Yes.
Fat16 and Fat32
If you are installing windows XP with Windows 9x or me than the I would recommend you to use FAT32 as if you use NTFS than you wont be able to access Windows XP with NTFS partition. If you are installing Windows XP with Windows NT or Windows 2000 than you can use any partition type. But I would recommend to use NTFS.
FAT (file allocation table ) or FAT32 for external
Windows NT4 supports: FAT, NTFS (version 4) Windows 2000 supports: FAT, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS (versions 4 and 5)
Microsoft Office does not care about the file system at all. It can be run on any file system that compatible versions of Windows runs on (FAT32 and NTFS for XP, and just NTFS for Vista).
Windows NT4 Service Pack4 and Windows XP Professional
Windows 3.1 would have been installed on top of a standalone version of MS-DOS. All standalone versions of MS-DOS used FAT12 or FAT16. It is possible to run Windows 3.1 on top of later versions of MS-DOS with a FAT32 file system, but this would have been extremely uncommon.
File Explorer is a file management tool that is included in most versions of Windows software
Apislice.dll is an important file that support Windows processes applications such as Microsoft Office 2002 and 2003, Microsoft Visual Studio.NET versions 2002, 2003and 2005. In brief, Apislice.dll is a Windows core file.
No. The 3 character extension is a limitation of MS-DOS. Versions of Windows from Windows 95 and later support an arbitrary number of characters for a file extension, as long as the total filename length is 255 or less characters.
NetBSD, Windows, and Linux each support both FAT and NTFS file systems.
Windows XP natively supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS. Other file systems, such as HPFS, JFS, ext2/3, and ReiserFS can be supported through an IFS (Installable File System).