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 The improved thumbnail view adds thumbnails to folder images so you can see what's inside. |  Internet Explorer 6 integrates with the Whistler UI and includes a new Personal Bar. |  You can add and remove bars from the new Personal Bar in IE 6. |
 The Search Companion, available in My Computer and IE 6, uses a new Agent character. |  Despite amazing improvements to the IE 6 user interface, Outlook Express 6 seems largely unchanged from previous versions. |  The new Help and Support Services application provides a pleasant, Web-enabled interface to help functionality. |
 Windows Update is now integrated into Help and Support, though it is still available from IE as well. |  A confusing array of update types is now available in Windows Update, along with new "basket" terminology. |  The feature everyone hates: Windows XP now includes Product Activation, which is designed to prevent casual copying. |
 IE 6 appears to render sites identically to IE 5.x. |  The beautiful new "welcome" screen is often mistaken for a PowerPoint slide, Microsoft tells me. |  Windows XP supports a variety of ways to shut down the system. Not shown here: Log-off and Fast User Switching. |
 Windows Media Player 8 integrates with the Whistler UI and offers a ton of new, user-requested features. |  When you rip CDs to Windows Media format, the containing folders automatically display an image of the CD's album cover. |
