patch winlogon.exe for Windows XP Starter to break unsupported message + restart ?

[MilkChan]

a few days ago @George King and I reviewed the Starter version of XP.
About unsupported status messages to turn it off.
Found in the xpsp2res.dll file.
I've been trying to fix winlogon.exe for many hours But it's not easy
and system audit
to welcome XP2ESD

I'm not good at fixing DLLs and EXEs

Symptoms remain the same

Is there anyone who is more talented than me?

String Table Form 1229

File winlogon.exe

Edited June 24, 2022 by tpao12

[MilkChan]

This is what George edited the file.

Address  Length  Original bytes Patched bytes

000000000101DF27 0x1 74 EB

00000000010200A2 0x1 74 EB

00000000010200B4 0x1 75 EB

0000000001031C9E 0x1 75 EB

0000000001031CB3 0x5 E8 59 DB FE FF 90 90 90 90 90

0000000001031CD6 0x5 E8 36 DB FE FF 90 90 90 90 90

000000000103445E 0x4 0F 84 9D 02 E9 9E 02 00

00000000010347CB 0x1 75 EB

0000000001034833 0x1 74 EB

0000000001035B3B 0x4 0F 84 18 02 E9 19 02 00

 

which does not match and unusable

0000000001031C9E 0x1 75 EB ------- 0000000001031C9E 0x1 75 FF

0000000001031C9E 0x1 74 EB

000000000102445E 0x4 0F 84 9D 02 E8 7B 02 00

Edited June 24, 2022 by tpao12

[George King]

I have tried it with winlogon.exe v5512 as I see more in IDA with this version instead of latest one.

I was thinking we can disable that Starter edition checking part.

@Dietmar Maybe you can find way how to disable Starter edition check?

[AstroSkipper]

@tpao12 AFAIK, the file winlogon.exe checks the integrity of ediskeer.dll. Using Google search engine, you can read everywhere that nobody has figured out (or published) any methods for patching ediskeer.dll on disk. Any changes in the file ediskeer.dll leads to the unsupported state error message. Generally, I wonder if there is any need of Windows XP Starter Edition in these days. The Starter Edition is just a stripped down version of Windows XP Home Edition which does not have such an integrity check. The user can transform the Starter Edition into a Home Edition by replacing some system files. That's what I know and read on Google results. Or a complete, fresh installation of the Home or Professional Edition. Anyway, that's what I would do if I were you.

Cheers, AstroSkipper 

[MilkChan]

@AstroSkipper Thank you for replying to my thread.

 

Edited June 24, 2022 by tpao12

[MilkChan]

6 hours ago, George King said:

winlogon.exe v5512

winlogon.exe v6443 Is there a difference?

[George King]

9 hours ago, tpao12 said:

winlogon.exe v6443 Is there a difference?

Yes, load 5512 and you can see more functions in human readable format instead of 6443

[MilkChan]

This post will be a thank you. @harkaz For the pdb file to the Debug DLL to solve the Starter version puzzle, all @George King checks are in progress.
I think it's also because of win32k.sys

Your pdb file will be the last option I think..

https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=358451#p358451

 

Edited June 26, 2022 by tpao12

[George King]

I tried these patches from BA and in my tests it doesn't work. Still unsupported message and after click on OK, then it directly rebooted.

[MilkChan]

The current state of the Starter version is the last way I will do it. Run the component on the normal version.

It seems to work fine.

 

 

For anyone who wants to use Starter components. on Pro and Home
1.Insert starter CD.
2.Copy startoc.in_ from CD i386 to desktop.Expend it to get startoc.inf with winrar.
3.Copy startoc.inf to %windir%\inf.
4.Run rundll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\inf\startoc.inf,Starter in cmd
5.When noticing lossing files,locate to CD:\CMPNENTS\STARTER\I386\STARTOC.CAB.
6.Reboot computer

[MilkChan]

@George King Can you read this document as it is a rare document?  Some pages seem to tell you the limitations used to check how the system works.  Firstbootcheck

I've provided along with the original symbols provided by Microsoft.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/124kJQ5c9Ddngbjf3mvlP_H6VsxVMy1TD

[George King]

@tpao12 Will see in few days

[cephead]

is there any way to just have the starter edition logo on the desktop using xp pro? but it still be windows xp pro with no limits? thanks in advance