I've used WinXP BE for many years. Installed probably 20 different machines and several reinstalls on some of them since. Maybe even earlier. Hard to remember. I spent a fair bit of time interacting 2010-2011. Only reason I stopped was my last 32-bit system died about a year.

• • • Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, released on April 25, 2005, is an edition of for personal computers. It is designed to use the expanded 64-bit memory address space provided by the x86-64 architecture.

The primary benefit of moving to 64-bit is the increase in the maximum allocatable (RAM). Windows XP 32-bit is limited to a total of 4. Although the theoretical memory limit of a 64-bit computer is about 16 (17.1 billion gigabytes), Windows XP x64 is limited to 128 GB of physical memory and 16 [ ] of. Windows XP Professional x64 Edition uses the same kernel and code tree as and is serviced by the same service pack. However, it includes client features of Windows XP such as,,, Welcome Screen, and games, which Windows Server 2003 does not have.

Windows XP Professional x64 Edition is not to be confused with, as the latter was designed for architecture. During the initial development phases, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition was named Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems. Contents • • • • • • • • Advantages [ ] • Supports up to 128 GB of RAM. • Supports up to two physical (in separate physical sockets) and up to 64 logical processors (i.e. Or on a single CPU).

As such, As of 2014, the OS supports all commercially available multicore CPUs, including series, or series. • Uses the kernel which is newer than 32-bit Windows XP and has improvements to enhance scalability. Windows XP Professional x64 Edition also introduces (also known as PatchGuard) which can help improve security by helping to eliminate rootkits. • Supports -partitioned disks for data (but not bootable volumes) after SP1, which allows using disks greater than 2 TB to be used as a single GPT partition for storing data. • Allows faster encoding of audio or video, higher performance video gaming and faster in software optimized for 64-bit hardware.

• Ships with (IIS) version 6.0. All other 32-bit editions of Windows XP have IIS v5.1. • Ships with (WMP) version 10. Windows XP Professional shipped with WMP 8 (with WMP 9 shipping with Service Pack 2 and later), although WMP 11 is available for Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later. • Benefits from features and improvements made in Windows Server 2003.

• Benefits from features introduced in Windows Server 2003. [ ] • supports Unicode keyboard input, client-side time-zone redirection, GDI+ rendering primitives for improved performance, FIPS encryption, fallback printer driver, auto-reconnect and new Group Policy settings. • supports migrating settings from both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows XP PCs.

Software compatibility [ ] Windows XP Professional x64 Edition uses a technology named, which permits the execution of software. It was first used in (for architecture). Later, it was adopted for x64 editions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Since the x86-64 architecture includes hardware-level support for 32-bit instructions, WoW64 simply switches the process between 32- and 64-bit modes.

As a result, x86-64 architecture microprocessors suffer no performance loss when executing 32-bit Windows applications. On the Itanium architecture, WoW64 was required to translate 32-bit x86 instructions into their 64-bit Itanium equivalents—which in some cases were implemented in quite different ways—so that the processor could execute them.

All 32-bit processes are shown with *32 in the task manager, while 64-bit processes have no extra text present. Although 32-bit applications can be run transparently, the mixing of the two types of code within the same is not allowed. A 64-bit program cannot use a 32-bit (DLL) and similarly a 32-bit program cannot use a 64-bit DLL. This may lead to the need for library developers to provide both 32- and 64-bit binary versions of their libraries. Specifically, 32-bit for fail to work with 64-bit Windows Explorer. Windows XP x64 Edition ships with both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows Explorer. The 32-bit version can become the default Windows Shell.

Windows XP x64 Edition also includes both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of, so that user can still use or controls that are not available in 64-bit versions. Only 64-bit drivers are supported in Windows XP x64 Edition, but 32-bit are supported as long as the that uses them is 32-bit. Installation of programs [ ] By default, 64-bit (x86-64) Windows programs are installed onto their own folders under folder location 'C: Program Files', while 32-bit (x86-32) Windows programs are installed onto their own folders under folder location 'C: Program Files (x86)'. Known limitations [ ] There are some common issues that arise with Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.

• Does not include or, so Windows applications or native applications cannot run. Some old 32-bit programs use 16-bit installers which do not run; however, replacements for 16-bit installers such as ACME Setup versions 2.6, 3.0, 3.01, 3. Mestrenova Serial Macromedia. 1 and 5.x are hardcoded into to mitigate this issue. • Only 64-bit drivers are supported. • Any 32-bit shell extensions fail to work with 64-bit Windows Explorer.

However, Windows XP x64 Edition also ships with a 32-bit Windows Explorer. It is possible to make it the default Windows Shell. • does not load in full-screen. [ ] • No native support for. [ ] • Does not contain a Web Extender Client component for Web Folders (WebDAV). • Spell checking is not available in Outlook Express. • (FireWire) audio is not supported.

• Does not support if PC's RAM is greater than 4 GB. Service Packs [ ] The RTM version of Windows XP Professional x64 Edition is based on Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 codebase. Because Windows XP Professional x64 Edition comes from a different codebase than 32-bit Windows XP, its service packs are also developed separately.

For the same reason, Service Pack 2 for Windows XP x64 Edition, released on March 13, 2007, is not the same as Service Pack 2 for 32-bit versions of Windows XP. In fact, due to the earlier release date of the 32-bit version, many of the key features introduced by Service Pack 2 for 32-bit (x86) editions of Windows XP were already present in the RTM version of its x64 counterpart. Service Pack 2 is the last released service pack for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. References [ ].

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