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eXPerience Presents...
 
Windows XP 2003 eXPerience Edition (October 2011)
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This DVD includes 6 Windows installations and 2 extra boot options...
 
1) INSTALL: Windows XP Professional SP3 (October 2011)
2) INSTALL: TinyXP Rev12 (October 2011)
3) INSTALL: MicroXP v0.87 (October 2011)
 
4) INSTALL: Windows Server 2003 Enterprise SP2 (October 2011)
5) INSTALL: Tiny2003 Rev03 (October 2011)
6) INSTALL: Micro2003 v0.83 (October 2011)
 
7) BOOT: Acronis True Imagev9.7.8398 (Backup/Restore)
8) BOOT: Hiren's BootCD v10.0 (+ Live Mini XP Environment)
 
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CHOOSING DRIVERPACKS...
 
On all installations of Windows - when the PC reboots for the first
time during installation (just after Windows files have copied) then
you will see a driver selector pop up. You have one minute to choose
which drivers you want to include, if you let the timer count down,
then the default drivers will be included which are: Chipset, CPU,
Lan Ethernet, Sound and Wireless LAN. If you want to include the
graphics drivers then you will need to be there to tick the three
boxes on the driver selector.
 
 
UNATTENDED INSTALLATIONS...
 
All six Windows installations are fully unattended. After installation,
you should open the eXPerience desktop folder and thenopen the "Keyboard
Settings" folder. With these unattended installations, all keyboards are
set to "US English".
 
 
WINDOWS UPDATES...
 
All of these installations include all of the required "security only"
hotfixes, updating the OS to October 2011. Later versions of Internet
Explorer and Windows Media Player are not added. This includes the
original IE6 and original WMP9/10 but they are also securely patched
with their respective updates, to October 2011.
 
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- Windows XP Professional SP3
 
This is the complete Windows XP Professional SP3 x86 updated to October
2011 with security hotfixes. This edition has the original IE6 and WMP9.
Everything is updated. Nothing at all is removed.
 
 
- TinyXP Rev12
 
This is a cut down version of Windows XP Professional SP3 x86 updated
to October 2011 with security hotfixes. This edition has the original
IE6 and WMP9. Everything is updated. Many items are removed in this
version, which is approximately half the size of full Windows XP.
This version removes Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages, Movie
Maker, Internet Information Services (IIS) and various other items.
To check exactly what is removed, open the "Last Session.ini" file
here on the DVD: "XP02\$OEM$\Last Session.ini" and look under the
section "[Components]" to see what is removed.
 
 
- MicroXP v0.87
 
This is a very small version of Windows XP Professional SP3 x86
updated to October 2011 with security hotfixes. This edition does
not include Internet Explorer or Windows Media Player at all.
Everything is updated. This edition is about as cut down as it can
be and is only intended for gaming and squeezing life out of the oldest
computers, however, many people use this version full time and use all
the same programs and play all the same games as on full XP. Programs
most likely not to work with this edition are gigantic Microsoft apps
like Microsoft Office. Other software that relies on MDAC or the Jet
Database will not work, because  those items are removed. This version
of Windows is less than a quarter of the size of full Windows. An extreme
amount of components are removed, to check exactly what is removed, open
the "Last Session.ini" file here on the DVD: "XP03\$OEM$\Last Session.ini"
and look under the section "[Components]" to see what is removed. Then
also look under the section "[RemoveFiles]" to see individual files also
removed.
 
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- Windows Server 2003 SP2
 
The three versions of Windows Server 2003 are roughly the same as the
above XP versions in terms of what is removed. So the full Server 2003
has nothing at all removed, Tiny2003 has the same items taken out as
TinyXP has (but UDDI and Windows Media Services are removed in 2003)
and the same goes for Micro2003, it has pretty much the same files
removed as MicroXP does.
 
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WHY IS SERVER 2003 INCLUDED ANYWAY?
 
I found all the way back in 2003 when Windows Server 2003 was released
that it runs faster and better than XP. This is something home users
simply do not know anything about, but once you try Server 2003 you
will realize Explorer is faster, copying files is faster, loading and
using programs and games is faster... but the catch is a few programs
will not install on a Server (or as they sometimes call it a ".NET
Server" operating system). Luckily these are mostly blocks on .MSI
files and there are included fixes in the desktop eXPerience folder
to get around this blocking of installation. Once installed, the apps
work just as they do on XP and it is often the case that the only
reason you couldn't use the program on Server 2003 was the MSI file
that installs the program was coded to deliberately refuse to install
on a Server operating system. For EXE files there is also a fix,
using "Application Verifier" to fool whatever you're installing
into thinking the OS is XP SP3.
 
Server 2003 on this DVD is intended to be used as a workstation OS
and all three installations of Server 2003 are tweaked that way.
 
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To install Windows from this DVD, set your PC up so it will boot from
the CD/DVD-ROM in the PC's BIOS.
 
You do not need any product key for any of the installations.
 
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DRIVERS
 
You have the following drivers included:
 
- Chipset --------> (included by default)
- CPU ------------> (included by default)
- Graphics -------> (NOT included by default!)
- LAN Ethernet ---> (included by default)
- SATA -----------> (included by default)
- Sound ----------> (included by default)
- Wireless LAN ---> (included by default)
 
When the PC reboots for the first time during installation (just after
Windows files have copied) then you will see a driver selector pop up.
 
If you do not catch this in time, or are not sat at the PC when this
driver selector has timed out (after one minute) then all the drivers
will extract - bear in mind, this will take a few gigabytes of disk
space. If you do not want to extract the driverpacks, make sure you
are sat at the PC after the files have copied and it reboots.
 
The alternative to that is to make your own standalone ISO from the
ISO folder on the DVD. This way there is no timer, or driverpacks.
 
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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.
 
The folder differs from XP to Server 2003.
 
INCLUDED WITH XP ONLY:
 
Check WGA Status - (see if Windows is still "genuine")
System Restore - (turn on or off)
 
 
INCLUDED WITH SERVER 2003 ONLY:
 
Data Execution Prevention - (turn on or off here)
Hard Drive Not Showing - (link to Disk Management)
Program Compatibility Fixer - (force certain programs to install)
 
 
INCLUDED WITH BOTH XP AND SERVER 2003:
 
DeskSave - (save desktop icon layout, in case icons are rearranged)
Hibernation - (turn on or off)
Keyboard Settings - (quick access to Regional and Language options)
Registry Backup - (backup the entire registry in one click)
Services Configuration Files - (save RAM by disabling useless services)
ShrinkXP Scripts - (safely remove files from the installation)
System Volume Information - (lock/unlock)
User Password - (quick access to "Userpasswords2" command)
 
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Included programs...
 
APPS Folder (on DVD)
 
APPS\PORTABLE contains many portable programs. To use these programs,
you need to extract the included archive to your hard disk drive.
Open the archive with WinRAR or 7-Zip. Some of these programs might
not be the latest version...
 
Agent Ransack v1.7.3.332
Boilsoft Video Joiner v5.32
Boilsoft Video Splitter v5.16
CCleaner v3.12.1572
Comodo System Cleaner v2.1.114194.1
CueClub
Dead Pixel Buddy
DeVeDe v3.12.2
Dir2Txt
Duplicate File Finder v3.5
ExamDiff Pro v3.1.4.8
Firefox v7.0.1
Foobar2000 v1.0
FRD v 0.85 u1 b566
GIF Movie Gear v4.2
Google Earth v6.0.2.2074
HandBrake v0.9.4
Hex Workshop v6.0.1.4603
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