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 * [[w:Automated System Recovery|Automated System Recovery]] replaced the Emergency Boot Disk as recovery option, though it is only available in Windows XP Professional and other SKUs based on it.
-=== Deprecations ===
+=== Deprecations and removals ===
-Windows XP drops the ability to upgrade from both [[Windows NT 3.51]] and [[Windows 95]], requiring at least [[Windows 98]] or [[Windows NT 4.0]]. Subsequent service packs would later gradually drop the ability to upgrade from the [[Windows 9x]] family and Windows NT 4.0, requiring [[Windows 2000]] at minimum. Support for the SGI Visual Workstation 320 and 540 was dropped during development.
+Windows XP drops the ability to upgrade from both [[Windows NT 3.51]] and [[Windows 95]], requiring at least [[Windows 98]] or [[Windows NT 4.0]]. Subsequent service packs would later gradually drop the ability to upgrade from the [[Windows 9x]] family and Windows NT 4.0, requiring [[Windows 2000]] at minimum. Support for the [[w:SGI Visual Workstation|SGI Visual Workstation]] 320 and 540 computers was dropped during development.
-Varying networking protocols such as [[w:AppleTalk|AppleTalk]], [[w:NetDDE|NetDDE]], [[w:NetBIOS#NetBEUI|NetBEUI]] and [[w:Data Link Control|Data Link Control]] have been deprecated or otherwise removed from the operating system. Several communications applications such as the [[Phone Dialer]] and [[Windows NetMeeting]] have been deprecated, although they remain accessible in the operating system.
+Varying networking protocols such as [[w:AppleTalk|AppleTalk]], [[w:NetDDE|NetDDE]], [[w:NetBIOS#NetBEUI|NetBEUI]] and [[w:Data Link Control|Data Link Control]] have been deprecated or otherwise removed from the operating system. Several communications applications such as the [[Phone Dialer]] and [[Windows NetMeeting]] have been deprecated, although they remain accessible in the operating system. Support for running OS/2- and POSIX-based applications was dropped from Windows, with [[w:Windows Services for UNIX]] acting as a replacement, whereas the DriveSpace compression utility was removed in favor of native NTFS compression support.
-The reworked [[Windows Media Player 8|Windows Media Player]] application also brought with it the removal of the Deluxe CD Player and DVD Player due to the former's improved support with DVD and audio CD playback, which featured hardware-based MPEG decoding support.
+The reworked [[Windows Media Player 8|Windows Media Player]] application also brought with it the removal of the Deluxe CD Player and DVD Player applications due to the former's improved support with DVD and audio CD playback. Later versions of the Media Player would also remove [[Windows Media Player 6.4|version 6.4]] from the operating system due to a lack of use throughout the operating system's lifespan.
-* Links to Phone Dialer and [[Windows NetMeeting]] have been removed from the Start menu. They can still be accessed and used by launching them directly (via <code>dialer.exe</code> and <code>conf.exe</code>).
-* The Small icons view was removed from Windows Explorer.
+==== Service Pack 2 ====
-* Deluxe CD Player, which was also first part of [[Microsoft Plus!|Microsoft Plus! 98]] before being included in [[Windows 2000]], and DVD Player, which in [[Windows 98]] and [[Windows 2000]] plays DVDs if a hardware-based MPEG decoder is present, have both been removed in favor of CD/DVD playback functionality in Windows Media Player.
+Minor functionality deprecations were introduced in Service Pack 2. Sending TCP and UDP packets over a raw network socket (as well as associating local network addresses over raw sockets) were removed from the operating system, and messages in Outlook Express are no longer archived/compacted in the background in favor of an automatic compaction routine that is ran after the e-mail client is run for every hundredth time.
-* Imaging for Windows was removed and replaced by Windows Picture and Fax Viewer.
-* The Directory icon was removed from My Network Places.
+The legacy Windows NT [[Program Manager]] shell was removed; the executable now acts as a compatibility stub that launches the [[Windows Explorer]] shell.
-* In Windows XP 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.
-* The Microsoft POSIX and OS/2 subsystems were removed. Windows Services for UNIX is available as a replacement.
+==== Service Pack 3 ====
-* The DriveSpace utility was removed in favor of native NTFS compression.
+Changes to underlying setup functionality were instituted within Service Pack 3, removing support for floppy disk-based boot media and the ability to install Service Packs cumulatively, requiring a newer Service Pack to be present in the base operating system install first; these changes, however, do not affect slipstreaming Service Packs into existing installation media.
-* The "Starting Windows..." message before the boot screen, which was present in Windows 2000, was removed, only leaving the progress bar on some configurations.
-* The progress bar on the boot screen is now an indeterminate progress bar and not determinate like with Windows 2000.
+It is no longer possible to display the address bar onto the taskbar, nor is it possible to display the Internet Explorer special application icon onto the desktop.
-* The Line Up Icons command on the desktop was replaced by the Align to Grid command.
-* The Customize This Folder wizard was removed.
-* In Windows XP SP2, [[Program Manager]] was replaced with a compatibility stub that redirects to [[Windows Explorer]].
-* Starting with Internet Explorer 6 Security Version 1, ''Media Bar'', which replaced the ''Radio Toolbar'' in the original and Service Pack 1 releases of Internet Explorer 6, was removed.
-* Support for TCP half-open connections was removed in Service Pack 2 of Windows XP. Background message compaction was also removed from [[Outlook Express|Outlook Express 6]]. Outlook Express in Service Pack 2 automatically compacts messages every hundredth time it is run.
-* The unique boot screens in the original and Service Pack 1 releases of Windows XP that have a green progress bar for Home Edition and a blue progress bar for Professional, Embedded, Tablet PC Edition and Media Center Edition, were removed in Service Pack 2 of Windows XP and was replaced with a single generic "Windows XP" boot screen with a blue progress bar.
-* The ''Address bar'' toolbar was removed from the taskbar in Service Pack 3 of Windows XP. Windows Desktop Search is touted as a replacement.
-* The ability to use boot disks to boot into setup was removed in Windows XP SP3.
-* The option to display the special [[Internet Explorer]] icon on the desktop was removed in Windows XP SP3.
-* The ability to install service packs cumulatively is no longer available in [[Windows XP build 2600.5512|Windows XP SP3]] as it requires at least [[Windows XP build 2600.1106|Service Pack 1]] to be installed first ([[Windows XP build 2600.2180|Service Pack 2]] in the cases of the original [[Windows XP Media Center Edition]] and [[Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005]]). Cumulative slipstreaming, however, is still possible and supported.
-* The Energy Star logo in the ''Display Properties'' dialog, first introduced in Windows 95, was removed in Windows XP SP3.
-* Although Media Center Edition 2005 is based upon the Professional edition, domain support is unavailable. Microsoft states that this is due to Windows Media Center Extenders requiring fast user switching. The exceptions to this are if it is selected during installation or already in use before an upgrade, but leaving the domain will still disable the feature.
-* The hidden [[Windows Media Player 6.4]] was removed in [[Windows XP Media Center Edition build 2700.2180|Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005]].
-* Service Packs can no longer be installed cumulatively in Windows XP SP3, meaning that Service Pack 1 has to be installed first.
 == Editions ==