Windows XP System Requirements (pII 300Mhz +)

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support.microsoft.com/kb/314865

The minimum hardware requirements for Windows XP Home Edition are:

    Pentium 233-megahertz (MHz) processor or faster (300 MHz is recommended)
    At least 64 megabytes (MB) of RAM (128 MB is recommended)
    At least 1.5 gigabytes (GB) of available space on the hard disk
    CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
    Keyboard and a Microsoft Mouse or some other compatible pointing device
    Video adapter and monitor with Super VGA (800 x 600)or higher resolution
    Sound card
    Speakers or headphones

For more information about system requirements for Windows XP Home Edition, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/evaluation/sysreqs.mspx
For more information about Windows XP Home Edition, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.mspx

The minimum hardware requirements for Windows XP Professional include:

    Pentium 233-megahertz (MHz) processor or faster (300 MHz is recommended)
    At least 64 megabytes (MB) of RAM (128 MB is recommended)
    At least 1.5 gigabytes (GB) of available space on the hard disk
    CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
    Keyboard and a Microsoft Mouse or some other compatible pointing device
    Video adapter and monitor with Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher resolution
    Sound card
    Speakers or headphones

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http://www.mcmcse.com/microsoft/guides/filesystems.shtml

File System Overview

To have a good understanding of how and why you can set up or deny access to data on a Windows XP Professional system, you need to have an underlying understanding of any native file security that may or may not be in place.

One place to start would be the file system the operating system is utilizing.

Windows XP Professional supports the three major computer files systems of File Allocation Table (commonly known as FAT or FAT16), FAT32 and NTFS.

The term FAT is used to refer to two related file systems: the original 16-bit FAT file system and its 32-bit successor, FAT32. If you use FAT to format a partition during Windows XP Setup, Windows uses FAT for partitions that are smaller than 2 GB and FAT32 for partitions that are larger than 2 GB.

Strangely enough, Windows XP Setup cannot create a FAT32 partition that is smaller than 2 GB, nor can it create a FAT32 partition that is larger than 32 GB. These limitations are not imposed by the FAT32 file system itself, as third-party utilities can be used to format FAT32 partitions smaller than 2 GB or greater than 32 GB.

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windows release dates
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windows xp (1st edition) Oct 2001
windows xp (sp1) Sep 2002
windows xp (sp2) Aug 2004
Vista (business) November 30, 2006
Vista (home) Jan 2007
windows XP (sp3) Apr 2008
windows 7 (1st edition) July 2009
windows 7 (sp1) July 12, 2010
windows 7 (sp2) February 22, 2011