1997 With the Internet Explorer 4.0 the Active Desktop is offered as an extension for the installation. 486 CPU or RISC-based CPU, such as Alpha, MIPS or PowerPC The files used for the Registry are NTUSER.DAT from the respective user directory, default (standard user profile), system (hardware configuration), software (installed programs), Security (control of the access list) and Sam (user account and passwords), in the directory 'C:/Winnt/system32/config/'. Other configuration files plays only a minor roll opposite to previous NT versions and of course Windows 9x. The Registry is fully responsible for the user settings, system configuration, hardware and software settings and others.

There in addition are the Windows NT Server 4.0 Terminal Edition. Windows NT is availably in a Server Edition (up to 4 CPUs) in a Workstation Version (up to 2 CPUs) and Enterprise Server Edition (up to 8 CPUs).

Only with special graphics boards and specified driver software approximately the overlay mode is possible for the faster playback of videos. Windows NT does not allow direct access to the hardware and controls all accesses. Standards from the UNIX world like TCP/IP protocols and Posix Guidelines are also includet. Through this an improvement in the performance has happen opposite the earlier versions. The complete graphic engine, user, GDI and graphic driver software were transferred by the user mode into the kernel mode. The user interface of Windows 95 was united and revised with the stability and accuracy of Windows NT and integrated into this new version. Windows NT 4.0 Workstation The operating system Windows New Technology in the current version 4.0 of July 1996 was developed further considerably to the predecessor NT 3.51.

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