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Sound Recorder can record audio from a microphone or headset. In addition, many modern sound cards allow their output channels to be recorded through a loopback channel, typically called "Wave-Out Mix" or "Stereo Mix". Before Windows Vista, Sound Recorder was capable of: Playing the audio files that it has recorded.
Windows Vista. Security and Maintenance. Centralizes and reports on the status of anti-virus, Automatic Updates, Windows Firewall, and other security-related components of the operating system. Windows XP SP2. Administrative Tools. Microsoft Management Console.
Graphics Device Interface. For example GDK makes use of GDI. The Graphics Device Interface ( GDI) is a legacy component of Microsoft Windows responsible for representing graphical objects and transmitting them to output devices such as monitors and printers. It was superseded by DirectDraw API and later Direct2D API. [citation needed]
Security issues. Windows XP has been criticized for its vulnerabilities due to buffer overflows and its susceptibility to malware such as viruses, trojan horses, and worms. Nicholas Petreley for The Register notes that "Windows XP was the first version of Windows to reflect a serious effort to isolate users from the system, so that users each ...
Windows Speech Recognition ( WSR) is speech recognition developed by Microsoft for Windows Vista that enables voice commands to control the desktop user interface, dictate text in electronic documents and email, navigate websites, perform keyboard shortcuts, and operate the mouse cursor. It supports custom macros to perform additional or ...
Windows XP is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. It was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and later to retail on October 25, 2001. It is a direct upgrade to its predecessors, Windows 2000 for high-end and business users and Windows Me for home users, and is available for any devices running Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98, Windows 2000, or Windows Me that meet ...
Windows Me: 2000-09-14 Windows XP: 2001-10-25 Windows XP Embedded: 2002-01-30 Windows XP Media Center Edition: 2002-10-28 Windows XP Tablet PC Edition: 2002-11-07 Windows XP 64-bit Edition: 2003-03-28 Windows Server 2003: 2003-04-24 Windows Small Business Server 2003: 2003-10-09 Windows XP Starter: 2004-08-11 Windows XP Professional x64 Edition ...
As of 2021, the old updates for 2000-Vista are still available on the Microsoft Update Catalog or through third-party services, such as Legacy Update, which is a community-driven third party replacement for the Windows Update servers from 2000, XP, Server 2003 and Vista or Windows Update Restored, which is another community-driven third-party ...