Web view in folders was disabled by default but can be reinstated by editing the registry.Small Icons view was removed from Windows Explorer.
The 3D Pipes teapot easter egg was also removed from Windows XP.
The 3D Maze and Flying Windows screensavers were removed (possibly due to the Windows logo having been changed). Users can set a pattern only with the Registry Editor. The option to select a Pattern under the Background (9x/NT)/ Desktop (XP) tab of Display Properties was removed. It is no longer possible to save or delete schemes under the Appearance tab of Display Properties. The Utopia sound scheme, first included in Windows 95 and included up to Windows Me, was removed. The previous wallpapers and tiles from Windows 95–98, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 including the Plus! wallpaper were removed. With the Desktop Themes utility in 2000 becoming the Themes tab in Display Properties in XP, the Rotate theme monthly option in Desktop Themes, which was introduced in Microsoft Plus! 98 and later included in Windows 2000, and both the options to select what parts of a theme to apply and the previews for parts of a theme were removed. The progress bar on the boot screen is now an indeterminate progress bar and not determinate like with Windows 2000. The "Starting Windows." message before the boot screen (which was present in Windows 2000) has been removed. Links to Phone Dialer and NetMeeting were removed from the Start menu. In the Command Prompt, QuickEdit mode and Insert mode are disabled by default. It is still possible to select these options using the Advanced button available under this tab, however Microsoft states that this workaround is unsupported. The VGA screen resolution and 8-bit color depth options have been removed from the Settings tab of Display Properties. Icons are always shown using all possible colors. The Show icons using all possible colors (which was previously introduced in Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0) option in Display Properties has been removed. It is still accessible through the ⊞ Win+ M keyboard shortcut but it is not available through the mouse. 
: 76 The purported replacement, Show the desktop, co-existed with this feature on Windows 2000 and in any case only hides windows temporarily instead of actually minimizing them. The Minimize all windows command on the taskbar was removed.Due to this being a toggle, simply aligning desktop icons once without further constraining their placement requires an extra click. The Line Up Icons command on the desktop was removed and replaced by the Align to Grid option.The balloon notification that warns the users when removing external flash storage devices without safe unmounting has been removed.As the next version of Windows NT after Windows 2000, as well as the successor to Windows Me, Windows XP introduced many new features but it also removed some others.
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