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Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition brings customers the ultimate in innovation from Microsoft. Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition produces faster performance, and increased reliability and the flexibility for today’s most demanding users.

Windows XP Professional x64 Edition supports up to 128 GB of physical RAM and 16 TB of virtual memory, enabling the most demanding applications to run faster and more efficiently. The combination of Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and the x64 processor architecture allows technical workstation and power users to arm themselves with a 64-bit platform for new 64-bit applications, while continuing to run their existing 32-bit applications.

Windows XP Professional x64 Edition is primarily designed for customers who are pushing the memory limitations of 32-bit systems today.

Files

Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to September 2012.

The file listing may be incomplete because the download required Windows Genuine Advantage validation.

Supported operating systems: Windows XP Professional Edition

COMPUTER
Supported processors: AMD Athlon 64, AMD Opteron, Intel Xeon with Intel EM64T support, Intel Pentium 4 with Intel EM64T support.

Important: Windows XP Professional x64 Edition cannot be successfully installed on x86 (32-bit) systems or 64-bit Intel Itanium–based systems. 32-bit device drivers are not supported on Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.

MEMORY
256MB RAM

HARD-DISK
1.5 GB of available hard-disk space (additional space may be required if installing over a network)

DRIVE
CD-ROM or DVD drive

DISPLAY
Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher-resolution video adapter and monitor

OPTIONS
•Keyboard, Microsoft Mouse, Microsoft IntelliMouse®, or compatible pointing device
•28.8-Kbps modem or fax modem and service provider required for Internet access (service provider may charge a fee)
•Sound requires a sound card and speakers (USB speakers require a computer with USB support) or headphones
•Remote Assistance requires that both parties be running Windows XP and be connected over a network
•Remote Desktop requires a computer running Windows 95 or later and the two computers must be connected over a network
•DVD video playback requires a DVD drive and DVD decoder card or DVD decoder software and 8 MB of video RAM
•Windows Movie Maker video capture feature requires an appropriate digital or analog video capture device and 400-MHz or faster processor for digital video camera capture

•Investigate whether or not 64-bit device drivers are available for the components in your PC and the peripherals that you use (scanners, cameras etc). Since your 32-bit drivers will not work on this version of Windows, it is important that you make sure your devices are supported. You can find many of these supported devices on Marketplace.

•Back up your data and settings. Windows XP Professional x64 Edition requires a “clean installation”, meaning the contents of your hard drive will be erased during the installation.