I was searching for a copy of Rhapsody DR2 (again), and forgot what the original site was. I noticed this forum had some actually intelligent posts, so...

First off, came here through The Vintage Computer Forums. A guy named per there linked me here. I took a peek around, couldn't figure out how to download builds.

A few months later, I came back looking for Neptune 5000 NOTHING, NOTHING, MOVE ALONG PLEASE.

Too bad you didn't find it!

On the other site for a betas

I found it out from someone on YouTube, "duranmedine", while browsing previews of beta Windows OSes. I was like "nice, a site dedicated to beta versions of Windows" and registered. Little did I know, Windows XP wasn't taken as a username!

btw guys, don't get me wrong, tails was checking his mail with teamviewer on and i saw it.

Why do you like sp2 more than sp3?

I don't know really, it's mainly because I wrongly assumed SP3 would replace WMP10, which was my favourite version of the media player that no-one ever uses that much. WMP11 was a disappointment. I just stuck with it because my laptop's restore CD has SP2 on it.

Well you should try xpsp3 pro performance edition, it is an xp that doesn't need a key code, activation, timebomb, or expiration, and iso is only 170mb. I love it. The only thing I noticed is it's very fast and you have to get your own backgrounds/screensavers.

Yes, that thing just includes a pirated key, so it doesn't need one entered during the install.

Do you know how it automatically bypasses activation?

Probably XP Corporate.

Ohh thanks! It has SP3 though.

Yeah, I own a corporate disk that is legally mine because it was the only disk and I have a written paper saying the disk was being transferred to me (It even had 138 more licensed uses! Now I am down to 136 more uses). It requires no activation and any programs that usually require a WGA check don't require a check.

I was wrong, it is probably Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs. It is based off XP Embedded and uses the corporate keys and has no activation or any of that other fancy stuff. It is very light (Pentium 233 with 64 Mb. Ram minimum requirements) and has no included screen savers of backgrounds in order to keep it so light.

Well the problem with that is it says professional in winver, cmd, and system, plus it's build is 2600 like it should be. It has sp3, I might upload it to the ftp if anyone wants this.

Because then it can't install without a key (only a trial key).

Yea, Windows FLP doesn't have activation or WGA because it's a volume product.

Well it's the perfect xp so far, I have 4-5 copies of it I'm using for longhorn upgrades. (which failed by the way. 3683, 3718, 5048, 5112 failed.)

I thought Longhorn builds were bootable!

Not all of them. 3683 will say something like "Insert windows professional disk in drive a"
Then they all failed for me because of the same reasons, broken .cab files or the disk partitioning page.

Try VirtualBox (or find a VM software that works for YOU).

VPC is the only one my computer supports.

Really? I'd understand if it would not support VMs at all (I remember one guy with P4).
What error it gives you, when you're trying to run VirtualBox?

The "this program did not pass windows flag testing so it may cause permanent serious and fatal errors to your hard drive and it is strongly recommended that you do not continue otherwise crash your computer" thing.

http://www.nwarwick.co.uk/Windows/UseSignedDrivers.html

Go here, and turn on "Warn".