________________________________________________________________________ eXPerience Presents... Windows XP Professional SP3 - February 2010 ________________________________________________________________________ To boot from this DVD, set your PC up so it will boot from the DVD drive in the PC's BIOS. ________________________________________________________________________ When you boot from this DVD you will see 6 options. You have a choice of 3 different Windows installations: 1. Full Windows XP (nothing is removed) 2. TinyXP (large components removed, but usable for most) 3. MicroXP (extremely small, only takes 221Mb of HDD space) All three versions are updated to February 2010. There are also three more boot options: 4. Acronis True Image EES v9.7.8353 (Backup\\Restore) 5. Hiren's BootCD v10.1 (Includes Live Windows XP) 6. SpinRite v6.1 (Hard Disk Testing and Repair) ________________________________________________________________________ Tons of drivers included! After the first reboot, on all installations, you will see a pop up "Driver Selector" window, This has a 1 minute timer. If the minute counts down, you will get important driverpacks included. This selector has a lot of drivers and you can pick and choose any combination you want, but remember that you must be sat at the PC after the first reboot. All three choices include 22 different driverpacks, all are optional, but you will always get basic drivers included even if the timer is left to count down. That is, CPU, Chipset, LAN, Mass Storage, Sound, the main nVidia and ATI graphics drivers and Wireless LAN. Even if you choose to create a smaller CD sized ISO (which you can easily do by just double clicking a batch file in the ISO folder on this DVD) those still include drivers and the driver selector, but they are on a 700Mb CD so have to have less driver packs. ________________________________________________________________________ Options 1 and 2 --------------- - NOT unattended. - You do not require any product key - Allows you to do a "Repair" installation You can install Windows the way you want, choose your own username, regional and language options etc. Option 2 -------- Option 2 is TinyXP Rev10 (February 2010). This is usable for most people, but it does not include Chinese, Japanese or Korean languages. It also has a lot of other things removed that are classed as a waste of resources, or just bulky and useless. For example the upgrade option is removed, since only a clean install is advised, also the Tour is removed, MSN Explorer and many other items, but whilst keeping all of the functionality (services) in Windows. This means you get a smaller install and it uses less RAM, but you get almost the whole of Windows and will not miss anything taken out. To see whats removed from TinyXP, see the file here: XP02\I386\SVCPACK\NLITE\Last Session.ini You should only install this Windows onto a freshly formatted partition or hard disk. Option 3 -------- Option 3 is not for the faint hearted, it is an extremely small edition of Windows with a lot of components removed. I actually use it myself though, as my main OS. It seems to do everything I need it to do. There are advantages to MicroXP: - Extremely fast installation - Fast to scan for viruses - Making a backup is fast - Defragmenting is fast Those are just some advantages - the OS is also less prone to viruses because there are so few files left to attack and it runs very fast. This boots up in probably a third of the time of normal Windows XP. This installation is unattended and set to US English, but you can change the country for your keyboard afterwards. You should only install this Windows onto a freshly formatted partition or hard disk. ________________________________________________________________________ Included driverpacks: BlueTooth (42.60 Mb) Broadband (16.20 Mb) Chipset (11.50 Mb) CPU (148.00 Kb) Graphics A (297.00 Mb) Graphics B (375.00 Mb) Graphics C (587.00 Mb) Input Devices (56.90 Mb) LAN Ethernet (50.20 Mb) Mass Storage (32.00 Mb) Miscellaneous (52.10 Mb) Modem (177.00 Mb) Monitor (95.10 Mb) Phone (15.00 Mb) Scanner (13.90 Mb) Sound A (182.00 Mb) Sound B (280.00 Mb) TV Card (75.00 Mb) USB Devices (2.69 Mb) Virtual (8.42 Mb) Webcam (221.00 Mb) Wireless LAN (158.00 Mb) Sizes above are for the uncompressed drivers on your hard disk. The drivers that get copied to your hard disk are only there during setup and will be removed again afterwards. Only the drivers that your system needs will be installed. ________________________________________________________________________ Other boot options ------------------ - Acronis Backup + Restore Allows you to backup your existing partition(s) before installing Windows, or you can quickly restore a backup made previously with Acronis. - Hirens Boot CD v10.1 This includes a bootable "Mini XP" that you can boot into in case you cannot boot into Windows anymore. From there you can access your disks again and use any of the dozens of tools included. This is a massive collection of more then 200 tools! Including Partition Tools, Disk Clone Tools, Antivirus Tools, Recovery Tools, Testing Tools, RAM (Memory) Testing Tools, Hard Disk Tools, System Information Tools, MBR (Master Boot Record) Tools, BIOS / CMOS Tools, MultiMedia Tools, Password Tools, NTFS, Ext2FS, Ext3FS (FileSystems) Tools, Dos File Managers, Dos Tools and Windows Tools. You can boot into Hiren's and have access to Norton Partition Magic, Paragon Partition Manager, EasyRecovery. - SpinRite v6.0 SpinRite attempts to recover data from damaged portions of hard disks that might not be readable via the operating system. When it encounters a sector with errors that cannot be corrected by the disk drive's error correcting code, it tries to read the sector up to 2000 times, and tries to determine the most probable value of each bit by comparing the results. The data is then saved onto a new block of the same disk. ________________________________________________________________________ APPS folder This folder contains 2 folders. One is silent installers, one is portable programs. You can run the silent installers off the DVD itself but you must copy any of the portables you want to use to your hard disk before using them. - Portables Agent Ransack v1.7.3.332 DU Meter v4.16.r3102 foobar2000 v1.0 SMplayer v0.6.8.3392 SoftMaker Office 2010 - Silent Installers allSnapv1.33.2 ChromePlus v1.3.7.0 Comodo Internet Security v3.14.129887.586 Daemon Tools Lite v4.35 Everything v1.2.1.371 Foxit PDF Reader Pro v3.0.1301 GetDiz v4.4.0.2 HashTab v3.0 IMG Burn v2.5.0.0 NET Framework v2.0 v3.0 v3.5 Notepad2 v4.0.23 Prio v1.9.9.2091 Unlocker v1.8.8 uTorrent v1.8.5.17414 Visual C++ 2005 2008 WinRAR v3.91 ________________________________________________________________________ ISO folder (CD) If you want to make a <700Mb CD of any of these Windows installations, you have 7 different options to choose from... You can make an ISO file (bootable CD image) by running one of the batch files included in the ISO folder on the DVD. You must have the DVD in your DVD drive OR the main DVD ISO file mounted in a virtual drive for this to work! The last option here gives you TinyXP and MicroXP with all the other boot options like Acronis, Hirens and SpinRite and it also includes a good selection of driver packs. See the ISO folder for more info. The 7 batch files are as follows... 01a - Full XP + 4 Driverpacks [694Mb] 01b - Full XP - No Added Drivers [672Mb] 02a - TinyXP + 16 Driverpacks [699Mb] 02b - TinyXP - No Added Drivers [346Mb] 03a - MicroXP + 20 Driverpacks [695Mb] 03b - MicroXP - No Added Drivers [109Mb] 04 - TinyXP+MicroXP+Multi-Boot+6 Driverpacks [698Mb] Running one of those files produces the following ISO file: XP01a.Full.XP.With.Drivers.iso ................................. [694Mb] XP01b.Full.XP.Without.Drivers.iso .............................. [672Mb] XP02a.TinyXP.With.Drivers.iso .................................. [699Mb] XP02b.TinyXP.Without.Drivers.iso ............................... [346Mb] XP03a.MicroXP.With.Drivers.iso ................................. [695Mb] XP03b.MicroXP.Without.Drivers.iso .............................. [109Mb] XP04.TinyXP.MicroXP.Hirens.Acronis.SpinRite.With.Drivers.iso ... [698Mb] ________________________________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------- WHAT IF YOU ONLY HAVE A CD BURNER AND NO DVD BURNER? ---------------------------------------------------- As stated above, you can just mount the main DVD ISO file in a virtual drive and then run one of the bat files to create a new ISO file. If you don't already have any software to mount this ISO file with, just open this ISO with WinRAR and drag out the "Daemon Tools" file from the "APPS\Silent" folder. Install that Daemon Tools program. Then after installing Daemon Tools, reboot. Now with Daemon Tools, mount this ISO file of the DVD. Now open the virtual drive in My Computer and open the ISO folder. Simply click any .bat file to make a .iso of the CD you want. ________________________________________________________________________ OEM folder (CD) If you want to install the drivers on this CD independently of installing Windows, this is now possible by running one file. In the OEM folder on the CD you will find a file called: DP_Install_Tool.cmd Run this DP_Install_Tool.cmd file and sit back whilst the process unpacks the drivers, then tries to find any drivers you might need installing, then installs the drivers, then removes the initial drivers that were extracted, because they are not needed afterwards. You can run this DP_Install_Tool.cmd file anytime, on any x86 Windows XP or Server 2003. Do not move the CMD file from the OEM folder. If the CMD file is not left where it is inside the OEM folder, it will not work. ________________________________________________________________________ eXPerience folder (Desktop) Most of these folders contain quick solutions to things that otherwise would be buried away in the Windows GUI or require DOS style commands. E.g. "control userpasswords2" will open the screen to change your Windows XP login password. Check WGA Status - This lets you see if Windows passes the WGA check. Desksave - Allows you to save your icon setup on the Desktop. Driver Install Tool - Info about the driver installer (OEM folder). Hibernation - Turns Hibernation on/off with one double click. Registry Backup - Easily backup your registry in one double click. Services Configuration Files - Configure Windows to use less RAM. ShrinkXP Scripts - Removal of components whilst Windows is running. System Restore - Enable (or disable) System Restore. System Volume Information - unlock (or lock) this folder. User Password - Easily change your password for Windows. ________________________________________________________________________ Removed Items: TinyXP and MicroXP both had items removed. The breakdown of items removed is far too long to list here, especially MicroXP. To see what got removed, see the "Last Session.ini" file: XP01\I386\SVCPACK\NLITE\Last Session.ini XP02\I386\SVCPACK\NLITE\Last Session.ini XP03\$OEM$\NLITE\Last Session.ini XP01 = Full XP XP02 = TinyXP XP03 = MicroXP ________________________________________________________________________ Statistics: Full XP - Hard Disk Space Used = 1.19Gb - Running Processes = 17 - RAM Usage = 81.7Mb - Services Started = 38 TinyXP Rev10 - Hard Disk Space Used = 833Mb - Running Processes = 15 - RAM Usage = 60.3Mb - Services Started = 20 MicroXP v0.84 - Hard Disk Space Used = 221Mb - Running Processes = 16 - RAM Usage = 42.4Mb - Services Started = 17 ________________________________________________________________________ Don't forget To Join The Forum @ SnipeR's Redemption Network: http://forum.retestrak.nl/index.php Enjoy this fine release from eXPerience Build Date: 17th February 2010 Release Date : Late Winter 2010 ________________________________________________________________________