Windows NT or Windows XP?

[Cesar Aciar]

Dear PC users,
My Dell PC came originally with a WinMe
OS.Eventually Dell sent me a Windows XP Update CD that
would actually update my OS to XP.I did that and I have
been using Windows XP since then. When running a Windows
XP Printer Test Page under the heading "Environment"
shows "Windows NT x86", never Windows XP. I ignored that
heading for a couple of years. Yesterday I ran "Regedit"
and I noticed that under HKey_Current_User, then clicked
on Software,then on Microsoft, a heading "Windows NT "
appears and going to Current Version it also shows a
whole series of settings. Should I remove that Windows NT
part of the Registry. Will it affect my PC at all? The
Windows XP CD I have is a DELL UPDATE to XP. In the past
I had some crashes and Re-installed XP quite easily. It
appears that my CD contains NT version.Thanks for any
help.

[HillBillyBuddhist]

"Cesar Aciar" > wrote in message
...
> Dear PC users,
> My Dell PC came originally with a WinMe
> OS.Eventually Dell sent me a Windows XP Update CD that
> would actually update my OS to XP.I did that and I have
> been using Windows XP since then. When running a Windows
> XP Printer Test Page under the heading "Environment"
> shows "Windows NT x86", never Windows XP. I ignored that
> heading for a couple of years. Yesterday I ran "Regedit"
> and I noticed that under HKey_Current_User, then clicked
> on Software,then on Microsoft, a heading "Windows NT "
> appears and going to Current Version it also shows a
> whole series of settings. Should I remove that Windows NT
> part of the Registry. Will it affect my PC at all? The
> Windows XP CD I have is a DELL UPDATE to XP. In the past
> I had some crashes and Re-installed XP quite easily. It
> appears that my CD contains NT version.Thanks for any
> help.

Leave it alone. XP is based on the NT kernel. What you're seeing is normal
and correct for XP.

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[Ken Blake]

In , Cesar Aciar wrote:

> Dear PC users,
> My Dell PC came originally with a WinMe
> OS.Eventually Dell sent me a Windows XP Update CD that
> would actually update my OS to XP.I did that and I have
> been using Windows XP since then. When running a Windows
> XP Printer Test Page under the heading "Environment"
> shows "Windows NT x86", never Windows XP. I ignored that
> heading for a couple of years. Yesterday I ran "Regedit"
> and I noticed that under HKey_Current_User, then clicked
> on Software,then on Microsoft, a heading "Windows NT "
> appears and going to Current Version it also shows a
> whole series of settings. Should I remove that Windows NT
> part of the Registry. Will it affect my PC at all? The
> Windows XP CD I have is a DELL UPDATE to XP. In the past
> I had some crashes and Re-installed XP quite easily. It
> appears that my CD contains NT version.Thanks for any
> help.


No, do *not* remove that part of the registry. "XP" is just a
marketing name. What's you're actually running *is* Windows NT,
specifically Windows NT 5.1.

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