These new icons are displayed in the shell when icon, thumbnail, or the new Tiles view is selected. We encourage developers to author 16x16, 32x32, and 48x48 icons for your applications and devices in this new color depth using the new icon tools and guidelines. Support Fast User Switching Ensure you're using profiles for data separation and test with Terminal Services. Be sure to release contestable resources and have services notify the foreground session. Use Shell Folders to find special folders Windows XP has many new specialized folders to help the user organize and retrieve documents and multimedia files.
Folders come with added functionality relating to the type of media stored in the folder.
Please use the APIs in ShFolder.dll to locate these folders and distribute it with your products for downlevel compatibility. In Windows XP, the maximum DPI setting is now 480dpi, which allows text that is not only more legible, but also of much higher quality than an equivalent 96 DPI monitor. Items that utilize this font feature are, for example, dialog boxes, buttons, title bars, and input by pen and speech. Applications can include manifests that describe their dependencies on system components such as MFC or Comctrl32. Your application can ensure it will consistently get the version of the component that you tested with, to prevent updates from causing problems in the future.