Used nLite for _so many_ XP and 2000 installations back in the day when I did freelance computer repair work. Saves so much time! Had no idea about the unofficial SP4 though, that's awesome. Thanks for the info!
Yeah, I actually found it most useful for the whole F6 disk driver floppy thing. Way back when I got a batch of new servers at work that needed Server 2003, but didn't come with built-in floppy drives, and USB floppy drive support in Windows setup was spotty. Injected the RAID drivers into the install and off I went.
ha ha ... I guess Clint's followers we are kind of shy @Jacob McCloskey... There goes the 5th like .. Or maybe we're around... Ross's Game Dungeon today :-o I was personally watching Diepiify trying not to get crush by building pieces .. >> ua-cam.com/video/GVL8Nd0YvR8/v-deo.html .. yeah fan made game.. :-) ...
The thing is that the tech/nerd community.. we have so much great people and material here ... sometimes it's difficult to keep up..... look... this woman has a piece of the Saturn V LVDC computer.. first chips made as we know them today.. in a 12-layer circuit board .. Surface Mount (SMD) !! .. 3-layer ceramic chips in the late 60's !! ... then someone from NASA (I think) donate to her... a damaged one... so... yeah.. she make a series disassembling those chips under a microscope.. >> ua-cam.com/video/w8QdF4J9mTI/v-deo.html
@@thegoodguy44 Then it got shitty again with Vista(unless you knew all tricks), then 7 came it got decent again, then came the horror that was 8, then 8.1 which was fixable, and for me Windows 10 was my ultimate last straw fight with MS. AMD has really stepped up their Linux support, and I finally moved all my computers to Manjaro Linux with Budgie DE earlier this year, and have not looked back(unless you count my retro P4 98se/XP build), and if someone I know like my elder aunt is not comfortable with Manjaro, and/or a non gamer with only basic needs, then I set them up with Neverware Cloud Ready OS(Chromium OS).
xp doesnt have native support for SATA.. it is technical. legacy mode with sata HDD work fine but native.. it will refuse to boot into xp unless u install sata driver.. for the new generation of today.. they are clueless. we middle age user knows well . why xp is better for fixing HDD or flash drives.. SD card. all ya know how to do is turn on and not a pc tech. people today are so ignorant and ignorant of pc trouble shooting. very important. think independent. im not a mac user btw.
@@samanthatang9759 you could always slipstream the SATA driver in your XP installation media. That way it can be hassle free every time you install xp. You can try universal SATA driver from fernando's website.
Colin, are you familiar with Windows POSReady 2009? Its a version of Windows XP that ran on ATMs that Microsoft continued to update even into 2019. There's a reg edit that will trick Windows update into thinking you're running Windows POSReady instead of XP, and will download security updates that are recent, but will work on XP. You should look into that for a video.
Unfortunately, there is Windows POSReady 7 but the updates are not compatible with 7 because POSReady 7 has different build/editions. So far you can only get Windows 7 Paid updates (supported until 2023 along with 8.1).
I like NLite. It's a great tool, community modifications are an awesome aspect to computing. I'm waiting to see what the community does for Windows 7 to try to keep it alive after "end of life".
@@LouisSubearth Someone already figured out a way to trick Microsoft into thinking you paid for the extended support. Microsoft has already patched that.
Can we get NLite/NTLite on Linux, as I no longer run Windows for my current daily use machines, and at least on Manjaro I can't seem to find it in Pamac even with the AUR enabled. and personally don't feel like spending a ton of time trying to get it run under Wine, as I need to redo the XP install on my retro Pentium 4 gaming build I dual boot 98SE/XP SP3 (I just swap the SATA cable to the drive I want to use for that period of time) now that I know about SP4, and would like a clean install as I messed up some stuff to be honest.
@@CommodoreFan64 I think your best bet would be to create an ISO with NLite/NTLite in a VM then transfer it out of the VM and use Linux to burn a DVD or create a USB drive.
Good ol' nLite. I used to slipstream ahci drivers with it back in the day (xp won't find any drives on later machines that have it forced / and or enabled by the user). You should enable it to get the full performance so it's totally worth it :) As to if XP really is worth it these days remains debatable tho. Modern OS's can pretty much run all XP apps and w32/dos apps are flaky on all of them, xp included. Much more prefer w98 for such stuff
Retro Donut same here. Its a pain in the butt so far. No support from MS, no working webbrowser (ie doesnt load 99% of the web pages). So I am kinda stuck now with Windows XP sp2.
Anyone remember doing this in the old days and having your soda or coffee while it would write the files to the usb/dvd and then while you wait for windows to install youd watch tv
I really miss xp for the search inside files function and for the shortcuts of folders in the task bar . I intend to install it on a computer which will be disconnected from the web.
Huh, 10 years after my last use with Windows XP, I'm glad to see something new that's more streamline to install in case I stumble upon it in the future
I'll be doing a very similar set up with my old 2008 MacBook (non Pro). If you have any tips, I'd love to know! Currently, my old version of XP is like SP1, but it's te full version for computers without Windows. Cost me a fortune when I bought it back in like 2005.
Using Nlite I used to have an up-to-date Windows XP installer that was served from a Linux PXE server. Would have the OS completely installed and booted to the desktop in an hour and 10 minutes.
Same for 7 :D First version without SP 1 has like 40 updates before it lets you install SP1. After that you have a queue of 190+ updates to install lol
Every os with a long support time have the same problem,and Microsoft don't release a all update bundled install image. Any old os vm for nostalgia will be a pain during the installation. Also Microsoft had take down the update service for the os before 9x and nt4 era(2000 before she also included because they used an older version of it)
At least the updates on XP where not forced, and did not wipe the data on your drives like Windows 10 did for me, and many others, along with many other issues too numerous to list here. Windows 10 is the reason I'm no longer an MS user on my current daily use machines, have since fully switched to Linux earlier this year, and have settled for now with Manjaro W/ Budgie DE as my distro of choice on all the machines in my home, and the work I do for a small non profit for seniors. the only things I have that have an MS OS on it now are my old Zenith DataSystems 286e SuperSport laptop with DOS 5.1, and a fully loaded dual boot Pentium 4(uses a salvaged Dell Mobo) system that dual boots Win 98se, and XP SP3(will redo it now that I know about SP4).
as i recall we used to have bootables installing even Office and preconfigured backup solutions... it is indeed a time saving solution, especially when it comes to settings within the XP. northon ghost also used to be big back in the day for cloning the hdds of similar machines such as a classroom or internet cafe...
This does NOT compute is my tagline for the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool with bonus errors, non-stop updates and so much more, ALL on a borrowed laptop for the 1st tool download. June 2020 will be a FULL year, with a collection of 5 flash drives of "10 Who Knows What" because MY laptop is STiLL NoT fixed and running along with having MY DATA. Everything was fine using XP, 7, 8 but since waking up to an update to Windows 10 in need of a TOOL nothing about it's fine. As I'm still waiting on another Microsoft IT to call, just watching more videos in hopes I'll come across a fix that DOES compute with me and my ol' laptop while salvages ALL my data. BTW, I never forgot my password, it simply wouldn't take it. I swear the "system" hacked my system, 30+ calls to support, no one can answer why and no one has helped to fixing it. BIZARRE! Your video was great, looked easy and you spoke clear English, I might could compute that to my compute. But I'm afraid I'd lose my files forever. I'm not giving up though! Keep making legible great vids, I'm watching!
The problem I have now is finding all the drivers for my Dell XPS 420. Not sure if I need any other drivers besides what Dell gives on their support page for my system but it's making me miss what Windows 7 provides with its basic drivers it provides off the bat.
I loved nLite. I've been a software developer for 20 years, and in the early days of XP, we used nLite all the time to do testing for installations. We were able to slipstream in all of our baseline third party software, strip out drivers we didn't need, make it completely unattended, etc. This made it incredibly easy to wipe a computer and start over with a known install. Rather than spending several hours installing Windows and adding everything we needed, you could start your custom nLite install, walk away, and have a testing machine ready in 20 minutes. Then VMWare came along and ruined all the fun - making it even easier and more convenient to test things by just duplicating a VM (not sure VMWare was first, but it was the first VM system we used). Even more significant than just testing, our software no longer even needed an installer. We would just give our customers a completely configured VM, which got rid of all the install / config problems we had over the years. I wouldn't really want to go back to the old way, but i'm a little nostalgic for that process of slimming down an XP build until it's tiny and perfectly suited to the task i needed it for.
@@jaymax7225 No, we provided the VM with everything required already bundled in, and the companies we were dealing with could drop it into their own VM host.
You should backup your Windows computer periodically with a backup imaging program like Acronis True Image periodically, when your computer is functioning properly. Then when your computer breaks due to malware or other problems, you can quickly recover to a point in time in the recent past, when your computer was working properly. Most people never take images of their computers, and are burnt when their computers fail.
@@thegoodguy44 Ikr, especially those of your butthole 😁 printing one of those images and taping it to the monitor while you're formatting and re-installing your PC when inevitably one of those forced spyware, *ahem*sorry, I mean feature updates fucks up your Windows 10 installation again might lift your spirit *when* it happens again. I know from experience that I've got to tape one of those starshots to my monitor *atleast* once every 6 to 8 months. Makes me grin just thinking about it 😁 and I have been postponing one of those stupid update prompts. I couldn't postpone it further than 15 or 16 January so it might be time to start looking for my stack of photopaper and those special ink cartridges again ☺️ if I feel like it I might even whip out that new SuperZoom UltraHD camera I got for my birthday a few weeks ago to take a new image. I reckon that new masterpiece, especially when printed on my special and expensive photopaper, would appreciate hanging among the stars, wouldn't you agree?
Link for unofficial Service Pack is down. Besides, do we know it is safe?? I prefer to load all the updates once manually and slipstream them via nLite into the modified ISO
I use Manjaro Linux W/Budgie DE for my modern OS as I just can't stand MS has gone with Windows 10, and I wonder if there is something for Linux like nLite/NTlite?
Nlite is just a aftermarket GUI for functionality that Microsoft provided. You have always been able to make a windows xp unattended cd complete with drivers and installation of hotfixes during the install. It was a very manual process so nlite with its GUI makes it easier.
This...is life changing. I install Windows on dozens of machines for Ebay every month and between SDI driver pack and multi hour updates, I spend a lot of time doing this.
I'm dedicating a box to *Windows* *XP* , so my wife can play older games such as *MYST* This is going to speed up the process of setting up the box. Thanks!!
The question is, even after all this, is it safe to put XP on the internet? Wont it always have unpatchable vulnerabilities? I use XP in multiple bench test burn-in systems, but run a cracked XPSP2 and never connect it to the internet assuming it leaks like a sieve and will soon be enrolled in numerous russian botnets if connected.
Depends on if you’re putting it directly on a public IP with no firewall, or behind a router/firewall with NAT. The former? Yeah you’re screwed pretty much immediately. The latter, well you’d be protected from unsolicited inbound traffic, but I still wouldn’t browse the Web with it.
Nick Wallette I thought as of SP3, you could simply patch a *.ull file to use those custom styles as StyleXP was no longer compatible. My WinXP laptop has a Sailor Moon UI that required it.
But a big thing ive always wondered with people installing XP now is how do people activate it or prevent it from being locked after 30 days? I would of liked to been able to reinstall XP on a old laptop I have but I couldn't keep it due to the activation, and im not sure any good trustful ways on doing so since theres odd activators and whatnot that could be viruses.
Annyoing that nowadays you cant even activate XP because the XP’s activation server has been put down… Even if your activation code is legit… It just doesnt work and thats a big problem…
Ever used "DriverPacks", or nLite with the DriverPacks collection of XP drivers? You could, in theory, slipstream an almost complete set of device drivers for XP into an install, though it never worked quite right for me (never worked for the video or sound drivers.).
For those, who need a safe browser for Windows XP, please check msfn.org/board/topic/180462-my-browser-builds-part-2 A user called roytam1 provides builds for Serpent/UXP (based on Firefox52ESR), K-Meleon-Goanna and other browsers for Windows XP. These browsers get frequent security patches and work very well.
What architecture do you have, 32 or 64 bits? Is it valid to install the new programs and games that have come out, for example, Photoshop CC 2019 or CC 2020? The latter can only be installed on Windows 10, thank you very much and happy new year
I used NLite and a self-written unattended install script, in the Windows XP days. I always carried one of those "U3" USB sticks around that pretends that they are a CD-ROM drive, with a CD image that would boot to a command prompt in XP-PE or XP-Embedded, and I had a system of batch files that could partition a drive, format it, copy the i386 directory to the hard disk and start an unattended XP install that would finish within 15 minutes or so. It took me some time to get that right but it saved me so much time! "Service Pack 4" and NTLite are new to me though. I'll have to look into those. Thanks!
Any suggestions on running Windows XP from a USB (no installation).. like the Live XP / PE versions of Windows that are generated with WinBuilder? I've tried burning* these images onto USB drives (thumb and HDD), but they always cause a Blue-Screen-Of-Death (0x7B) during boot. *WinToFlash, BootICE, RMPrepUSB, FlashBoot, Easy2Boot, etc
@@fightingforce8498 Thanks, any idea if XP can be installed onto a PC that has a SATA drive? I have a 2011 Laptop that originally came with Win7 (sata), however, when I try to install 32-bit XP SP3 Corp from a CD, I get the blue-screen-of-death (error 0x00000007B) which appears to have to do with storage device-driver. I saw that the XP source code is available, but not sure if there will ever be a version that USB/SATA natively. Maybe ReactOS?
I wasn't aware of SP4 either... Definitely means that I have to rethink a few things regarding reinstalling XP on an older Opteron 180 PC I have knocking about! I was already going to use KernelEx on a Pentium 4 build that I have so I could install slightly newer software on it so I'm able to use it online when I need to download certain software and drivers or visit certain sites!
You best keep it offline or it will be infected in a matter of weeks. I like the OS but offline only. It is great for a lot of retro games that will not run in Windows 10 without some tweaks.
Another nice advantage of injecting drivers into the install disc is that the XP installer will actually look nice instead of using like, 8-bit colour.
Nostalgia. I member in 2006 doing this exact thing every couple months. nLite, also packing all my drivers conveniently in a zip file to one-click re-install all of them in the fresh copy of Windows. Once I got my first MacBook that year I didn't have to do any of these ever
brilliant! I had no idea about Nlite. It sounds fantastic! I wanna rebuild my old pc with all my old music software and tracks. It’s been a nightmare getting it all working on newer OS’s which has gone on for years 😖
i tried to install XP on a Dell Latitude E6400 and i failed because nobody makes drivers for windows XP anymore, Dell's drivers for the laptop don't support windows xp anymore, the drivers i was able to find where for the WiFi and the Ethernet but there no sound drivers, so if your going to Use windows XP BE WARNED a lot of companies no longer offer drivers for your type of computer, the solution is to just buy an older PC with windows XP preinstalled.
AutoPatcher was a good option for installing update with less hassle. Although not as simple as this, but still useful for the currently supported (and soon not to be) Windows versions.
Colin, great video! I have been following your channel for quite some time now but I rarely comment. This video in particular got my attention as I have a machine that came with XP and I would like to install XP and have it fully functioning but the drivers are going to be a pain. As you have shown with nLite it can be quite easy. My issue is I have to use PLOP as a boot manager to boot off of USB devices. Thank you for uploading this video.
Used nLite for _so many_ XP and 2000 installations back in the day when I did freelance computer repair work. Saves so much time!
Had no idea about the unofficial SP4 though, that's awesome. Thanks for the info!
I thought someone like u would have more likes on the comment
Take my like
Yeah, I actually found it most useful for the whole F6 disk driver floppy thing. Way back when I got a batch of new servers at work that needed Server 2003, but didn't come with built-in floppy drives, and USB floppy drive support in Windows setup was spotty. Injected the RAID drivers into the install and off I went.
ha ha ... I guess Clint's followers we are kind of shy @Jacob McCloskey...
There goes the 5th like ..
Or maybe we're around... Ross's Game Dungeon today :-o
I was personally watching Diepiify trying not to get crush by building pieces ..
>> ua-cam.com/video/GVL8Nd0YvR8/v-deo.html ..
yeah fan made game.. :-) ...
and for the XP from USB thing, rufus just does it now. there's no need for any weird utilities. rufus is king.
The thing is that the tech/nerd community.. we have so much great people and material here ... sometimes it's difficult to keep up..... look... this woman has a piece of the Saturn V LVDC computer.. first chips made as we know them today.. in a 12-layer circuit board .. Surface Mount (SMD) !! .. 3-layer ceramic chips in the late 60's !! ...
then someone from NASA (I think) donate to her... a damaged one...
so... yeah.. she make a series disassembling those chips under a microscope..
>> ua-cam.com/video/w8QdF4J9mTI/v-deo.html
Windows XP is now voting age.
SO
It's now legal...
The real question is, where can i get a copy of WinXP for free?
@@thingshappen9199 Google
It's now about to be drinking age (at least for the US- it's way over my country's drinking age!)
I like how Windows XP is just modern enough to feel borderline vintage and “current” at the same time.
I remember upgrading from windows 98SE to XP and being so blown away. It was like Windows was now awesome!
@@thegoodguy44 Then it got shitty again with Vista(unless you knew all tricks), then 7 came it got decent again, then came the horror that was 8, then 8.1 which was fixable, and for me Windows 10 was my ultimate last straw fight with MS.
AMD has really stepped up their Linux support, and I finally moved all my computers to Manjaro Linux with Budgie DE earlier this year, and have not looked back(unless you count my retro P4 98se/XP build), and if someone I know like my elder aunt is not comfortable with Manjaro, and/or a non gamer with only basic needs, then I set them up with Neverware Cloud Ready OS(Chromium OS).
@@CommodoreFan64 vista is a lot better than xp, luna theme sucks
xp doesnt have native support for SATA.. it is technical. legacy mode with sata HDD work fine but native.. it will refuse to boot into xp unless u install sata driver.. for the new generation of today.. they are clueless. we middle age user knows well . why xp is better for fixing HDD or flash drives.. SD card. all ya know how to do is turn on and not a pc tech. people today are so ignorant and ignorant of pc trouble shooting. very important. think independent. im not a mac user btw.
@@samanthatang9759 you could always slipstream the SATA driver in your XP installation media. That way it can be hassle free every time you install xp. You can try universal SATA driver from fernando's website.
Colin, are you familiar with Windows POSReady 2009? Its a version of Windows XP that ran on ATMs that Microsoft continued to update even into 2019. There's a reg edit that will trick Windows update into thinking you're running Windows POSReady instead of XP, and will download security updates that are recent, but will work on XP. You should look into that for a video.
it wasn't just ATMs, it was other things as well
Actually POSReady 2009 ended support on April 2019 already.
we need win7 posready
Unfortunately, there is Windows POSReady 7 but the updates are not compatible with 7 because POSReady 7 has different build/editions. So far you can only get Windows 7 Paid updates (supported until 2023 along with 8.1).
@@megakarlach2 laughs in pirate
"Windows XP is a popular choice for retro computer..." ok now I feel old.
Yeah, you’re not the only one.
@@ThisDoesNotCompute can do this process on a virtual box?
I like NLite. It's a great tool, community modifications are an awesome aspect to computing. I'm waiting to see what the community does for Windows 7 to try to keep it alive after "end of life".
7 Will have its "Service Pack 4" moment like XP does for sure, as well as using 8.1 updates in the mix if people feel daring.
@@LouisSubearth Someone already figured out a way to trick Microsoft into thinking you paid for the extended support. Microsoft has already patched that.
Can we get NLite/NTLite on Linux, as I no longer run Windows for my current daily use machines, and at least on Manjaro I can't seem to find it in Pamac even with the AUR enabled. and personally don't feel like spending a ton of time trying to get it run under Wine, as I need to redo the XP install on my retro Pentium 4 gaming build I dual boot 98SE/XP SP3 (I just swap the SATA cable to the drive I want to use for that period of time) now that I know about SP4, and would like a clean install as I messed up some stuff to be honest.
@@CommodoreFan64 I think your best bet would be to create an ISO with NLite/NTLite in a VM then transfer it out of the VM and use Linux to burn a DVD or create a USB drive.
@@PenguinRevolution That is very true, and honestly something I did not think about. 👍
DVD disc = Digital Versatile Disc disc.
This situation is similar to AC current. "Alternating Current current"
Or LCD Display… Liquid Crystal Display display.
OCD Disorder
PIN number
9:54 on the Shift key. :)
Good ol' nLite. I used to slipstream ahci drivers with it back in the day (xp won't find any drives on later machines that have it forced / and or enabled by the user).
You should enable it to get the full performance so it's totally worth it :)
As to if XP really is worth it these days remains debatable tho. Modern OS's can pretty much run all XP apps and w32/dos apps are flaky on all of them, xp included.
Much more prefer w98 for such stuff
Thanks for making this! Have an old xp laptop that needs a fresh xp install!
Retro Donut same here. Its a pain in the butt so far. No support from MS, no working webbrowser (ie doesnt load 99% of the web pages). So I am kinda stuck now with Windows XP sp2.
Simply use Windows XP SP2, because starting from SP3 Windows XP lost VERY MUCH performance and there are very few games that need more than SP2.
I Still use windows xp in my old pc .and use live linux when i have some work
Anyone remember doing this in the old days and having your soda or coffee while it would write the files to the usb/dvd and then while you wait for windows to install youd watch tv
Please make a NTlite video
Can you slipstream drivers for Windows XP to install on a Windows 11 computer?
Yeah we need a show/review/demonstration on NT Lite
..I still use xp for arduino esp8266 programming... Fast versions of window
I really miss xp for the search inside files function and for the shortcuts of folders in the task bar . I intend to install it on a computer which will be disconnected from the web.
The NT Lite does look even more easier than Microsoft ADK/MDK.
Curious what was the source for the drivers integrated and do they need to be in a specific format?
I use xp in virtual box just so I can play 32bit and under games. I used to install it to HDD but never really understood how dangerous it is in 2020.
So cool, I love retro tech, m pretty nostalgic about this stuff, Keep making similar videos, You earned a SUB !
You had a relaxing voice !!!!! LOVE it
Huh, 10 years after my last use with Windows XP, I'm glad to see something new that's more streamline to install in case I stumble upon it in the future
this must be a similar method to how OEM's have all of those programs and default wallpapers on the windows install that comes out of the box. neat.
I will definitely be trying this when I redo XP BootCamp on my 2008 Mac Pro. It was a pain to get setup the first time.
I'll be doing a very similar set up with my old 2008 MacBook (non Pro). If you have any tips, I'd love to know! Currently, my old version of XP is like SP1, but it's te full version for computers without Windows. Cost me a fortune when I bought it back in like 2005.
Using Nlite I used to have an up-to-date Windows XP installer that was served from a Linux PXE server. Would have the OS completely installed and booted to the desktop in an hour and 10 minutes.
Windows Update on XP was a nightmare
Same for 7 :D First version without SP 1 has like 40 updates before it lets you install SP1. After that you have a queue of 190+ updates to install lol
Every os with a long support time have the same problem,and Microsoft don't release a all update bundled install image.
Any old os vm for nostalgia will be a pain during the installation.
Also Microsoft had take down the update service for the os before 9x and nt4 era(2000 before she also included because they used an older version of it)
Come to think of it, in the beginning nobody really gave a damn, until it hit the fan........
At least the updates on XP where not forced, and did not wipe the data on your drives like Windows 10 did for me, and many others, along with many other issues too numerous to list here. Windows 10 is the reason I'm no longer an MS user on my current daily use machines, have since fully switched to Linux earlier this year, and have settled for now with Manjaro W/ Budgie DE as my distro of choice on all the machines in my home, and the work I do for a small non profit for seniors.
the only things I have that have an MS OS on it now are my old Zenith DataSystems 286e SuperSport laptop with DOS 5.1, and a fully loaded dual boot Pentium 4(uses a salvaged Dell Mobo) system that dual boots Win 98se, and XP SP3(will redo it now that I know about SP4).
nLite is wonderful! Was super useful for slimming down XP for netbooks and super low-end PCs even back when XP was still popular. Great tips!
Wish I knew about this the other day when install XP lol
Great to know about NTLite though, that's incredibly useful!
thanks i wanted a better version of xp for my old pc
Is there a way to bit torrent all the updates for Win10 so I can slipstream them in my ISO?
I would like to know if it is possible to install Windows XP 32bit on a motherboard a320 am4 with ryzen. Thank you for your time.
as i recall we used to have bootables installing even Office and preconfigured backup solutions... it is indeed a time saving solution, especially when it comes to settings within the XP.
northon ghost also used to be big back in the day for cloning the hdds of similar machines such as a classroom or internet cafe...
Hi This Does Not Compute,
Where are the drivers? I do not see them in the description...
Signed,
Andrew Donnell
My school still uses XP. Vladimir Putin still uses XP. Wtf.
CHIP Windows XP Update PackVersion 1.0 Final
www.chip.de/downloads/CHIP-Windows-XP-Update-Pack_68720051.html
This does NOT compute is my tagline for the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool with bonus errors, non-stop updates and so much more, ALL on a borrowed laptop for the 1st tool download. June 2020 will be a FULL year, with a collection of 5 flash drives of "10 Who Knows What" because MY laptop is STiLL NoT fixed and running along with having MY DATA. Everything was fine using XP, 7, 8 but since waking up to an update to Windows 10 in need of a TOOL nothing about it's fine. As I'm still waiting on another Microsoft IT to call, just watching more videos in hopes I'll come across a fix that DOES compute with me and my ol' laptop while salvages ALL my data. BTW, I never forgot my password, it simply wouldn't take it. I swear the "system" hacked my system, 30+ calls to support, no one can answer why and no one has helped to fixing it. BIZARRE!
Your video was great, looked easy and you spoke clear English, I might could compute that to my compute. But I'm afraid I'd lose my files forever. I'm not giving up though! Keep making legible great vids, I'm watching!
The problem I have now is finding all the drivers for my Dell XPS 420. Not sure if I need any other drivers besides what Dell gives on their support page for my system but it's making me miss what Windows 7 provides with its basic drivers it provides off the bat.
I loved nLite. I've been a software developer for 20 years, and in the early days of XP, we used nLite all the time to do testing for installations. We were able to slipstream in all of our baseline third party software, strip out drivers we didn't need, make it completely unattended, etc. This made it incredibly easy to wipe a computer and start over with a known install. Rather than spending several hours installing Windows and adding everything we needed, you could start your custom nLite install, walk away, and have a testing machine ready in 20 minutes.
Then VMWare came along and ruined all the fun - making it even easier and more convenient to test things by just duplicating a VM (not sure VMWare was first, but it was the first VM system we used). Even more significant than just testing, our software no longer even needed an installer. We would just give our customers a completely configured VM, which got rid of all the install / config problems we had over the years.
I wouldn't really want to go back to the old way, but i'm a little nostalgic for that process of slimming down an XP build until it's tiny and perfectly suited to the task i needed it for.
Did you install the vm remotely?
@@jaymax7225 No, we provided the VM with everything required already bundled in, and the companies we were dealing with could drop it into their own VM host.
You should backup your Windows computer periodically with a backup imaging program like Acronis True Image periodically, when your computer is functioning properly. Then when your computer breaks due to malware or other problems, you can quickly recover to a point in time in the recent past, when your computer was working properly. Most people never take images of their computers, and are burnt when their computers fail.
Images are awesome.
@@thegoodguy44 Ikr, especially those of your butthole 😁 printing one of those images and taping it to the monitor while you're formatting and re-installing your PC when inevitably one of those forced spyware, *ahem*sorry, I mean feature updates fucks up your Windows 10 installation again might lift your spirit *when* it happens again. I know from experience that I've got to tape one of those starshots to my monitor *atleast* once every 6 to 8 months. Makes me grin just thinking about it 😁 and I have been postponing one of those stupid update prompts. I couldn't postpone it further than 15 or 16 January so it might be time to start looking for my stack of photopaper and those special ink cartridges again ☺️ if I feel like it I might even whip out that new SuperZoom UltraHD camera I got for my birthday a few weeks ago to take a new image. I reckon that new masterpiece, especially when printed on my special and expensive photopaper, would appreciate hanging among the stars, wouldn't you agree?
so nlite doesn't include the OS, drivers n hotfixes? you still have to source those yourself???
MyPal web browser is must if your gonna use WinXp
Hi, thanks for the video. Can you use NTlite w10 to create xp images or do you absolutely need to run NLite on a xp computer ?
Link for unofficial Service Pack is down. Besides, do we know it is safe?? I prefer to load all the updates once manually and slipstream them via nLite into the modified ISO
Great Video and very useful, even in the Windows 10 era ! Thanks !
I use Manjaro Linux W/Budgie DE for my modern OS as I just can't stand MS has gone with Windows 10, and I wonder if there is something for Linux like nLite/NTlite?
Yeah, I've been off Windows for about 6 years now. I'd love an nlite for Linux.
Does it matter which sp4 you use from your link? Does that sp4 need to be in a particular format for nLite? Thanks! Great video!!
Nlite is just a aftermarket GUI for functionality that Microsoft provided. You have always been able to make a windows xp unattended cd complete with drivers and installation of hotfixes during the install. It was a very manual process so nlite with its GUI makes it easier.
What program did you use that came native with windows xp to do that?
SP2 is the most compatible for games.
This...is life changing. I install Windows on dozens of machines for Ebay every month and between SDI driver pack and multi hour updates, I spend a lot of time doing this.
I would like to know how you do it please
I'm dedicating a box to *Windows* *XP* , so my wife can play older games such as *MYST*
This is going to speed up the process of setting up the box. Thanks!!
Hey, how would i install XP in an older laptop with a product WinXP key but it has no HDD?
I just bought a PC with Win Xp SP3 on, best money spent this year.
How much did you pay for it? Something like a core 2 duo pc is very cheap
Can NLite and Service Pack4 be installed in a virtual machine in Windows 10?
how to use this to install xp on newer machines.
After creating the DVD, install on newer machine using VBox
The question is, even after all this, is it safe to put XP on the internet? Wont it always have unpatchable vulnerabilities? I use XP in multiple bench test burn-in systems, but run a cracked XPSP2 and never connect it to the internet assuming it leaks like a sieve and will soon be enrolled in numerous russian botnets if connected.
Depends on if you’re putting it directly on a public IP with no firewall, or behind a router/firewall with NAT. The former? Yeah you’re screwed pretty much immediately. The latter, well you’d be protected from unsolicited inbound traffic, but I still wouldn’t browse the Web with it.
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Nick Wallette I thought as of SP3, you could simply patch a *.ull file to use those custom styles as StyleXP was no longer compatible. My WinXP laptop has a Sailor Moon UI that required it.
Thanks for the video 😁👍
I don't know man... Windows xp is always exciting.. 😄😄
i have 0x0000007b bsod, do i install only sp4 or sp3 and then sp4?
But a big thing ive always wondered with people installing XP now is how do people activate it or prevent it from being locked after 30 days? I would of liked to been able to reinstall XP on a old laptop I have but I couldn't keep it due to the activation, and im not sure any good trustful ways on doing so since theres odd activators and whatnot that could be viruses.
Okay, but from where we take all that Drivers that you have in that folder?
You still got to download those, but a surprising many manufacturers still have those drivers up, like HP for example.
Thank you so much for telling about this tool
Annyoing that nowadays you cant even activate XP because the XP’s activation server has been put down… Even if your activation code is legit… It just doesnt work and thats a big problem…
My understanding is that activating by telephone still works.
Ever used "DriverPacks", or nLite with the DriverPacks collection of XP drivers? You could, in theory, slipstream an almost complete set of device drivers for XP into an install, though it never worked quite right for me (never worked for the video or sound drivers.).
Wow! Just found and tried this, and it worked perfectly!
For those, who need a safe browser for Windows XP, please check
msfn.org/board/topic/180462-my-browser-builds-part-2
A user called roytam1 provides builds for Serpent/UXP (based on Firefox52ESR), K-Meleon-Goanna and other browsers for Windows XP. These browsers get frequent security patches and work very well.
ntlite did nothing , seems Win 7 on my machine hates it or visa versa.
What architecture do you have, 32 or 64 bits? Is it valid to install the new programs and games that have come out, for example, Photoshop CC 2019 or CC 2020? The latter can only be installed on Windows 10, thank you very much and happy new year
nLite and its kind of succesor, NTLite, are awesome pieces of software. Windows 10 would not be bearable for me without NTLite.
I used NLite and a self-written unattended install script, in the Windows XP days. I always carried one of those "U3" USB sticks around that pretends that they are a CD-ROM drive, with a CD image that would boot to a command prompt in XP-PE or XP-Embedded, and I had a system of batch files that could partition a drive, format it, copy the i386 directory to the hard disk and start an unattended XP install that would finish within 15 minutes or so. It took me some time to get that right but it saved me so much time!
"Service Pack 4" and NTLite are new to me though. I'll have to look into those. Thanks!
Any suggestions on running Windows XP from a USB (no installation).. like the Live XP / PE versions of Windows that are generated with WinBuilder?
I've tried burning* these images onto USB drives (thumb and HDD), but they always cause a Blue-Screen-Of-Death (0x7B) during boot.
*WinToFlash, BootICE, RMPrepUSB, FlashBoot, Easy2Boot, etc
Doesn't work USB. Try using CD method.
@@fightingforce8498 Thanks, any idea if XP can be installed onto a PC that has a SATA drive?
I have a 2011 Laptop that originally came with Win7 (sata), however, when I try to install 32-bit XP SP3 Corp from a CD, I get the blue-screen-of-death (error 0x00000007B) which appears to have to do with storage device-driver.
I saw that the XP source code is available, but not sure if there will ever be a version that USB/SATA natively. Maybe ReactOS?
I miss xp
There is/was also vLite doing the same thing for Vista.
Thou Shalt NOT Mention the Name of The Beast
I wasn't aware of SP4 either... Definitely means that I have to rethink a few things regarding reinstalling XP on an older Opteron 180 PC I have knocking about! I was already going to use KernelEx on a Pentium 4 build that I have so I could install slightly newer software on it so I'm able to use it online when I need to download certain software and drivers or visit certain sites!
You best keep it offline or it will be infected in a matter of weeks. I like the OS but offline only. It is great for a lot of retro games that will not run in Windows 10 without some tweaks.
Another nice advantage of injecting drivers into the install disc is that the XP installer will actually look nice instead of using like, 8-bit colour.
Nostalgia. I member in 2006 doing this exact thing every couple months. nLite, also packing all my drivers conveniently in a zip file to one-click re-install all of them in the fresh copy of Windows. Once I got my first MacBook that year I didn't have to do any of these ever
XP64 still the best
brilliant! I had no idea about Nlite. It sounds fantastic! I wanna rebuild my old pc with all my old music software and tracks. It’s been a nightmare getting it all working on newer OS’s which has gone on for years 😖
Damn, I don't think I have any more DVDD disc drives. :( I recall using nLite back in the day, to actually make a, well, lite installation.
How did you get that folder full of drivers?
Is there a version of Nlite or a similar utility for Windows 9x OSes?
My install win xp button has blur and i can't choose that. How can i fix that?
if you bake SP3 or 4 into this installer with an older pre-activated version of xp, does it still ask to be validated later on?
X p want install on anything 10 years old
bro, i would be really happy if someone created a Windows XP Custom iso supported for UEFI users.
IS THIS COMPATIBLE WITH A UEFI MOBO¡?
Can you include installers for nvida drivers through nlite?
Used nLite all thru the XP era, mainly to integrate the AHCI drivers and Service Packs. Also used the NTLite for Windows 7 for the constant updates.
i tried to install XP on a Dell Latitude E6400 and i failed because nobody makes drivers for windows XP anymore, Dell's drivers for the laptop don't support windows xp anymore, the drivers i was able to find where for the WiFi and the Ethernet but there no sound drivers, so if your going to Use windows XP BE WARNED a lot of companies no longer offer drivers for your type of computer, the solution is to just buy an older PC with windows XP preinstalled.
Does this also apply to Dell precision 7510?
Then how about the wif😊😊 driver?
yeahh This is very cool stuf man
Just being curious, do we still have copyright issue on Windows XP nowadays?
AutoPatcher was a good option for installing update with less hassle. Although not as simple as this, but still useful for the currently supported (and soon not to be) Windows versions.
You can modify boot logo?
Amazing video!
Colin, great video! I have been following your channel for quite some time now but I rarely comment. This video in particular got my attention as I have a machine that came with XP and I would like to install XP and have it fully functioning but the drivers are going to be a pain. As you have shown with nLite it can be quite easy. My issue is I have to use PLOP as a boot manager to boot off of USB devices. Thank you for uploading this video.
nLite and NTLite are awesome. Thanks for making a video about this!
i just got a "new" thinkpad and this is a godsend because iv been having odd issues along the way. im definetly goign to give it a try
Please show us a Custom Windows 7
@Cody Carson It's emulated on ALL NT systems. They did remove 16-bit support on 64-bit versions tho. This includes 64-bit versions of xp and 2003 too.
@Cody Carson 16 bit program is only available on 32 bit program and some third party software do this perfectly on x64 windows systems