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Windows XP is a major release of Microsoft 's Windows NT operating system. It is the direct successor to Windows 2000 for professional users and Windows Me for home users. It was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and later to retail on October 25, 2001.

Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 ("Symphony", October 2004) is the first edition of MCE available to non-Tier 1 system builders. Among other things it includes support for Media Center Extenders, and CD/DVD-Video burning support.

MSConfig is a troubleshooting tool which is used to temporarily disable or re-enable software, device drivers or Windows services that run during startup process to help the user determine the cause of a problem with Windows. Some of its functionality varies by Windows versions:

As the next version of Windows NT after Windows 2000, as well as the successor to Windows Me, Windows XP introduced many new features but it also removed some others. Contents 1 User interface and appearance 1.1 Graphics 1.2 ClearType 1.3 Start menu 1.4 Taskbar 1.5 Windows Explorer 1.5.1 Task pane 1.5.2 Navigation pane 1.5.3 Grouping and sorting

Configuration Manager Implements the system calls needed by Windows Registry. I/O Manager Allows devices to communicate with user-mode subsystems. It translates user-mode read and write commands into read or write IRPs which it passes to device drivers.