Windows XP Professional - Support

This white paper details the basics of certificate status, chain building, and how they work in Windows operating systems to assist administrators in troubleshooting a PKI implementation.

This article is a support aid to help diagnose wireless connection and authentication issues. It is meant to provide an advanced level of wireless diagnostics procedures by analyzing tracing logs generated by wireless components.

Describes how Windows Firewall works, common problems, general methodologies for determining traffic exceptions, and the set of tools you can use to troubleshoot issues.

This article provides a technical walkthrough that illustrates how to use important data recovery and protection features in Windows XP. Also included are best practices and the steps you need to take to build an effective data recovery and protection strategy.

This article outlines how Internet drafts dealing with standards for TCP/IP become RFCs. It includes a table listing the RFCs and Internet drafts related to the implementation of the IPv6 protocol in Microsoft® Windows® XP and Microsoft Windows Server 2003.

This article provides answers to some of the most commonly asked questions about a variety of Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), Network Address Translation (NAT), and UPnP NAT Traversal issues.

This article provides a guide to using key features in the Help and Support Center in Windows XP.

This article directs you to the Windows XP Events and Errors search page and instructs you how to open the Event Viewer.

This is the home page for the Windows XP Events and Errors search page.

This page contains a sampling of useful XP-related articles from the Microsoft Knowledge Base.

This page contains help with troubleshooting Windows Update v.5 Authentication Issues

This resource kit documentation is a comprehensive technical resource for installing, configuring, and supporting Windows XP Professional and Microsoft® Windows® XP 64-Bit Edition in networks that use Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server, Microsoft Windows NT® Server 4.0, and other server systems.

This article describes System Restore, a utility used to return your system to a workable state without requiring a complete reinstallation and without compromising your data files.

Read the transcript of a chat between users and technical experts about this topic.

Learn how to deploy and manage Microsoft Windows® XP Professional and Microsoft Office XP more efficiently and effectively with Microsoft XP Desktop deployment training.

Purchase the hard-copy version of Microsoft Windows® XP Professional Resource Kit and get comprehensive technical information and insights--direct from the Microsoft® Windows® XP product development team.