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5.7 Operating system XP-503 with Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC
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5.7
Operating system XP-503 with Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC
The XP-503-..-…-…-2B bzw. XP-503-..-…-…-2V standard devices are pre-installed with the Microsoft
Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 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.
5.7.1
Updates
Eaton regularly publishes patches and updates for its products to protect them against any
vulnerabilities that are discovered. Eaton encourages customers to consistently monitor the
availability of new firmware updates and to install them promptly. Please check following
Eaton website for available firmware and software updates:
The general functions of the Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 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 10 Enterprise LTSC operating system.
5.7.2
Protect Mode (Operated with two drives, C:\ and D:\)
The Eaton XP-503 family of products running the Windows Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 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 UWF (Unified Write Filter) function.
Descriptions of the detailed manual operations can be found on the Internet.
