ibay770

If you're like me and use winxshell, if you don't need uwp and word, you can delete dwminit.dll, dwm.exe, explorer.exe and sihost.exe just make a text file and call it dwm.exe instead. Enjoy your fast windows.

https://legacyupdate.net/

This was a program back in the vista days that let you search the net with commands from the start menu/run box and command line, as well as showing results in the start menu, which Microsoft finally did in win11, but we all know how bloated it is. Curious if it's possible to get it working in Open Shell instead. Installer is enclosed. Thanks in advance More info here: https://www.instantfundas.com/2009/12/start-makes-windows-vista7-start-menu.html https://archive.org/download/start-0.8.1-setup/Start___0.8.1_Setup.msi

Curious how you got so low.

Do they charge for that version? Good to note! Another idea is to install whatever you want in a winpe and just boot that. Here is a guide for audio but the principles are the same. https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/64929-windows-pe-as-audio-os/

Personally I use this: https://github.com/ionuttbara/windows-defender-remover This is just a start, at least for me. I delete autochk, werfault (to disable error reporting) and wrpinit (to get rid of windows resource protection)

Who says it's not practical? I have systems running win8 and they work great as a print/file server. You can make your changes and use a deep freeze software and you should be good to go.

Any updated links? Pity all the good software gets lost.

Curious if you have the link to the PE and ShellPE.

http://web.archive.org/web/20081014171009/http://students.kennesaw.edu/~rzillige/shell/shell_ext_files/ShExtBinaries_3.0.7z ShExtBinaries_3.0.7z

Hey everyone, made a spreadsheet with stuff that works on later systems. Feel free to add to it. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AgwYcNKb4qjuEFTIAIWIwBOsneT-ILJXlusfzCJf-wk/htmlview# Look at the bottom of the speadsheet, there are a few with different programs. More tools that work with winxp. https://www.notion.so/1447050df0ad80d0ac4df39879ac74ac Also, in general, for dead links, try looking in the wayback machine. https://web.archive.org/

Updated link to this and other tools. https://github.com/ibay770/explorertools/releases/download/test/Great.Tools.for.Windows.Explorer.zip Thumbnail Handler for Text Files on Explorer.zip Not working yet on win11, feel free to hack away till it does. MysticThumbs has a 2 week trial though. https://mysticcoder.net/MysticThumbs

Is there a way to disable/remove Metro?

Curious how Server 2012 differs, is that better?

"Also, three fonts can be found at Validation OS: System, Terminal and Lucida Console. Adding just the Marlett font into the VOS Image will make the OS display more badly as most areas will be shown in the Marlett font." I added all the windows fonts to the WIM, how to do I make it use them?