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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.
ctfmon (ctfmon.exe) is a process used to activate the Alternative User Input Text Input Processor (TIP) and also the Microsoft Language Bar.Ctfmon is also a component of Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 which enables advanced user input services in applications (pen and ink, speech etc.).
Experience Pack for Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 Microsoft Store (previously Windows Store) Initially known as Windows Store, it started as an app store for Windows 8. In Windows 10, it expanded into a broad digital distribution platform for apps, games, music, digital video and e-books.
Unlike the search feature in Windows XP, Windows Search does not display information about the location being searched in the status bar of Windows Explorer. It is not possible to perform a case sensitive search using Windows Search. Unlike the search feature in Windows XP, Windows Search no longer searches an item's NTFS Alternate Data Stream.
WIN.INI is a basic INI file that was used in versions of the Microsoft Windows operating environment up to Windows 3.11 to store basic settings at boot time. By default, all font, communications drivers, wallpaper, screen saver, and language settings were stored in WIN.INI by Windows 3.x.
Current Windows versions and all back to Windows XP and prior Windows NT (3.x, 4.0) are shipped with system libraries that support string encoding of two types: 16-bit "Unicode" (UTF-16 since Windows 2000) and a (sometimes multibyte) encoding called the "code page" (or incorrectly referred to as ANSI code page). 16-bit functions have names suffixed with 'W' (from "wide") such as SetWindowTextW.
The first, Windows XP 64-Bit Edition, was intended for IA-64 systems; as IA-64 usage declined on workstations in favor of AMD's x86-64 architecture, the Itanium edition was discontinued in January 2005. [57] A new 64-bit edition supporting the x86-64 architecture, called Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, was released in April 2005. [58]
Beginning with Windows 8/RT, most editions of Windows are able to download and install all Language Packs, [13] with a few exceptions: In Single Language editions of Windows, only one language pack is allowed to be installed, [ 14 ] the same behavior as editions of Windows 7 and earlier that are not Enterprise or Ultimate.