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Microsoft Windows XP Beta 2 - Part I - Interface Changes
   
 Date  : Apr 28th, 2001
 Category  : Operating System
 Publisher   : Microsoft
 Author  : Peter Novotny
The biggest change to the interface is the context sensitive menu in My Computer / Windows Explorer. It changes according to what folder/drive/device is selected, and so far I have not been able to disable it. It gives you access to items which are usually available when right clicking. As you can see, it is very distracting when browsing the contents of folders/drives. The picture on the right is Windows Explorer view and the left picture is My Computer view of the same folder.

Quite a few other things have changed as well. Here are some other screenshot of how to look of Windows has changed :


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This came up after I inserted the CD I just burned, since there is no auto start on this data CD, Windows wanted to know what I to do with the CD - it would be useful if you had a CD full of pictures...

Notice how it says Windows 2000? Somebody at Microsoft forgot to change this registry key...


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This is a screen shot of IE downloading, notice the cool looking green status bar.. it is very eye pleasing...

This is what the Connect To dialog box looks like (notice the temporary bitmap text), this is what comes up when trying to connect to shared drive on another computer.


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After I plugged my camera into the USB port, this bubble popped up... Nice little pop-up telling that the print job was finished instead of an annoying message on the screen.

This browsing the My Pictures folder. Notice how the folder icon is made up out of four pictures, very nice....


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