List of features removed in Windows XP

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As the next version of Windows NT after Windows 2000, as well as the successor to Windows Me, Windows XP introduced many new features but it also removed some others. Following is a list of these.

Shell

  • The balloon notification (or dialog box) that warns the users when removing external flash storage devices without safe unmounting has been removed.[1]
  • The Line Up Icons command on the desktop was removed and replaced by the Align to Grid option.[2] Due to this being a toggle, simply aligning desktop icons once without further constraining their placement requires an extra click.[3]: 47 
  • The Minimize all windows command on the
    mouse
    .
  • The Show icons using all possible colors (which was previously introduced in
    Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95 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.[4]
  • The
    screen resolution 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.[5]
  • In the Command Prompt, QuickEdit mode and Insert mode are disabled by default.[6]
  • Links to Phone Dialer
    NetMeeting[8] were removed from the Start menu
    .

Boot

  • The "Starting Windows..." message before the boot screen (which was present in Windows 2000) has been removed.
  • The
    indeterminate
    one. The animated gradient bar seen on the boot screens of Windows 95, 98, Me and Windows 2000 was also removed, as was the text "Starting up…" which was located next to the progress bar in Windows 2000's boot screen.

Personalization

Windows Explorer

  • Small Icons view was removed from
    Windows Explorer.[10]
  • Web view in
    folders was disabled by default but can be reinstated by editing the registry. Additionally, the Customize This Folder Wizard was removed.[11] Due to the removal of Web view, pie charts showing disk space are no longer available immediately upon opening a drive.[12]
  • The status bar no longer shows the free space remaining on the given disk when browsing through folder paths of shell namespace extensions,[13] removable drives,[14] 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.[15]
  • The default sort order in Windows Explorer has changed but can be restored by editing the registry.[16]

Media components

  • downloading of audio track information and track previewing was not available in the replacement, Windows Media Player
    .
  • DVD Player is no longer usable as it is now a stub that simply opens Windows Media Player.
  • The WinMe 3D preset in the Musical Colors visualization was replaced with Ice Crystals in Windows Media Player 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.[19] 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.[20]

Protocols

Subsystems

  • The Microsoft POSIX subsystem was removed.[25] Windows Services for UNIX is available as a replacement.[26]
  • The
    Microsoft OS/2 subsystem, 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.[25]

Hardware support

Windows 9x

Later versions

Service Pack 2

  • The following
    raw socket functionality was removed: sending TCP network packets, sending UDP packets with invalid source network addresses, and associating local addresses.[36]
  • Support for TCP half-open connections was removed.[37]
  • Windows Explorer. The executable is still present, but it was replaced with a stub
    that redirects to Explorer.
  • Media Bar, which replaced the Radio Toolbar in Internet Explorer 6,[38] was removed.[39]
  • Background message compaction was removed from Outlook Express.[40] Outlook Express in Service Pack 2 automatically compacts messages every hundredth time it is run.
  • The radio edit of David Byrne'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 (generated by Windows Movie Maker 1.1 when it is started for the first time), which consisted of clips of a male child riding a tricycle, playing in a playground, and then running in a field, was removed.
  • 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

Media Center Edition 2005

See also

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