Windows XP build 2267 (idx01.000910-1316)

Windows XP build 2267 (idx01.000910-1316) is a build of Windows XP. This build was released to beta testers on 3 October 2000 in the Personal and Professional editions.

New features and changes

 * The upgrade setup has a new interface to choose an upgrade or a custom installation.
 * This build changes the boot screen with a stylized Windows flag on a black background. The progress bar is now larger (and loops) and the "Starting up..." text has been removed.
 * Windows Movie Maker from Windows Me is also included in this build, although there is no shortcut to it. It can be launched via.
 * The login screen received more small updates. The periods have been removed on "Please wait..." and there are no longer fading effects for preparing a user's desktop.
 * Help and Support Center is available in this build if you choose "System Information" from the Start Menu, but most links inside this version of Help and Support Center do not do anything yet.
 * This build is the first to include the Professional background, which is a watercolor background with "whistler" barely visible on the top.
 * The "<<" button on the notification bar has been modified and is no longer inside a blue circle.
 * The Personal Start Menu has gained yet another update, making it resemble the official beta 1.
 * Control Panel includes a Credential Manager for network identification.
 * The OOBE background has been updated, and now has "whistler" in the background.
 * The font on the Windows logo has been changed from Franklin Gothic to Arial for unknown reasons.

System Restore
System Restore from Windows Me has been ported onto this build, but it is disabled by default. The user can enable it via changing the DWORD value  in   to 0. It can then be executed by browsing to  and executing. While the interface for it loads and resembles Windows Me's System Restore, restoring to an older date does not work.

Bugs and quirks

 * The floppy disk driver in this build is very buggy and won't work most of the time. Explorer will often display garbage when the floppy drive is accessed. Do note that unless write-protection is enabled, floppies affected by this bug can be overwritten and become corrupted.

Control Panel

 * This build uses the Windows 95 sound scheme by default.

Active Desktop
Active Desktop and Windows Explorer both have serious graphics rendering problems that makes it unable to properly set the background for JPEG and PNG files, leaving large gray marks on the desktop. Alongside, some effects like dragging to select on the desktop and selecting an icon will remain on the desktop.

Installation

 * On some machines and virtualizers, the system will refuse to format the drive as it identifies an error that the disk may be damaged. This can fixed by partitioning and formatting a drive via  by using a DOS/Windows 9x boot disk.

File differences
The following files have been introduced or removed compared to build 2257 Professional: