xp home x64:
An exciting new look
Windows XP Home x64 Edition sports a brand-new visual design that combines a sleek look, clean lines, and appealing colors with a task-oriented design and exceptionally streamlined navigation.
The redesigned Start menu makes it easier to find important information and to access the programs you use most frequently.
By automatically cleaning up the notification area of the taskbar and grouping related taskbar items, Windows XP makes it easier to switch between programs and to open, view, or close multiple items at the same time.
Get up and running with the latest updates
Windows Update provides you with critical software updates and hardware support files for your Windows XP computer. You can choose to have Setup check the Windows Update Web site to ensure that you have the latest updates to make your Windows installation go smoothly.
Stay connected with friends and family
Your computer can now be a complete, easy-to-use communications center so you can stay connected to your friends and family.
Windows XP Home x64 Edition includes new real-time communications integration so you can communicate with others via instant messaging, voice, and video. Plus, you can share files and programs, and work together--all within one easy-to-use location.
Built-in fax support helps you send faxes directly from your favorite programs and receive faxes right from your computer.
Explore your creative side with photos and videos
Windows XP enhances your ability to share photos and videos with your friends and family. You can easily download pictures from your digital camera into the My Pictures folder.
The improved My Pictures folder shows thumbnail views of your pictures, so it’s easy to find the ones you want. And the tasks in the My Pictures folder help you publish your favorite pictures to the Web or send them through e-mail to quickly share with friends and family. You can even use the Photo Printing Wizard to easily print photos in any size and quantity.
Music and entertainment just got better
Windows XP has been designed from the ground up to be the best operating system for digital music and entertainment. Now it is easier than ever for you to find, organize, and play back your music and movies, listen to Internet radio, and even transfer files to your portable devices.
Windows Media™ Player delivers new Windows XP features such as faster audio CD burning, DVD playback (when configured with a supported third party DVD decoder), and full-screen video controls. The new My Music folder makes it fast and fun to organize your Windows Media Audio and existing MP3 music collections.
Windows Movie Maker makes it easy and fun to capture, create, and share home movies
Movie Maker helps you easily create great home movies to share with friends and family and preserve your memories. With Movie Maker, you just transfer movies from your analog or digital video camera to your computer, then put your favorite clips together (and cut out the ones you don’t like), add music, narration, and title slides—even still photographs. With superior compression technology, movies created with Movie Maker are small enough to easily e-mail or post to a Web site.
Try the easiest Windows yet
Windows XP makes it easy to manage all of your information. We've enhanced the My Documents, My Pictures, and My Music folders to make them more useful. Now whenever you open these folders, you’ll also see handy shortcuts to the most common tasks for documents, pictures, and music.
Integrated support for Web publishing means that you can put your documents on the Internet and get to them from any location.
Your computer will be faster and more reliable
Windows XP Home x64 Edition not only starts faster than any previous version of Windows, but it also runs your programs more quickly and reliably than ever. If a program becomes unstable, you can close it without having to shut down Windows or lose any of your work.
Easily move documents and personal settings to a new computer
If you’ve had a computer for a while, you’ve probably gotten it set up the way you like. Files are organized a certain way, you have bookmarked a long list of favorite Web sites, and you’ve customized your desktop just the way you want it.
Those personal settings won’t be wiped out when you buy a new computer with Windows XP. With the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard, it's simple to move your files and settings from one computer to another via your home network, a shared hard drive, or even floppy disks.
Create a personal computing experience
Windows XP Home x64 Edition makes it easy to create individual accounts for everyone who uses your computer. This means that each user who logs on can create an individualized computing environment, allowing him or her to keep favorite programs and desktop settings.
If your family shares a computer, Windows XP Home x64 Edition allows each user to quickly switch to his or her own user account without having to close down and restart the previous user's programs or desktop settings.
Connect to the Web
If you want to use the Internet, it has never been easier or faster to get started.
The New Connection Wizard helps you connect to the Internet and sign up with an Internet service provider of your choice. You'll be online in no time!
Surfing the Internet: safe, fast, and flexible
Windows XP includes the most secure version of Internet Explorer to date. Many new features help enhance the security and privacy of information that you send and receive over the Internet, while simplifying the daily tasks that you perform. New innovative browser capabilities--such as a pop-up blocker, the ability to control plug-ins, and more--let you experience the Web exactly the way that you want.
Have more fun with games
DirectX 8/9 makes a computer running Windows XP Home x64 Edition the ideal platform for playing the latest games, as well as running other programs that feature full-color graphics, video, 3-D animation, or surround sound.
With enhanced network support, you can play games with your family or housemates over a home network, or challenge an anonymous competitor over the Internet.
Connect your computers with easy home networking
As more families come to own more than one computer, it's becoming important to be able to share resources such as files, printers, and modems among multiple computers. With Windows XP Home x64 Edition, you can set up a home network to share software, documents, and equipment with ease.
The Network Setup Wizard takes you step by step through the process of networking your computers and peripheral devices. Create a network with confidence!
Internet Connection Sharing also enables all the networked computers in your home to share a single Internet connection such as a phone line, DSL, or cable modem.
Record a CD as easily as saving information to a floppy disk
CD-Recordable (CD-R) drives and CD-Rewritable (CD-RW) drives are now affordable options on most home computers.
Windows XP Home x64 Edition makes it easy to copy photos, movies, or music to a CD. It also supports integrated CD recording, so that you can easily save files to a CD-R or CD-RW drive.
Rely on Windows for dependable home computing
Built on the proven reliability of Windows 2000, Windows XP Home x64 Edition offers features that improve the stability of your computer.
Windows XP Home x64 Edition does a great job at managing important files within the operating system to keep them from being deleted or replaced, which makes it the most reliable Windows ever.
Get support for the programs and devices you use at home
Windows XP Home x64 Edition supports a large number of programs and has built-in support for the latest computer hardware, including DVD devices, digital cameras, and scanners.
You'll have access to a list of compatible programs and hardware support files, and updates to your computer can be made automatically for you if you choose.
When you insert a floppy disk, ZIP disk, CD, or memory card from your digital camera, Windows XP identifies the content (such as pictures, music, or video), and automatically starts the appropriate program.
Stay up to date
With Windows XP Home x64 Edition installed, you won't have to search computer updates online or rely on word of mouth to stay up to date. Windows XP helps make sure your computer "just works" by offering you the latest updates to help you troubleshoot known issues. You can install the updates immediately or ask Windows to remind you at a more convenient time.
Most updates can be made automatically, without interfering with your current work or slowing down your computer.
Experience the ultimate in safety, security, and privacy
Building on the security of Windows 2000, Windows XP Home x64 Edition provides the latest technologies to keep your data safe from unauthorized access.
Home networking is enhanced with the Internet Connection Firewall to help protect your home network from unauthorized access while you're connected to the Internet.
Be assured of greater accessibility
Windows XP Home x64 Edition provides accessibility features that make it easier for people to use computers.
The Accessibility Wizard helps you customize your computer screen, keyboard, and mouse to fit your needs.
To make items on the screen easier to see, you can increase the contrast, enlarge the text, and have your mouse pointer leave a trail. You can customize keyboard options and replace computer sounds with visual alerts.
Windows XP also includes basic utilities that allow you to magnify the screen or use an on-screen keyboard. You can start these utilities from the Utility Manager–even when logging on to your computer–by pressing the Windows logo key + U.
Now it's easier to get help--and to help others!
If you need to find your way around Windows XP or troubleshoot a problem, then you'll appreciate the ease of finding answers in the content-rich new world of Help and Support Center.
From one central location, you can find your system configuration, keep your computer up to date, check for software and hardware compatibility, and search across multiple sources of help and troubleshooting content on the Web as well as on your computer--quickly and easily!
If you prefer to ask friends or co-workers to help fix a problem on your computer, just send them a Remote Assistance request. Then, with your permission, they can use their own computer to view your desktop and help you just as easily as if they were in the same room.
Enjoy using Windows XP!
If you would like more details on the new features built into Windows XP, the Windows Start menu can point you to several options. Click Help and Support to find articles, overviews, and tutorials on specific features.
Or click Help and Support and type "walkthroughs" into the Search box to find articles that help you explore. You can also take a Tour from the Start menu to enjoy a visual review of the next generation of Windows for home computing.
Thank you for purchasing Windows XP Home x64 Edition. We hope that you enjoy the many new features of this Windows version.
