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Windows XP is the latest version in the series of Windows products in the Operating System. The never tiring Microsoft development team,a...

Windows XP is the latest version in the series of Windows products in the Operating System.

The never tiring Microsoft development team,at last bought the stability of NT and the compatibility of 9x,under one roof ,which resulted in Windows XP Professional through Windows XP home . Windows XP professional is designed to satisfy the insatiable demand of the business community but its immediate predecessors ,Windows XP home targeted home users. The never ending race of ever increasing demand and the quest for satisfying them may continue leading to the vocation of more and more sophisticated with user-friendly products.
If the computer is not already turned on,turn on the computer. If you are the lone user you will be taken into the Windows XP desktop directly . Suppose there are multi-users ,you will be shown a welcome screen. The aim of logging in is to take you to Windows XP desktop.
You can select your account u clicking the appropriate icon or username.. If you do not have a user account ,do not worry,there is guest account which you can make use of . You all know PC means Personal Computer. A single person or is family used a computer earlier which made them to store his/ their data secretly. When many different people start to work in the same computer ,secrecy cannot be maintained .We cannot afford to provide each one with a computer. Such proposition is a costly affair. How about making the people to believe that they are working in their own computers even though they work in the same computer? Windows XP is used to refer to Windows XP Professional . You could use a password or not to enter User Account. This trick is achieved by a user account . If you have a user account in Windows XP Professional ,you will be provided with a separate My Computer ,My Documents  and some other folders . If you commit mistake while you enter your password ,ypu will be prompted to enter your password again, with some help from the computer.Caution must be taken to enter your password because it is case sensitive .Your 'A' is different from 'a'. When you are in the welcome screen ,Ctrl+Alt+Del  key combinations ,provide you the dialog box for entering the username and password . If you successfully enter your password ,you will be taken to Windows XP Desktop.If your computer is on a network ,you may be shown a dialogue window that requests your ID and Password .

In Windows XP ,the basic working platform is the desktop.All the programs in  your computer are available on the desktop.Here,instead of your hand ,you use the mouse pointer to point to things and select them . The desktop has several icons .Each icon has a label telling you the name of the application it represents . My Computer,My Documents ,My Recent Documents are some of the standard icons that you can see on the windows desktop.Each of these icons represents an application that is frequently used. Apart from the standard icons provided by Windows ,you can also create icons for the applications that you use frequently and place them on on the desktop. The desktop also contains the Taskbar , which is usually a narrow strip ,present at the bottom of the screen. On the left ,it has the start button .When you click on the start button ,the Start menu appears on the left side of the screen. Using the Start menu,you can start any application that you have currently installed. Next to the start button is the Quick Launch Toolbar. One advantage of using Windows XP is the easy access it provides to the Internet ; through the quick launch toolbar which contains icons that allow you to select some commonly used Interned-related applications . On the right extreme is the System Tray that contains the Clock and icons for other utilities.The empty space between the Quick Launch Toolbar and the System Tray is used to display buttons for the applications currently being used.