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Windows XP Starter Edition Overview
Windows XP Starter Edition is intended to be installed on entry-level computers for customers in emerging market countries. Windows XP Starter Edition is distributed in 139 countries and in 24 different languages. Windows XP Starter Edition is only available pre-installed on computers distributed by system builders and OEMs. Windows XP Starter Edition has the Windows classic theme, and a watermark of the Windows XP Starter Edition logo is displayed above the clock to distinguish Windows XP Starter Edition from other Windows XP Editions.
First-time home computer users can take advantage of the core Windows XP features in a simplified and more affordable version. To simplify the Windows operating system, some features are limited in Windows XP Starter Edition.
Listed below are some of the differences between Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Starter Edition.
This article discusses the differences and similarities between Windows XP Starter Edition and Windows XP Home Edition.
Some features are available in Windows XP Starter Edition only. For example, there is a special Help and Support Center and Getting Started Video. Multiple user accounts or a password to protect your computer cannot be created in Windows XP Starter Edition. Furthermore, right-click is disabled so the shortcut menus available in Windows XP Home Edition are not available in Windows XP Starter Edition.
In Windows XP Starter Edition, only three programs that have visible windows can be open at one time. For each program, only three windows can be open at one time. Hidden windows count towards the limit. If a background process launches a notification window and three windows are open for that program already, this window will not appear because the window limit has been exceeded.
In Windows XP Starter Edition, you can do many of the same entertainment-related tasks that you can do in Windows XP Home Edition. For example, you can burn a CD using the built in features of the operating system. You can also use Windows Movie Maker.
A Windows XP Starter Edition computer can connect to the Internet using a wireless, dial up, or high-speed connection and can access a server using FTP. A Windows XP Starter Edition computer can be connected to the Internet through a router, but it cannot be set up to belong to a network.
Computers running Windows XP Starter Edition cannot do the following:
· Connect to it from another computer.
· Use the CIFS protocol. CIFS - Common Internet File System - A standard remote file-system access protocol from Microsoft, which is a subset of the Server Message Block (SMB) file system protocol, and is used over the Internet to enable groups of users to work together and share documents across the Internet or within corporate intranets.
To set up a printer in Windows XP Starter Edition, the printer must be connected directly to the computer. In Windows XP Starter Edition, you cannot print to a network printer or a printer that is connected to another computer.
A major advantage of Windows XP Starter Edition is that it can be installed on computers with low-cost hardware. The system requirements needed to run Windows XP Starter Edition are listed below:
In Windows XP Starter Edition, the desktop cannot be extended onto a second monitor.
Windows XP Starter Edition has been localized into 24 languages.
The languages are:
English and multilingual versions that include English are geolocked. Therefore, the multilingual versions can only be used in regions where they have been released.
You can use Windows XP Starter Edition in English, Hindi, and Tamil for the recent release of XPSE for India. To switch between languages, you can use an easy to use wizard that enables the user to switch between languages. The Language interface pack (LIP) for Hindi and Tamil must be installed. You can change the display language by running the language customization wizard.
The security features of Windows XP Starter Edition protect and maintain a computer with antivirus, firewall, and antispyware functionality. The firewall is always enabled in Windows XP Starter Edition to provide a high level of security.
System Locked Preinstallation is a procedure used by major computer manufacturers in order to pre-activate Windows before mass distribution. The localized versions of Windows Starter XP support System Locked Preinstallation, but the English versions do not.
If you own a Windows XP Starter Edition computer, you can get technical support from the system builder or OEM that built your computer.
If you are a system builder or OEM, you can get support from the OPK.
You cannot upgrade from Windows XP Starter Edition to Windows XP Home Edition. Upgrading from Windows XP Starter Edition to Windows Vista Starter Edition is not possible also.
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