Done

BTW people who are waiting, i'm very sorry. I would like to give a beta out much earlier, but that was in my holiday. Now, the virtual pc file was 2x full of problems (won't start etc.). I'm bussy with making a new one, but it is quite a lot of work. I have also now homework (i'm at school...) so a very little time to work on the project. But I will keep making it!

Any word on releasing a beta yet?

Sorry, not yet. I'm trying to recover everything I had. I will try to make in the chirstmas holiday. I don't have anytime this week and next week, because I've got test period at school.

I'm really working on it, but I have to take the time and do everything apart, make many back-ups etc. because it will otherways go once again wrong.

Yesterday, I was trying to make to project again, because I have holiday now. It crashed again.... I think I really do something wrong, but I don't see any point and time to try it again.

So could please someone lock this topic? Maybe I will create tutorials of what was good, but I don't think this project will be anything anymore.

Sorry...

Sorry for asking, but what's the point of doing this? There is VIsta, it's nice OS after one SP (another one is coming) and lots of stability and performance updates. I understand that some people can not like it, though, but since Windows 7 RTM will have been released in a few moths, and XP will lose its mainstream support, people will buy Windows 7. Windows XP is almost dead. That OS is already 7 yeard old.

Windows 7 will take a little longer than a few months to RTM...
I agree that, XP is dead, But I would rather have swarms of people using XP, than swarms of people trying to run Vista on their P4's with pathetic amounts of RAM and Graphics memory.
I like Vista, and I'll like 7 too, but for some people (like myself ATM) , running XP is the responsible thing to do.

and about the bootscreen this is cool from windows 7


and btw is the beta is finish ?

Once again, anything you get from Deviantart, you need to get permission to use.

yes you will need permission you could pm him on deviantart or i will pm him if you want to pack it on your fsp pack

It was just a 'project' of me. Nothing serious, just for fun. It looked me fun to make something like this, not to improve XP completeley.


I don't have a beta, when I almost had it, my computer crashed.

But as I said, I stop working on it. If someone other want to go further, please PM me.

so this is cancelled for good?

Maybe someday, i will try it again. But yes, for now it is cancelled.

PS: Do you need new betstesters? I want to test.

I got Windows XP Professional SP3

It has been said 3 times that this project has been cancelled.
I suggest to lock this topic until zeehonden_3 desides to pick it up again.

Why does good projects with people that have good idea's ending in a piece of *beeeeeep*?!?!

There are 89,809 people working for Microsoft. Starting a project like this is essentially saying "I can do better than the combined effort of 89,809 people, all of whom have various degrees in IT"
That, and without the source code, nobody can really make a big difference to the OS.

How the [noise]BEEEEEP[/noise] you know, that there are exactly 89,809 people working at Microsoft?

Wikipedia knows all.

I don't mean that, i'm do it just for fun. I'm sure Microsoft can do everything better than me. But they do it for work, i just for fun.

Good point, I think that even with the Betas, OSes and Abandonware collecting is even for fun.

I've extracted icons from every build of windows 7 up to 7100 if you want I can rar up and send you everything I've extracted that way you have a lot of icons to use.

OOPs, someone really should lock this topic if the project is dead....

These all look very cool. The only hits I got when I looked up DX10 for XP was some questions asking to port and some virus-riddled rip offs. This seems like it could be something big... I have a PC dedicated to projects like this (where a reformat and reinstall is done after botched procedures) and I'd be happy to try this out.