BetaWiki:Featured article/2023-05

Windows XP build 2410 (main) is a pre-Beta 2 build of Windows XP that was released to testers on 4 January 2001. Beginning the transition towards Beta 2, several updates towards Explorer and application features has been introduced and/or ported over from Windows Me, including the ability to uncompress ZIP files. This build also introduces prototypical version of Windows Product Activation and includes the Sample Test Visual Style, a theme for testing the color schemes of theme files.

Under the hood, the VGA driver now includes VESA BIOS extensions to allow high color display and higher resolutions with the default driver. A Start Page is also hidden in the build, a forerunner to the Start Screen later seen in Windows 8.