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Has anyone used tinxp rev06 as a everyday os for surfing the web ,playing games , etc and had problems ? Because im thinking about putting on my laptop which has a genuine copy of windows xp to make things faster and to use in the cab im building for mame and normal computer stuff .

OK, my turn to chime in, and only because I tried out MicroXP for the first time this weekend.

I have revived my mame aspirations, so am going through the process of setting up my mobo etc.

I 'setup' microXP, and I have a few observations:

1 - The setup is indeed tiny. As in an 88mb .iso (My collection of drivers for the mobo, wireless and vid were 144mb :))

2 - The setup was fast

3 - the boot time is impressive

I am not too keen on the 'branding' with 'MicroXP' popping up while it boots etc, but meh that's no problem

Now my problems I had...

Note: I have a DFI Lanparty 875pro motherboard. From all observations it is pretty pimp (for its time), has all sorts of stuff on it (4 IDE, 2 Sata, Raid blah blah). Not my first choice, but a hand me down from my gaming bro, so came at the right price.

My problems could be this mobo, or this user (lots and lots of pro experience with XP, none at all with MicroXP)

1 - The 'standard' driver package from Micro made the machine sucky.

2 - The WiFi adapter drivers once installed, appeared to do bugger all - no networks found - I can find 4 other than my own with my laptop right next to it

3 - Cannot install the mobo .inf files - they reckon my mobo is not the 'pro875' which it most certainly is - so something is broken there... same with the intel app accelerator (fancy name for chipset drivers)

4 - The video drivers installed OK, but were not exactly speedy due to '3' above

5 - The onboard audio drivers said 'get bent' as they also believe the mobo does'nt have the right chipset

6 - same for onboard LAN

7 - I didn't even think about bothering with the raid crap

So, it does not look like it is right for me... Which is OK, the install time was pretty quick, so I burned about an hour or two checking it out.

Unless someone here knows (and let's me know) that I'm doing something very wrong, I'll just go to XP.

Is there really a huge difference between Micro or Tiny XP? I'd imagine a similar set of problems...

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Do I think you should put it on a laptop? Hmm no. With all the weird hardware and necessary drivers, I think you'll be in a lot of strife getting it to work.

If you are willing to get it to work, then I guess it would be 'worth it'. I honestly don't see any way for massive speed improvements from Tiny/Micro, just faster boot times. A lot of the 'stuff' ripped out is what makes XP (fat) easier to use as a day to day machine.... Which is OK for mame etc, but would be annoying as hell on a daily use PC.

If you want to try it, by all means. Just make sure you image your current machine, so if you hate it you can go back pretty quick...

 

 

2 - The WiFi adapter drivers once installed, appeared to do bugger all - no networks found - I can find 4 other than my own with my laptop right next to it

 

 

I tried getting a network going in MicroXP just now, and I could not do it. Then I read in the release notes - No Network support! It can browse the web though and maybe FTP though that. My guess is that TinyXP would have network support reading this.

eXPerience Presents...

Windows TinyXP Platinum Edition 2

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Main features at a glance:

- Windows XP Service Pack 2 integrated

- All 133 Windows Updates (Windows is up to date to 12th June 2007)

- All installs pass the "Windows Genuine Advantage" checks

- Choose from four different installs of Windows XP

- Includes 5th boot option: Acronis backup + restore environment

- Added drivers to support CPU, Chipset, LAN, SATA and Wireless LAN

- Windows Post Install menu with most commonly requested programs

- Option to create your own bare ISO from any of the four installs

- Windows Vista Aero Glass theme set by default on all installs

- Windows Vista drive indicator (shows a bar under your drive icon)

- VMware Tools automatically installed if you install in VMware

- All software included is the latest edition as of June 12th 2007

- More than 100 registry tweaks to make using Windows easier

- All installs set monitor resolution to 1024 x 768 x 32 @85Hz

- Services configuration files included to reduce memory use

- eXPerience's ShrinkXP batch files to strip Windows "on the fly"

- This release is kept to a CD sized ISO so anyone can use it

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To install TinyXP from this CD, set your PC

in the BIOS to boot from your CD-ROM drive.

Only install this operating system onto a freshly formatted partition or hard disk.

There is no upgrade option available, because the option is removed. You do not

need any product key in this release, the installation of TinyXP is unattended, apart

from in the very beginning where you choose which drive or partition to install to.

All installations are set to US English. This can be changed after installation.

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When you boot from this

CD you have five options:

1 - TinyXP With IE/OE/WMP (With Drivers)

2 - TinyXP With IE/OE/WMP (Without Drivers)

3 - TinyXP Without IE/OE/WMP (With Drivers)

4 - TinyXP Without IE/OE/WMP (Without Drivers)

5 - Boot Into Acronis Backup + Restore

Abbreviations from above:

IE = Internet Explorer 7 Web Browser

OE = Outlook Express Email Client

WMP = Windows Media Player 11

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All four installations of TinyXP include the following items,

these are all automatically installed along with Windows:

Service Pack 2 For Windows XP

133 Hotfixes Up To 12th June 2007

Flash Player v9.0.28.0

Opera v9.21 (only installed on options without Internet Explorer 7)

Prio (Task Manager Priority Saver) v1.9.6

Royale Noir and Royale Blue Themes

Thunderbird v2.0.0.0 (only installed on options without Outlook Express)

Vista Aero Glass Theme v4

Vista Drive Indicator v3.1.1.0

VMware 5 Tools v5.5.4 Build 44386 (only installed if you install Windows in VMware 5)

Other added items in system32:

cdimage.exe (Lets you make ISO's on the command line)

CDR.exe (This is whats used on the right click of optical drives to close the CD tray)

lame_enc.dll (Many encoding programs require this for MP3 encoding)

layout.dll (This gives you the "Save desktop icon layout" option on right click of Recycle Bin)

makecab.exe (More up to date version that actually works)

On-Screen Keyboard (osk.exe) (nLite removes this as part of a bigger component)

pskill.exe (Kill processes on the command line, without needing switches)

sleep.exe (Make a batch command file pause for a given period of time)

Video res changer to force 1024 x 768 on install (XP normally installs @ 640x480)

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Here is a breakdown of the five boot options:

For Microsoft fans...

The first two options include Internet Explorer 7 Web Browser, Outlook Express Email Client and

Windows Media Player 11 so Windows XP is completely up to date and as Bill Gates intended.

For people who don't like Microsoft programs...

The second two options do not include Internet Explorer 7, Outlook Express, or Windows Media

Player 11. In the second two options where IE/OE/WMP are removed, Opera v9.21 is installed to

replace Internet Explorer and Mozilla Thunderbird v2.0.0.0 is installed to replace Outlook Express.

Automatic Driver Installation...

Options one and three both include drivers to cover the following: Chipset,

CPU, Ethernet LAN Cards, SATA (Mass Storage) and Wireless Ethernet.

No Drivers Included...

Options two and four do not contain those drivers - this is in case you have SATA

problems with the first or third options, or if you just want to install your own drivers.

Acronis Backup + Restore...

Option five allows you to backup your existing partition(s) before installing Windows, or you can

quickly restore a backup made previously with Acronis. This version of Acronis True Image Home

is safe to use if you want to back up Windows Vista.

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Windows Post Install Menu

These programs are installable from the "Install Programs"

icon on your Desktop. You need to have the TinyXP CD

in your CD drive for these items to install:

DirectX DLL Libraries #24 to #33

FoxIt PDF Reader Pro v2.0 Build 1312

Java SE Runtime Environment 6 Update 1 v1.6.0_01

K-Lite Mega Codec Pack v2.10

NOD32 Antivirus v2.70.39

Nero Micro (Express and Burning ROM) v7.9.6.0

.NET Framework 2.0 v2.0.50727.42

Office 2003 SP2 Lite v11.6568.6568

Opera Browser v9.21 (Only included on the 2 installs that do not already install this)

PeerGuardian v2.0 Beta 6b

Perfectdisk Defrag Server Edition v8.0 Build 64

Photoshop CS2 v9.0.2

Sygate Personal Firewall Pro v5.6 Build 3408

Sound Forge v9.0a Build 297

Thunderbird v2.0.0.0 (Only included on the 2 installs that do not already install this)

uTorrent v1.6.1 Build 490

VMware Workstation v5.5.4 Build 44386

Windows Live Messenger v8.1.0178.0

WinRAR v3.70

On the Windows Post Install wizard menu, you can

hover your mouse pointer over any of the programs

for a detailed description of that program.

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Drivers:

Bashrat The Sneaky Driverpacks

(Options 1 and 3 only)

CPU (v7.04.1)

Chipset (v7.06)

LAN (Ethernet) (v7.06.1)

SATA (Mass Storage) (v7.06.1)

Wireless LAN (v7.04)

These drivers will only install if you have the device plugged in

and switched on so it is detected. Only the drivers that match

your devices will install.

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ISO folder (On Root Of CD)

If you want to make standalone ISO's of any of the four Windows

XP installations, you can do this by running one of the four batch

files included in the ISO folder on the CD.

None of these installations include any of the installable programs,

but they do include the Vista Aero Glass Theme, Vista Drive Indicator,

Flash Player and Prio. See the "ISO" folder on the CD for more info.

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eXPerience Folder (On Desktop) Sub-Folders:

Desktop Icon Layout (Adds or removes the two options to save/restore your desktop icon layout)

Keyboard Settings (Quick access to Regional and Language options where you can change your keyboard layout)

Registry Backup (Quickly make a complete backup of your entire registry)

Services Configuration Files (4 different service configurations, with varying levels of functionality, with "default" file too)

ShrinkXP Scripts (Allows you to quickly strip out items you do not want in XP "on the fly", or restore them again)

Vista Aero Glass Theme (This is just a text file with info about Windowblinds and the installed Vista Aero Glass theme)

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Removed Items

The following items have been removed from options one and two...

[APPLICATIONS]

Games

Internet Games

Pinball

[DRIVERS]

Display Adapters

Modems

Printers

[LANGUAGES]

Arabic (Algeria), Arabic (Bahrain), Arabic (Egypt), Arabic (Iraq), Arabic (Jordan),

Arabic (Kuwait), Arabic (Lebanon), Arabic (Libya), Arabic (Morocco), Arabic (Oman),

Arabic (Qatar), Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Arabic (Syria), Arabic (Tunisia), Arabic (U.A.E.),

Arabic (Yemen), Divehi (Maldives), Syriac (Syria), Urdu, Armenian, Estonian, Latvian,

Lithuanian, Azeri (Cyrillic), Belarusian, FYRO Macedonian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz (Kyrgyzstan),

Mongolian (Mongolia), Tatar, Ukrainian, Uzbek (Cyrillic), Georgian, Greek, Hebrew,

Bengali (India), Gujarati (India), Hindi, Kannada (India), Konkani, Malayalam (India),

Marathi, Punjabi (India), Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu (India), Japanese, Korean, Chinese

(PRC), Chinese (Singapore), Farsi, Thai, Chinese (Hong Kong S.A.R.), Chinese

(Macau S.A.R.), Chinese (Taiwan), Azeri (Latin), Turkish, Uzbek (Latin), Vietnamese.

[MULTIMEDIA]

Images and Backgrounds

Music Samples

[NETWORK]

MSN Explorer

Windows Messenger

[OPERATING SYSTEM OPTIONS]

Help and Support

Manual Install and Upgrade

NET Framework

Out of Box Experience (OOBE)

Search Assistant

Security Center

Tour

[sERVICES]

Beep Driver

Error Reporting

Indexing Service

Messenger

System Restore Service

[DIRECTORIES]

DOCS

SUPPORT (setupmgr.exe for creating WINNT.SIF is kept)

VALUEADD

For the options with Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and Windows

Media Player (Options one and two) the WINDOWS folder takes up

about 680Mb of hard disk space.

For the options without Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and Windows

Media Player (Options three and four) the WINDOWS folder takes up about

525Mb of hard disk space.

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Credits:

None of the people below either support or endorse

this release. Credit is given because credit is due:

Nuhi (Dino Nuhagic) - nLite - http://www.nliteos.com/

Bashrat The Sneaky - Driverpacks - http://driverpacks.net/

Ironjer - "Aero Glass The Remix IV WBA" Theme -

Kelsenellenelvian - Vista Drive Indicator -

Kelsenellenelvian - VMware 5 Tools Addon - http://www.wincert.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=428

Boooggy - Windows Media Player 11 Addon - http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=90635

Crews (fixes, patches, keygens, cracks):

SSG - FoxIt PDF Reader Pro (Patch)

NSANE - NOD32 Antivirus (Fix)

EMBRACE - Nero Burning ROM (Keygen)

ZWT - Perfectdisk Server Edition (Cracked on install)

MG-TEAM - WinRAR (Patch)

Lz0 - Sony Sound Forge (Cracked on install)

ZWT - VMware 5 (Keygen)

"Sound Forge" and "VMware Workstation" reduced in size by eXPerience.

All silent installers created by eXPerience.

Note: No cracks, fixes, keygens or patches are distributed with this release, except the NSANE fix,

which is installed with NOD32. The above fixes, patches, cracks and keygens are only the methods

used - all installations either have the serial in a registry file, or they include pre-cracked files. There

are other installs in this edition of TinyXP, for example: Photoshop CS2 reduced installation, Office

2003 reduced installation, Internet Explorer 7 Addon, where the authors seem to have not put a name

to their work, sorry that credit is not given if you made these items! I think the Office 2003 is Chinese

in origin (even though it installs in English).

Special thanks go out to everyone from SnipeR's

Redemption Network for suggestions and help!

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Don't forget To Join The Forum @ SnipeR's Redemption Network...

http://www.retestrak.nl/Board/

(Remember to read the rules before making any posts)

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Enjoy this fine release from eXPerience

Release Date : 17th June 2007

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BURN THIS AS SLOW AS POSSIBLE AS THERE ARE MANY FILES FOR JUST ONE 700MB CD AND IT WILL NOT COPY ALL THE FILES CORRECTLY.IF YOU DO NOT YOU WILL PROBABLY JUST WASTE A CD!

PLEASE CARE AND SHARE!!!

SEED AFTER YOU ARE DONE DOWNLOADING!

i found it. this is really barbones windows but this is extremely fast. have your drivers ready.

 

XSOS v2.02 (52888 KB)

http://rapidshare.com/files/15194180/XSOS_v2.02.rar

 

readme.txt

XSOS v2.02 

Installtime is 5min + 1 extra boot
Installsize = 133mb

[iNFO]

You are/will be logged in as:
UserName ="Administrator"
Password ="Administrator"

NVIDIA SATA Raid drivers is now fully working, no need for floppy and hitting F6  :)) .
DirectX 9.0c is included as well!!

At the end of install you will be given choices of apps and utils to install with an WPI interface. (due to crappy gfx drivers it will not be in the best res.)

ALL HOTFIXES UP TO 2006-07-15 HAS BEEN MERGED INTO SOURCE PREINSTALL!

The "front" and Explorer of the OS has been modded to an somewhat more pleasant look, I hope you like it...loootsa work there. ;)

The switch for Online/Offline mode has been extended to 4 different modes:  (memusage)

1.
OnlineWork - Network access + workgroup/domain joining possible    (25MB)

2.
Online     - Network access                                        (23MB)

3.
Offline    - Offline                                               (21MB)   (Default) 
                  
4.
BenchMode  - Offline + only the very essential services running    (19.5MB) (will reboot, be patient!!)


!!!SWITCHES LOCATED AT "Start MenuProgramsAccessoriesSystem Tools!!!
!!!Benchmode is still in experimental stage, can be VERY long boottime!!!
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[[[ XSOS v2.0 ]]]


[DRIVERS]

NVIDIA SATA RAID    (NF3, NF4)      confirmed
ULI SATA RAID       (m5228, m5281)
SiL SATA RAID       (Si3112r)


[APPS&UTILS]
 
Evil Player v1.12       added
Kkrieger                added  ;)


[FUNCTIONALITY]

Network/Domain Joining              confirmed
DirectX 9.0c                        confirmed
Boinc                               confirmed
Gaim v1.5                           confirmed


[bugs&Fixes]


AMD Dual-Core fix       fixed  

monitor, "not found"    fixed

Daemon Tools            fixed (ignore errors)

ATI Tool                fixed

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[[[ XSOS v2.01 ]]]


[bugs&Fixes]


halacpi.dll, Error 14   fixed (for sure I hope)

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[[[ XSOS v2.02 ]]]


[bugs&Fixes]

Minor fixes and some tweaks for better performance

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[ATTENTION!]

---WHEN YOU INSTALL DRIVERS MAKE SURE TO WAIT FOR ALL THE SEPARATE DRIVER MODULES TO BE INSTALLED BEFORE YOU REBOOT, THIS IS [NOT!] DONE AUTOMATICALLY!!---

You need to be patient when plugging in those drivers, after you started a driver install you must make sure that all the driver components has been installed before reboot (can be multiple popups) ..this does only require for a click on the "automatic install" button...multiple times if you are installing Audio for example. This is a result of the Shell Hardware Detection beeing deactivated...will save resources but requires patience. Decision was made to do this considering that drivers wont be installed everyday...but you surely would like to have the extra resources gained at hand everyday...right?


[issues]

ADD/REMOVE Program will have issues if not all systemdrivers are properly plugged in, make sure you install all your drivers before messing about with it.

[Greets]

Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated!

A side note:
Please try to be realistic when it comes to what to expect of functionality, this is meant for hardcore gaming or benching primarily...not as an 24/7 OS that can install and run all those gadgets you might think of.

/Team

 

http://rapidshare.com/files/15194180/XSOS_v2.02.rar

try this one

I'll give it a go, although it look slike it may be even more minimal than Micro was...

At least it is a reasonable sized download... TinyXP is around 700mb - and a torrent at that. No chance of grabbing a torrent at work (will get a big smack if I try that!)

I just tried MicroXP with a network connection tonight for the first time. I had the computer running, plugged in the Network Cable but it still had the Network the Red Crossmark on it in the task bar. I rebooted the computer and the Network is connected now but I cannot see the network. I might need to load Client for Microsoft networks? I'm not sure will try it out tomorrow.

 

Have you had any luck with your connection?

 

Ryan

I've had no trouble getting it on the network, and can browse the web, etc. Trouble is there is "ipconfig" under command prompt. I can also ping it from another XP machine on the network but I can't connect to it via Map Network Drive or similar. It always asks for credentials and rejects no matter what is entered. I tried setting up a user on both machines with the same logon credentials - no joy.

Has anyone managed to map a network drive to or browse shares on a TinyXP PC?

Cheers

LT.

i thought they removed the Windows File Sharing parts of the os. Hence it wont work.

FTP will work :)

Can i use tinyxp on computers that are running os's like windows 98 and 2000 ?

And if i dont like it after using the os for awhile is their a way to change it back to your normal os ?

make you own custom built xp discs then if all else fails

http://www.nliteos.com/

tiny xp, 4 or 5 versions on the one disc

http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1447749/16329375/

tiny xp, 4 or 5 versions on the one disc

 

http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1447749/16329375/

Thanks. Will give them a look.

Windows TinyXP Rev08

Released: 25th April 2008

http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4155785/Windows_TinyXP_Rev08_-_Windows_XP_Professional_Corp_SP3

Awesome, looks good

Never tried any of these cut downs, so ill give this rev8 a go and see if it speeds my dog of a mame machine up.