It remained in use by businesses for a number of years, despite Microsoft's many efforts to get customers to upgrade to Windows and newer versions. The server editions of Windows NT 4. There are new administrative wizards and a lite version of the Network Monitor utility shipped with System Management Server. The Enterprise edition introduced Microsoft Cluster Server. This eliminated a process-to-process context switch in calling GDI functions, resulting in a significant performance improvement over Windows NT 3.
This, however, also mandated that graphics and printer drivers had to run in kernel mode as well, [21] resulting in potential stability issues. In early releases of 4. The change to move the GDI to run in the same process context as its caller was prompted by complaints from NT Workstation users about real-time graphics performance, but this change put a considerable onus on hardware manufacturers to update device drivers. Previous versions of Windows NT included the Task List utility, but it only shows applications currently on the desktop.
The task manager offers a more convenient way of getting a snapshot of all the processes running on the system at any given time. Internet Explorer 2 was bundled with Windows NT 4, with updated versions included with each service pack. While providing much greater stability than Windows 95, Windows NT 4.
Much of the stability was gained through the use of protected memory and the hardware abstraction layer. Direct hardware access was disallowed and 'misbehaving' programs were terminated without needing the computer to be restarted. The trade-off was that NT required much more memory 32 MB for normal desktop use, MB or more for heavy 3D applications in comparison to consumer targeted products such as Windows Third-party device drivers were an alternative to access the hardware directly, but poorly written drivers became a frequent source of the infamous error known as the Blue Screen of Death BSoD that would require the system to be restarted.
Many basic DOS programs would run; however, graphical DOS programs would not run because of the way they accessed graphics hardware. Although Windows NT 4. Also, Windows NT 4. The difference between the NT family and 9x family would remain until the release of Windows XP in On the other hand, the hardware itself had become powerful enough to handle the API processing overhead.
By comparison, Windows 95 fails to boot on computers with more than approximately MB of memory. Like previous versions of NT, version 4. Windows 95, however, can only run on x The last full service pack was Service Pack 6a SP6a. Service Pack 7 was planned at one stage in early , but this became the Post SP6a Security Rollup and not a full service pack, released on July 26, , 16 months after the release of Windows and nearly three months prior to the release of Windows XP.
Microsoft released five revisions of the Windows NT 4. Microsoft stopped providing security updates for Windows NT 4. According to the security bulletin, 'Due to [the] fundamental differences between Windows NT 4. Average 4. Good 5.
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