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5.6 XP-503 with Windows Embedded Standard 7
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5.6
XP-503 with Windows Embedded Standard 7
The XP-503 standard devices are pre-installed with the Microsoft Windows Embedded Standard 7
operating system. If your XP-503 is not a standard device or is operated with a different operating
system these operating system specific descriptions may or may not apply to your device.
The general functions of the Windows Embedded Standard 7 operating system can be found in the
open-access system descriptions from Microsoft
®
.
The following instructions describe only specific functions of the XP-503 standard devices operating
with the Windows Embedded Standard 7 operating system.
5.6.1
Protect Mode (Operated with two drives, C:\ and D:\)
The Eaton XP-503 family of products running the Windows Embedded Standard 7 operating system
have a unique and exclusive Protect Mode™ feature that safeguards the integrity of files stored on
the C:\ drive of your operating system. This feature ensures that data and operating system files
cannot be modified by anyone or corrupted by unexpected power disruptions. As a result, you can be
confident that the XP-503 meets your rigorous industrial environmental requirements and can be
protected against all unauthorized alterations.
If Protect Mode is enabled, file write operations such as "delete," "edit," and "create new" will be
executed in temporary memory only. When the device is restarted, these write operations will be
deleted and the protected data storage medium will have all its original data intact, i.e., the device will
always start in its original state. This means that any file changes that need to be made on drive C:\
(operating system settings, installed software) must be carried out either with Protect Mode disabled
or using the appropriate special Protect Mode functions in order to save the changes permanently.
This applies to the following settings:
Operating system functionality
Time/date data
Ethernet port settings
Windows registry settings
Windows driver installations
Visualization runtime software and communications drivers
Visualization project files
The Protect Mode feature is based on the Windows Embedded EWF (Enhanced Write Filter)
function. Descriptions of the detailed manual operations can be found on the Internet.
