MicroXP v0.5b - eXPerience
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Download:
Code:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3EQAV2VR
Password:
(m3d%c@0!F2(s^c$n
Thank you for trying MicroXP.
Statistics...
Installation Time From End Of Formatting: 4 Mins 50 Secs
RAM Usage On First Installation = 29.4 Mb
Handles = 1524
Threads = 125
Processes = 12
WINDOWS Folder = 193 Mb (includes 21Mb of DirectX Libraries)
Items In System32 = 542
ISO File Size = 88.1 Mb
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Services Remaining In Windows...
[AUTOMATIC]
DCOM Server Process Launcher
Event Log
Plug and Play
Remote Procedure Call
Windows Audio
[DISABLED]
DHCP Client
Network Connections
Remote Access Auto Connection Manager
Remote Access Connection Manager
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
Telephony
Wireless Zero Configuration
[MANUAL]
Windows Installer
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In the folder with this guide, there are two text files in case
you need to enable any of the above services that are disabled.
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Reduced Installation...
This is a greatly reduced installation of Windows XP Professional.
Please read these notes before using this edition of Windows:
[Standalone system only!]
No local networking is possible (LAN/workgroup). 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.
[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 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 re-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".
[No Webcams, Scanners or Digital Cameras!]
You cannot use these items in this version of Windows because the
"Windows Image Acquisition" service is removed.
[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. 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 for 99.99% of the time.
[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, but you will need to know which updates are required.
Because so much has been removed from this edition of Windows, you
are not likely to be any more "safe" installing updates for Windows.
[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.
[No Plugging In Hard Disks!]
You cannot use external hard drives you would plug in with this version
of Windows, because "Logical Disk Manager" is removed. For the same reason,
you cannot edit your current hard drive or change drive letters.
[No Printing!]
You cannot use a printer with this version of Windows,
because the "Print Spooler" service is removed.
[No Password Storage]
Windows will not save stored passwords, however, this only really applied
to Internet Explorer and Outlook Express, which are removed. You will be
OK using Firefox or Opera web browsers and Thunderbird email client for
emails. Those are self contained programs and take care of storing and
remembering your passwords by themselves.
[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.
[No Smart Card Detection!]
[No Scheduled Tasks!]
You cannot set programs, like AntiVirus or Hard Disk Defrag programs to run
in the future. 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.
[No Remote Desktop!]
There is no Remote Desktop in this version of Windows, because the "Terminal
Services" service is removed.
[No Themes!]
You cannot have the Luna (Blue/Olive/Silver) desktop themes in this version of
Windows, the only theme you can choose is "Windows Classic" which it is already
set to by default.
[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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What you can do...
You can still install and run just about all the programs and games that you
can run on a normal installation of XP. The updated DirectX DLL libraries are
already put in system32 for this purpose (d3dx9_24/25/26/27/28/29/30/31/32.dll)
You can still use a Dial-Up connection. This is the one major flaw in other
stripped out operating systems like this one, but in this edition, Dial-Up
connectivity is OK.
You also have a standalone browser so you can connect and download a web
browser of your choice like Firefox or Opera.
There is no OEMBIOS.BIN file on this ISO or in system32. If you do install
any Windows Updates, maybe at some point the updates will detect the hacked
"winlogon.exe" file that is currently being used in system32. The answer to
this is - just never install any Windows Updates! Its not like you are
"securing" your system by installing Windows Updates on this custom edition
of Windows, because pretty much all of the things that could be exploited
have been removed. If you do install Windows Updates and you end up not
being able to log in, you can find the original "winlogon.exe" file in
system32 - it is called "winlogon.exe.ORIGINAL" You will need some sort
of a live PE disc (like "miniPE") so you can get into system32 and rename
that ORIGINAL winlogon file to "winlogon.exe" and just delete the hacked
"winlogon.exe". You would also need to get hold of the file "OEMBIOS.BIN"
from a full install of Windows XP Professional Corporate (VLK) and put
that file in your system32 folder too, because the original "winlogon.exe"
checks for this file, if it is not there, Windows cannot log in. However,
there are no reports of this happening to anyone, this is just to let you
know you do still have the original "winlogon.exe" should you ever need to
restore it back because of installing some rotten Windows Update in the
future. Play it safe - just don't install Windows Updates, period.
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File Checksum (SHA-512) For:
"MicroXP_0.5b_eXPerience.exe"
To get the "SHA-512" checksum for this self extracting Uharc
file calculated, use the included program "HashCalc" and...
1 - Run HashCalc.
2 - Tick the "SHA512" tick box.
3 - Untick all other tickboxes.
4 - Click the browse "..." button (next to the white box)
5 - In the window that pops up, double click the downloaded EXE file.
6 - Click "Calculate"
7 - After about ten seconds you will see a 128 digit number.
Make sure that the number shown in
HashCalc is the same as this one:
9b2fda463503747283283557519cc616
43300ce74f34e86620c1c47670b8d884
b81fc1291716adbc8fde1acef07b7872
2b82289a2e0d26d0cfab5c5c38ba8c86
If your checksum number is not the same as above, don't use
this release, because it is not a genuine eXPerience release!
This same checksum code can be verified with the one in the
post for the release on Demonoid.com.
Remember this checksum is NOT for the ISO file that is inside
the EXE archive, it is the checksum for the EXE archive itself.