| Description |
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MicroXP v0.8
by eXPerience
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Thank you for trying this special "MicroXP" edition of Windows XP.
With a total installation size of just 200Mb and a CD size of just
99.9Mb, this has to be one of the smallest Windows XP installations
out there.
Whats more - you can use 99% of the programs you always use and
up to now there is not one single report of any game not working
in MicroXP.
This installation takes only 4 Minutes 20 seconds.
This install includes default XP drivers for Ethernet/Sound/SCSI/RAID
It has all languages kept, except Chinese/Japanese/Korean.
It has all keyboard layout choices kept.
It also has Service Pack 3 final slipstreamed into it.
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[Statistics]
Installation time, in VMware, from
ISO file, from end of formatting .......... 4 Mins 20 Secs
RAM Usage On First Installation ........... 32.2 Mb
Handles ................................... 1871
Threads ................................... 131
Processes ................................. 13
Entire Install Size ....................... 200Mb
"Documents and settings" folder size ...... 1.59 Mb
"Program Files" folder size ............... 2.79 Mb
"WINDOWS" folder size ..................... 194 Mb
Files In System32 ......................... 790
ISO File Size ............................. 99.9 Mb
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[Services Remaining In Windows]
Cryptographic Services
DCOM Server Process Launcher
DHCP Client
Event Log
Logical Disk Manager
Logical Disk Manager Administrative Service
Network Connections
Plug and Play
Print Spooler
Remote Access Auto Connection Manager
Remote Access Connection Manager
Remote Procedure Call
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
Telephony
Windows Audio
Windows Installer
Wireless Zero Configuration
All these services are enabled except "Print Spooler"
which you will need to enable in "services.msc".
To use the functionality you need, for example: a printer,
just click the green square icon near the start button.
There you can double click the service you need to use and even a
novice user can now read the service descriptions and decide what
to enable and what to keep disabled.
For example if you have a Dial-Up connection (for example: ADSL
Broadband) then it says "Dial-Up Connection" in the services as
opposed to the long and overly technical descriptions put in by
Microsoft by default.
The services window can be set so you can see all service names
and all columns in the services window are fully visible. Just
click "Standard" at the bottom and double click all the columns
at the top where the top row joins the columns. When you install
some programs, they might put a new service in and add their own
long and overly technical descriptions, nevermind, its nice whilst
it lasts.
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[eXPerience Desktop Folder Contents]
Desktop Icon Layout (Lets you save your desktop icon layout)
Driver Install Tool (Easily install all your drivers, see ReadMe)
Keyboard Settings (Quick access to Regional and Language options)
Registry Backup (Make a complete backup of the registry in one click)
Services Config (Files to enable and disable functionality)
Web Browser (Browzar, to download a full browser of YOUR choice)
Windows Media Player 11 (This is just a readme file about WMP11)
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[WHAT YOU CANNOT DO]
This is a greatly reduced installation of Windows XP Professional SP3
Please read these notes BEFORE using this edition of Windows:
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- STANDALONE SYSTEM ONLY
No local networking is possible. The "Network Connections" service
has been kept in this edition of Windows to stop errors when
installing Ethernet card or modem drivers. The "Network Connections"
service is not there to support LAN networking. You can of course
just try to plug another computer into your MicroXP computer, but
networking in this way is not guaranteed to work, because the
related services for this are removed (Computer Browser and
Workstation).
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- SINGLE USER ONLY
You cannot add any additional users. Do not try to add more users,
otherwise your main account that is used by default (Administrator)
will become the new account and after logging in, you will not have
any desktop theme (not even Classic) and the whole account will be
ruined. You'll probably have to install Windows again because if
you make a new account it replaces "Administrator" and tries to
log you in with "Default User" - the problem with this is - there
is no "Default User" anymore.
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- NO WEBCAMS, SCANNERS OR DIGITAL CAMERAS
You cannot use these devices in this version of Windows, because the
"Windows Image Acquisition" service is removed.
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- NO NATIVE SUPPORT FOR FTP SITES
There is no "built in" support for downloading from FTP sites,
try using Filezilla or WS_FTP if you need to do that. Even just
Opera or Firefox can probably do it. This functionality is gone
because the "Application Layer Gateway" service is gone, along
with ALG.EXE that normally runs in Task Manager, taking up about
6Mb RAM for what amounts to no reason.
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- NO VISITING WINDOWS UPDATE
You cannot visit Windows Update with this version of Windows
because Internet Explorer is removed. You can manually download
updates from Microsoft and you can also use the alternative
"Windiz" Update website through Opera or Firefox. Because so
much has been removed from this edition of Windows, you are not
likely to be any more "safe" installing updates for Windows.
NOTE: Because this edition of Windows uses a patched
"winlogon.exe" in order to remove the "oembios.bin" file,
you really should not update Windows anyway, in case
"winlogon.exe" gets replaced by an update. There are more
details about this in the eXPerience folder on the desktop
once MicroXP is installed.
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- NO FAST USER SWITCHING
Apart from you only being able to have the one account anyway
(Administrator) the ability to do Fast User Switching is also
removed.
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- NO PASSWORD STORAGE/AUTOCOMPLETE
Windows will not save stored passwords, however, this only really
applied to Internet Explorer and Outlook Express, which are removed.
You will be fine using Firefox or Opera web browsers and Thunderbird
email client for emails. Those are self contained programs and take
care of storing your passwords by themselves.
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- NO CD-ROM AUTOPLAY
When you insert a CD that would bring up a screen to install the
program contained on the CD, this does not happen in this version
of Windows, you will have to explore the CD manually and run
whatever file it is that runs the program's setup, usually
"setup.exe" on the root of the CD. If the CD has a file called
"AUTORUN.INF" then open that file and look at which .exe file
is listed in "AUTORUN.INF"
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- NO SMART CARD DETECTION
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- NO SCHEDULED TASKS
You cannot set programs, like AntiVirus or Hard Disk Defrag programs
to run in the future IF they need the Scheduled Tasks service in
Windows. If you are going to run those types of programs you will
have to manually scan or defrag whenever it is convenient. Despite
this, one program that will schedule its operations is Perfectdisk
defrag, you do not need Task Scheduler for this program to run a
scheduled defrag.
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- NO REMOTE DESKTOP
There is no Remote Desktop in this version of Windows
because the "Terminal Services" service is removed.
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- NO THEMES
You cannot have the Luna (Blue/Olive/Silver) desktop theme in this
version of Windows, the only theme you can choose is "Windows
Classic" which it is already set to by default. You can however
install "Windowblinds" if you want to and it will work fine,
Windowblinds does not rely on the Themes service. You could even
make MicroXP look like Vista with the "Ironjer" AeroGlass The
Remix V4. Use v4 not v5 of that if you use it.
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- NO "UNINTERRUPTIBLE POWER SUPPLY" SERVICE
I always thought "UPS Service" delivered parcels but apparently not,
if you have this type of device then it will not work on this version
of Windows. A UPS is only used for emergencies like if you have
a power cut - thats if you even have such a device.
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