Quote Originally Posted by wumply
OK, that answer answered my question. But it raised another one I've never found out the answer to. I hear the term "Windows NT" all the time. Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP(home, pro) are all operating systems. Is "Windows NT" as written here an actual operating system? And if it is, who uses it? Then I hear 'NTFS' a lot...New Technology System, right? That's not an O/S I assume...is it some sort of program on which Windows NT and XP are based? I need clarification. Thanks.
Windows NT was the business version of Windows about the same time as the Windows 98 era. It's the grandpa of Windows 2000 and XP. NTFS is the file system which is an improvement over the FAT file system. You can use FAT with Windows XP but it's not recommended.