to Standby, Hibernate, Turn off, Restart, Log Off and Switch User. Holding down Ctrl while clicking New Task opens a command prompt. WMI Windows XP introduces WMIC.exe, the Windows Management Instrumentation console utility Beginning with Windows XP, WMI resides in a shared service host process called Wmiprvse.exe which can spawn multiple instances under different accounts: LocalSystem, NetworkService, or LocalService. Previously, WMI providers were loaded in-process with the WMI Service and a single WMI provider crashing led to the restart of the WMI core service, WinMgmt.exe. In Windows XP, MOF files are used to describe system ETW events. WMI Filters for Group Policy were introduced. Command-line tools Windows XP includes new command-line tools and WMI-based scripts: schtasks.exe (Windows Task Scheduler) shutdown.exe (Shutdown commands) Sc.exe (Service Control Manager) gpupdate.exe and gpresult.exe (Group Policy) logman.exe, relog.exe, typeperf.exe and tracerpt.exe (Performance Monitor) Eventquery.vbs, eventcreate.exe, EventTriggers.exe (Event log) DSquery.exe, dsget.exe, dsadd.exe, dsmod.exe, dsmove.exe, dsrm.exe (Active Directory) diskpart.exe, Defrag.exe and fsutil.exe (Disk management, Defragmentation and file system management) bootcfg.exe (Boot.ini) openfiles.exe (Networking) powercfg.exe (Power management) tasklist.exe, taskkill.exe, getmac.exe, systeminfo.exe, driverquery.exe, reg.exe, regini.exe, IPseccmd.exe (Windows 2000 Resource Kit). IIS*.vbs (IIS and Active Server Pages management) Prn*.vbs (Printing) Pagefileconfig.vbs (PageFile configuration) bitsadmin.exe, bindiff.exe, cabarc.exe, ftonline.exe, httpcfg.exe, ipseccmd.exe, netcap.exe, rasdiag.exe, spcheck.exe, tracepdb.exe (New support tools) Other management features CHKDSK has performance improvements. Non-persistent Shadow Copy (Volume Snapshot Service) support that uses a copy-on-write technique in order to create a snapshot and APIs to use the same MSConfig utility has been updated to configure advanced Boot.ini options graphically, enable or disable Windows services and launch built-in tools. NTBackup has a wizard-based interface for ease of use and supports backing up locked (in-use) files using Shadow Copy. Media pools created by NTBackup can also be viewed from the backup utility itself without opening Removable Storage Management. Microsoft Management Console 2.0 which introduced an automation object model, view extensions, visual style support, Console Taskpads etc. Increased number of WMI providers and classes. Unified Registry editor that combines Windows 9x's Regedit.exe and Windows NT's Regedt32.exe. The Registry Editor now supports multiple instances if the -m switch is specified. IExpress as part of Internet Explorer 6 to create self-extracting INF-based installation packages. Files and Settings Transfer Wizard and User State Migration Tool Several deployment tools improvements including enhancements to Sysprep, Setup Manager, introduction of WinPE. For example, the Product Key stored in the Answer file for Setup Manager or Sysprep can be stored encrypted.