5 Commissioning and operation5.7 Operating system XP-503 with Windows 10 Enterprise LTSCXP-503 04/2020 MN048014 EN Eaton.com 515.7 Operating system XP-503 with Windows 10 Enterprise LTSCThe XP-503-..-…-…-2B bzw. XP-503-..-…-…-2V standard devices are pre-installed with the MicrosoftWindows 10 Enterprise LTSC operating system.If your XP-503 is not a standard device or is operated with a different operating system theseoperating system specific descriptions may or may not apply to your device.5.7.1 UpdatesEaton regularly publishes patches and updates for its products to protect them against anyvulnerabilities that are discovered. Eaton encourages customers to consistently monitor theavailability of new firmware updates and to install them promptly. Please check followingEaton website for available firmware and software updates: Eaton.eu/softwareThe general functions of the Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC operating system can be found in theopen-access system descriptions from Microsoft®.The following instructions describe only specific functions of the XP-503 standard devices operatingwith 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 operatingsystem have a unique and exclusive Protect Mode™ feature that safeguards the integrity of filesstored on the C:\ drive of your operating system. This feature ensures that data and operating systemfiles cannot be modified by anyone or corrupted by unexpected power disruptions. As a result, youcan be confident that the XP-503 meets your rigorous industrial environmental requirements and canbe protected against all unauthorized alterations.If Protect Mode is enabled, file write operations such as "delete," "edit," and "create new" will beexecuted in temporary memory only. When the device is restarted, these write operations will bedeleted and the protected data storage medium will have all its original data intact, i.e., the device willalways 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 disabledor 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 filesThe 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.