardware, software or firmware with a newer or better version, in order to ...

, but leaving the domain will still disable the feature. *

6.4, which was hidden in Windows XP and came shipped with

and can be installed on

, Windows NT 4.0 and

Windows 98 Windows 98 is a consumer-oriented operating system developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows 9x family of Microsoft Windows operating systems. It was the second operating system in the 9x line, as the successor to Windows 95. It was Software ...

, was removed. The MCI version of Media Player, Media Player 5.1, also hidden in Windows XP, remains.

References

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