I “believe” that this was the archive that I performed the installation with, even though I download this file a long time ago, and I can’t seem to fully remember. If this is it, then in my case, even though a CD key is provided in the DL, the installation program never prompted me for one. Regardless, special thanks to RustyEdsel for archiving this disc which can be found here:
On the whole, the process is very straightforward to anyone who has installed XP. It does take a little bit of time. However, the installation is very simple and uneventful. I installed Legacy Update afterwards and installed the much-needed updates that XP needs like SP2 and SP3, and various other security updates. Legacy Update can be found here:
One thing I did to my installation, but I’m not going to show in this video, is how to activate WinXP using the “Windows XP telephone activation” “patch”. This download can be found on Archive.org and is very dead-simple to use anyway.
One of thing. On my PC, if there isn’t no delay, whenever the WinXP desktop loads, there is a lot of sound suttering. I added a password to invoke the login screen, which buys time for the other Windows services to load and do there thing so that when you do login using your very simple password, which is proably “password”, the system sound will play without stuttering.
Also, there is a delayed time, roughly 1 minute 30 seconds, from BIOS to WinXP Desktop where even after the desktop loads, you can’t launch any applications. There is a delayed response until after that time passes and everything loads without issue. I “think” that this issue is caused by Microsoft Security Essentials. However, given that this is XP, I would rather keep the Security Essentials around and put up with the 1 minute 30 second delay than do without. The thing is that with modern ISP’s, the router provides very good firewall security to home networks. As such, even an OS like XP will generally be protected and no weird and unusual crap will happen. However, I would still not do casual web-browsing with this OS anyway. That should be a given. But one would be srupised to learn that people will to personal stuff on such outdated systems. That is not the fault of the system, but the user doing mission critical stuff on an old system. Also, if you put an XP system directly on the internet while bypassing the router, then WinXP will proably be comprismed by Russian hackers within seconds of it going online.
Also, in order to change the VBox bios screen using a 256 color, 640 by 480 BMP file downloaded and edited in GIMP and resaved in MS Paint, I executed the following commands from the Command Prompt:
For VBox, I changed the BIOS logo for the Dell and Gateway systems. If you want to change the VBox logo for your particular VM, and can execute the following command lines at the Windows Command Prompt:
cd %programfiles%OracleVirtualBox
VBoxManage modifyvm “Windows NT 4.0 Workstation” –bioslogoimagepath “F:VirtualBox VMsWindows NT 4.0 Workstationibmbios_256c.bmp” (or Dell and Gateway equavlent)
VBoxManage modifyvm “Blah Blah Blash” –bioslogodisplaytime 11000
Songs Used:
Busy House Generated
Mubert Song
SOUNDDRAW.IO Generated
Corporate Pop Song
Take Me Down To The
Fashion Show By NoMBe
(Modified)
Software Used:
Recorded With OBS Studio
Composed In Kdenlive
Hardware Used:
PC equipped with a
AMD Ryzen 5 5500 CPU
6 Cores Running At 4.2GHz
AMD Radeon RX570 GPU
Windows 11
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