Fitur-fitur yang baru dan diperbarui
- Akses terbatas untuk mempercepat boot time
- Windows Media Player 7
- Windows Movie Maker
- System Restore
- Internet Explorer 5.5
- Compressed Folders sekarang mendukung file ZIP
- Automatic Updates
- On-Screen Keyboard
- Image Preview
- Windows Image Acquisition
- USB Human Interface Device Class
- Windows DVD Player
- System File Protection
- Games baru: Internet Checker, Internet Backgammon, Internet Spades, Internet Reversi, Internet Hearts, Spider Solitaire, dan Pinball
- DirectX 7.1
- Net Crawler
- Mendukung UPnP
- Dial-up Networking yang diperbarui
- System Monitor yang diperbarui
- Help and Support baru
- IntelliPoint
- Peningkatan dukungan aksesibilitas aktif di utilitas seperti Kalkulator dan Magnifier.
Fitur-fitur yang dihapus
- Mode real DOS
- Automated Installation
- Active Directory
- System Policy Editor
- Personal Web Server
- ASP
- Microsoft Fax
- QuickView
- DriveSpace
