It’s the end of the world. You lock yourself in a bunker, not knowing when the earth would be liveable again. There you find an old computer running Windows XP Gold and it is now your imperative to debloat it.
... except you need a copy of Windows XP on a disc and Hiren's Boot CD to be able to debloat it anyway, so in this scenario, it'd be better to just override Gold XP with Windows XP, no? Although, you could add that there's data that must not be destroyed on the disk to make it appealing?
To be fair, would you really want to debloat? You wouldn't be able to use the Internet, so through removing everything not only are you losing that content permanently, you will just have less stuff to do lol
Opposite. I long for an OS this... cluttered and maximalist. Every screen has been edited to make it more flashy for no good reason. It's beautiful to me
Hi MichaelMJD, it’s Aaron formerly Buttoncrusher from the Original XP Gold Video, I can’t believe it’s been 8 years already. Also Congrats on 500K, Can’t wait to see you reach 1 Mil. Keep up the awesome work.
If you want a bigger challenge try removing Norton antivirus from windows vista. The absolute pain that is caused when you realize that the removal tool doesn’t work on that old of a version of Norton.
@ I fail to see the comedic side of manually removing files and registry entries that most of which usually require a user level higher than administrator to alter in the first place. Maybe perhaps you’re referring to the comedic side of how Norton can take down a computer much the same way crowdstrike did earlier this year with an update but instead of an update causing the problem instead was just the crappy software that was installed from factory and never opened or updated before that decided it had enough of sitting silently and instead insisted in causing malicious behavior years later. Edit: stupid auto correct. Corrected
@@AmazedStoner I guess its cause I've had run-ins with overbearing anti viruses too. Despite being an avid pirater, the only thing even remotely considered a virus I have ever installed was Avira Antivirus on a school computer. And when I tell you it does not go away, it does NOT! The funny thing - at least to me, - was that the 'uninstall' feature was blocked by the school, (ironically, every student had administrator access tho LOL) leading to a certain something FAR overstaying it's welcome. The idea of a big technological youtuber (who knows what they're doing more than I) wading through similar hoops as my middle-schooler self scratches my brain in a funny way!
There isn’t a Vista removal tool? I remember having one for Windows XP and Windows 7 which worked on contemporary versions, so I hope they’d be one for Vista.
31:37 There are actually four different kernels used in Windows XP. During the installation of Windows, the setup checks how many cores the CPU has, whether it supports PAE, etc, then chooses one of these kernels and copies it to the system32 folder under the name of ntoskrnl.exe. The reason why it has happened in your video was that the kernel used by the physical computer and the virtual machine were actually different, so the system on the physical machine could not boot with the kernel installed on the virtual machine!
This is DEFINITELY some sort of bizarre Arab/Pakistani bootleg of XP. The Arabic text on the top of the boot screen translates to "In the name of God, the most gracious, the most merciful." Even tho I'm muslim (and Pakistani), something about that boot screen is making me wince. EDIT: 740 likes? Thanks a lot guys!
This is the infamous Gold Windows XP 2016 by Muhammed Sadeem. Michael did a video about it many years ago. It was distributed by a group calling themselves the Computer Worm Corporation in Pakistan.
@@vampvhs I Like Windows 11 but it would be great a way to delete all the bloatware ( Telemetry, Copilot, etc ) and just leave Windows 11 in the basic ( Like Windows XP that doesnt have any bloatware ) and Just keep the asthetic of course and stuff to Make work the Store and Game Pass, the rest is a lot of crap that just consume resource just for do it, and its kind of an issue because you´re a guy who makes a tutorial deleting even the goddamit sounds and get rid of it by a premade cmd or you make a weird alternative version of Windows 11 whit more bloatware but this time is not for Microsoft and its hell of unstable and unsafe, There is no or at least i didnt find it a point to clean enough Windows 11 but without rip it all apart
Replacing files with copies from a standard copy of Windows XP, that brings up the ship of thesies. There's a point where that installation stops being that installation as the individual files are replaced.
I think as long as he kept the integral files (not bootscreens bug the others in system32 that literally form the OS), he’s fine. He kept the hull and materials, but repainted it and fixed up holes.
I remember first seeing XP Gold Edition on a stream by Rogueamp and he called Muhammed Sadeem as his number was in the installer. Just turned out that in Pakistan at the time it was like 3AM lol.
the icons of the stuff that didn't change even if you modified it to change is due to the fact there's an icon cache. you need to clean it and every icon should be re-read from where it should
Iirc somebody deleted the system's UI files and the whole thing just became windows 10 It's like the ending of every scooby doo episode where the criminal gets unmasked lmao
I honestly think all these "bundled/bloated" Windows Builds are good challenges for technically adept people. It puts your knowledge of Windows to the test.
Instead of manually copying the system files over, you can do a System File Check (SFC) command and reference an external file source to verify against, and let Windows scan for and fix any non-standard files. There's a few tricks/methods, but the proper way I think is to boot into the Windows installer DVD/ISO Pre-install environment (PE) and run SFC from a command prompt there, since I dont think XP had a real recovery environment built-in like more modern Windows do. You can make custom windows boot disks with just the PE environment too, I haven't played with that in ages though and can't remember all the details.
very nice video michael here are some notes from my experience of debloating windows xp: if you install the sp3 update it will restore some of the stock files like the boot screen and logon screen and other system files, it is much faster and safer some you have to manually replace for ntoskrnl file it has to be the same exact version number otherwise it will result in a bootloop, as for the default user pictures they are located in "document and settings/all users/application data/microsoft/user account pictures" make sure you check show hidden files option from folder options, and finally to solve the issue when creating new accounts it will apply the classic theme and vista sounds :from hirens boot cd you have to copy ntuser.dat and ntuser.ini files from default user folder from another clean installation to defaultuser folder on the machine that is being debloated
This is great to restoring most of the original OS functionality, but it's far from an actual clean install as there's thousands of leftover files, dlls, registry entries, configuration files, etc. Still, I'm very impressed by the result.
It's less the "hitting the fan" and more the "clean up" that I find enjoyable. It's the struggle and the hope for and sharing in the success and also sharing in the failures sometimes. Idk. it's fun.
love how michael mjd just doesn't go into all leftover program files folders to see if they have an uninstall program and immediately goes to deleting them all
Just create a new user account, and then insert an official Windows XP disc, and do a repair upgrade. It worked for me undoing changes to this very same bootleg.
18:52 Brother that bootleg XP is blessed by God himself that it had the words "In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful" in the booting screen
Man, I used to see this damn thing a lot back when I was still doing PC repair for random customers. I'd never have taken the time to undo all of this, but bravo doing so! I'd still just assume it was compromised to hell and back though (not that one should be putting a WinXP machine anywhere near the open Internet but you get what I mean I'm sure.) Great vid!
You could have saved a lot of time if you did the following: 1) Boot from an installation media of Windows XP that matches the edition 2) Go through the regular install process, but STOP when it finishes searching for existing Windows installations 3) Highlight the correct XP installation and press R to repair, which will delete modified files and copy original files from the installation media
that would be against the spirit of the video i feel, the idea was to try to clean it by hand as much as possible (although copying system files from a boot media is kind of the same)
LETS GOOO my favorite UA-camr EVER did another video on Gold Edition XP. I still have a copy on a VM because of your original video. I still play with it from time to time.
The topmost pity is that the boot screen was never restored. But thanks Michael you led me know this Windows XP modification that I've gonna trying it right now!
12:55 the "config" folder contains the registry. I would assume that if you skipped that folder, it would fix the BSOD issue. As for the DLLs, it's possible that they patched some of them to bypass activation, and copying new ones simply reverts that. Copying ones from the RTM release of XP might yield a better success.
@@tennickjestzajety69 No, 7B is inaccessible boot device. Normally this would be disk controller drivers but this isn't normal. If you swap the registry it will be looking for the drive of the source system which isn't even connected (and beyond that there will most likely be many other things broken).
@@eDoc2020 yes and no - inaccessible boot device due to invalid disk controller settings. Invalid does not mean broken, rather (in this situation) set to a different controller that uses a different driver and service. If you use a generic SATA driver (e.g. GenAHCI) or standard IDE driver, the OS will find its "source" and boot correctly.
@@tennickjestzajety69 How will it ever find its source if it's literally not connected? Let's say the original partition has identifier 385 and the registry says drive C: has ID 385. If the drivers are okay it will work. If you copy a registry that says the C: drive is 983 it won't work because that partition doesn't exist.
@@white_suit_nickironswordfa208 It was admittedly totally lost on me until you said a name. Not familiar with this guy, but I see we have the matching profile picture going on
The 0x0000007B BSOD you got is generally caused by an inaccessible boot partition. Windows is very picky about the way it accesses storage devices, and if you change that method without changing other settings that tell Windows to use that new different access method, it will flip out and BSOD. Two common ways this can happen are you can change the storage controller mode from IDE to AHCI or vice versa. Or, you mirrored an IDE drive to a SATA drive and the SATA drive controller is in AHCI/RAID mode. Another way it can happen is if the storage controller driver is changed improperly or the files for the driver are clobbered, which probably happened when you overwrote all of system32.
The guys who are making XP Gold 2016 must have really drilled into the original Windows OS and also changed it so that attempts to change it from the outside are blocked. You should only use your own bootleg and nobody else's - you can see what comes out of it. I also changed my Windows 10 with Classic Shell but only the start menu, installed the Windows XP icons and retired those of Windows 10, installed the Windows XP task manager and the classic system configuration. Finally, I installed RetroBar. This is a small program that overlays the taskbars from old Windows versions onto those of Windows 10 and 11. RetroBar is not very well known, but I am proud that it comes from German developers. If you have time, you can make a short video about RetroBar.
0x7B stands for INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE. When you replaced everything in the system32 folder, you also overwrote the registry stored in system32/config so all the values that it expected to boot were likely set wrong as a result. Did you use a different computer with a different chipset or a different hard drive emulation mode ? Hiren's boot actually has a built-in fix for that. Don't recall where but there's definitely one of the tools that's labeled for this specific blue screen. I had to use it a couple times when swapping hard drive from one computer to another back in the days. Doubt this would have solved the other activation problem tho.
One of the things in the registry is the drive letter assignments. If you swap the registry it will be looking for the drive the registry was copied out of and will fail even if all the drivers are working.
Ahhh yes, this kind of reminds me of a time when I was cleaning off the old phone server at work because we were giving it to a non profit to use and we were upgrading to a new system. All I had to do was clean off anything related to the company WITHOUT wiping the drive and starting over. That was a fun job, but very tedious.
This reminds me of the Wild Wild West days of working IT 20 years ago, before stuff was locked down. Folks would complain their computers were slow and it would be caked with malware, cracked games, third-party apps, and crappy themes they tried to install.
@@Qwertypigeon853 Def True, but I was referring to corporate environments, where workstations are now locked down with group policies, admin access is limited, and known seedy websites are blocked by firewalls. I rarely see a malware-infected workstation these days at work, which is a good thing :)
@@YeanYean1993 Very true. Also Windows includes Defender or you install a third leg so it's unlike to get any maleware from cracked sodtware, games or apps
Not much left in the video but I just can't wait those extra minutes to see if he figured it out... The that ntkernal thing is machine specific. It will only load windows if it matches certain things exactly during the initial load up. With that said, back in the middle school and high school days, there was a tool you used to directly modify this file to change the boot animation to anything you want. It would also change the themes, login screen, sounds, and alot of other things. We used it allll the time to prank our teachers by making their computer boot up be something silly. Was loads of fun and happily enough, our school IT and staff in general actually didn't care. Some even encouraged it because it allowed alot of us to learn more about computers. Pretty sure this positivity during my school time is one of the bigger factors to why alot of my graduating class ended up going into alot of IT fields lol.
8:34 - That software is actually part of a Windows XP update to allow XP users to decrypt BitLocker To Go on removable drives in case someone performed a BL encryption on Vista and newer
I am sure that the blue xp theme was the luna theme.I know that if you wanna set the luna theme in retrobar it says win xp blue so the people who created xp gold could rename the luna theme to blue xp.
(First Modify the shell32.dll and imagres.dll) To change the icons you have to delete the current user and create a new one and the icons and other stuff will get reset
This was so intriguing! I also learned many things about how XP functions, so I'd say that was a win-win! Also, congrats! You deserve even more subscribers than this!
Here's an idea for a video (if you haven't done it yet): Set up Windows XP for daily use in 2024. Is it possible? What's the best PC you can build that'll both handle modern resource demand AND have XP driver support. What software will help more with security? Just all of that jazz. I've become more curious about that after reading more into Microsoft spyware in Windows 10 & 11.
Now that you've made this vid, this reminds me, I'm pretty sure that original vid on Windows XP Gold from 8 years ago that you did is how I found and subscribed to your channel
The digital version of destilling swamp water into drinkable water.
This comment is gold 🤣
@MiklosSzekely-gp4ou thanks
@MiklosSzekely-gp4ou gold xp
The digital versión of destilling swamp wáter into drinkable wáter MANUALLY
gotta boil the hell out of that shit
It’s the end of the world. You lock yourself in a bunker, not knowing when the earth would be liveable again. There you find an old computer running Windows XP Gold and it is now your imperative to debloat it.
... except you need a copy of Windows XP on a disc and Hiren's Boot CD to be able to debloat it anyway, so in this scenario, it'd be better to just override Gold XP with Windows XP, no?
Although, you could add that there's data that must not be destroyed on the disk to make it appealing?
To be fair, would you really want to debloat? You wouldn't be able to use the Internet, so through removing everything not only are you losing that content permanently, you will just have less stuff to do lol
Good thing i carry a bootable flash drive with Linux Mint around
@@Henryhuggerzmen and i tought i was the only one doing that😂
@@Jason_DE ayee :D
this is the polar opposite of vinesauce joel's windows destructions
Windows reconstruction
they should have a live duel where they're both trying to do opposite things to the same disk image in real time. it'll be like a hacker movie.
We’re still waiting for him to destroy windows 11 😂
@@MWHighways as if windows 11 wasn't already destroyed enough
@@nintendofan_64*lego building noises*
The logon screen's exe file is logonui.exe. winlogon in Windows XP is a critical system process. When terminated, it will crash.
Ha! Knew it was something with logon in it, lol.
Someone managed to terminate winlogon on XP without getting a blue screen
Didn't Enderman do it? (I think it was Enderman, but I'm not sure myself)@@newyoshistudio
@@ElzockiLP I think Bob Pony did
In Newer oses if you end winlogon it just takes you back to the logonui
To me, this is like deconstructing a cake back into its core components, removing a bunch of ingredients, and then baking the world’s most basic cake
GLaDOS core
You don't understand how uncomfortable using this OS would make me feel. It's like something crawling under my skin with that boot screen. My god.
CRAWLING IN MY SKIN
Opposite. I long for an OS this... cluttered and maximalist. Every screen has been edited to make it more flashy for no good reason. It's beautiful to me
@DanteToska Oh I don't mean the stock OS at the start, I mean the one at the end where he cleaned it up as best as he could.
@@psyclonepman THESE WOUNDS, THEY WILL NOT HEEAALLLL
COMPUTER WORM CORPORATION🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣
Hi MichaelMJD, it’s Aaron formerly Buttoncrusher from the Original XP Gold Video, I can’t believe it’s been 8 years already. Also Congrats on 500K, Can’t wait to see you reach 1 Mil. Keep up the awesome work.
If you want a bigger challenge try removing Norton antivirus from windows vista. The absolute pain that is caused when you realize that the removal tool doesn’t work on that old of a version of Norton.
Ay holup this sound comedic asf tho
@ I fail to see the comedic side of manually removing files and registry entries that most of which usually require a user level higher than administrator to alter in the first place. Maybe perhaps you’re referring to the comedic side of how Norton can take down a computer much the same way crowdstrike did earlier this year with an update but instead of an update causing the problem instead was just the crappy software that was installed from factory and never opened or updated before that decided it had enough of sitting silently and instead insisted in causing malicious behavior years later.
Edit: stupid auto correct. Corrected
@@AmazedStoner I guess its cause I've had run-ins with overbearing anti viruses too. Despite being an avid pirater, the only thing even remotely considered a virus I have ever installed was Avira Antivirus on a school computer. And when I tell you it does not go away, it does NOT! The funny thing - at least to me, - was that the 'uninstall' feature was blocked by the school, (ironically, every student had administrator access tho LOL) leading to a certain something FAR overstaying it's welcome. The idea of a big technological youtuber (who knows what they're doing more than I) wading through similar hoops as my middle-schooler self scratches my brain in a funny way!
There isn’t a Vista removal tool? I remember having one for Windows XP and Windows 7 which worked on contemporary versions, so I hope they’d be one for Vista.
Omg you unlocked suppressed memories. Thank you, Comcast.
31:37 There are actually four different kernels used in Windows XP. During the installation of Windows, the setup checks how many cores the CPU has, whether it supports PAE, etc, then chooses one of these kernels and copies it to the system32 folder under the name of ntoskrnl.exe. The reason why it has happened in your video was that the kernel used by the physical computer and the virtual machine were actually different, so the system on the physical machine could not boot with the kernel installed on the virtual machine!
So you're saying that maybe if he installed a clean XP on that PC, and copied ntoskernel from it, it could've worked? Amazing
Gold XP is the definition of "graphic design is my passion"
Digital arts student here. I assure you, IT GETS WORSE.
This is DEFINITELY some sort of bizarre Arab/Pakistani bootleg of XP. The Arabic text on the top of the boot screen translates to "In the name of God, the most gracious, the most merciful." Even tho I'm muslim (and Pakistani), something about that boot screen is making me wince.
EDIT: 740 likes? Thanks a lot guys!
The default user is also M SADEEM, which, unless that's Michael's last name, is also a hint.
This is the infamous Gold Windows XP 2016 by Muhammed Sadeem. Michael did a video about it many years ago. It was distributed by a group calling themselves the Computer Worm Corporation in Pakistan.
For Mosque PC ?😂
@@marksmithcollins Yeah, that's the typical operating system on most computers that you find in the MENA.
@@BenWillock nah if you look closer the full name is Muhammad sadeem (obviously not mjd's name)
Just noticed you've reached half a million of subscribers! Congrats! Well deserved!
We deserve a windows 7 celebration house party?
@@YuNherd yes
what the fuck? i thought he was in the millions already
@@picclejar yeah me too, i mean his been around longer than game theory
Congrats on 500K!
THIS is a true MJD video guys , where everything was going wrong but goes right after a lot of troubleshooting. Yeah!
Except for the one thing we all got used to
Tbh, Windows XP Gold Edition was just thinking ahead because this is what Windows 11 is like now in terms of bloat.
I have 2 Windows 11 machines that have no bloat at all.
"I haven't personally used windows 11 but I'm gonna make shit up about it because I don't like change"
the windows 11 warriors have arrived
@@Flufferpup HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
@@vampvhs I Like Windows 11 but it would be great a way to delete all the bloatware ( Telemetry, Copilot, etc ) and just leave Windows 11 in the basic ( Like Windows XP that doesnt have any bloatware ) and Just keep the asthetic of course and stuff to Make work the Store and Game Pass, the rest is a lot of crap that just consume resource just for do it, and its kind of an issue because you´re a guy who makes a tutorial deleting even the goddamit sounds and get rid of it by a premade cmd or you make a weird alternative version of Windows 11 whit more bloatware but this time is not for Microsoft and its hell of unstable and unsafe, There is no or at least i didnt find it a point to clean enough Windows 11 but without rip it all apart
"But everything goes wrong" Classic Michael MJD content that we love. I can always picture myself in your shoes in these videos.
Replacing files with copies from a standard copy of Windows XP, that brings up the ship of thesies. There's a point where that installation stops being that installation as the individual files are replaced.
I think as long as he kept the integral files (not bootscreens bug the others in system32 that literally form the OS), he’s fine. He kept the hull and materials, but repainted it and fixed up holes.
he sets the challange for himself it is up to him what is fair in the end it is all for entertainment value there is no purpose
In the U.K. we’d call it Trigger’s Broom. Trigger had the same broom for years and only changed the head and handle a few times….
Theseus
i think the whole point was just not to outright format the disk and reinstall windows. anything else is fair game.
not me yelling at the screen for Michael to click on uninstall.exe to get rid of internet download manager, lol
YES
or for everything, should have tried that first before just deleting the folder
SAME, it was right there!
34:00 The *icon cache* says hi.
PS: C:\Documents and Settings\Default User
goddamit dominic, wanted to say that lol
I was hoping he'd figure that out, but I guess it didn't matter much since creating the new user account got him a fresh cache.
I remember first seeing XP Gold Edition on a stream by Rogueamp and he called Muhammed Sadeem as his number was in the installer. Just turned out that in Pakistan at the time it was like 3AM lol.
I had the exact same thought as soon as I saw the thumbnail, what a legendary stream
I also remember Dream Installer 2015 that plays some ultra spooky music at all times, good times. The two imo go together like bread and butter.
is this video online?
@@shortcat It is, on Rogueamp's channel in the Live tab
the icons of the stuff that didn't change even if you modified it to change is due to the fact there's an icon cache. you need to clean it and every icon should be re-read from where it should
no thats not the anwser, the icons didnt change because original icons got overwritten in shell32.dll or shell.dll i dont remember
@Nieczytelny_official when he created a new user and logged in as that, the icons were fine. it's the icon cache!
@@DJ_KAZILdid you watch the video? He replaced shell32.dll
@@DJ_KAZIL He copied shell32 and shell from the clean version too, it was definitely the icon cache
@@DJ_KAZIL He did end up replacing the icon stuff (see 21:45 for the cache issue)
bloatware? wdym??? we obviously need subway surfers on our windows xp gold edition released after windows 10
Like lowk tho I fw that
0:58 PHEW I THOUGHT THERE WAS A SPONSER WHEN HE SAID "BEFORE WE GET STARTED ON THE VIDEO IM GONNA WALK YOU THROUGH"
thank god
you really should be using sponsor block lol
@@squabbledOwO Oh my god thank you so much didint even know this extension existed this is a godsend. Thank you!!
@@squabbledOwO sponsorships are so annoying
@@pythoneerssADOFAI not for me tho, man's gotta eat
This almost felt like one of those Art restauration videos.
Debloating Windows 11 into clean Install of Windows 10
lol
Iirc somebody deleted the system's UI files and the whole thing just became windows 10
It's like the ending of every scooby doo episode where the criminal gets unmasked lmao
Impossible.
@Squidgey2010 Windows 11 and Windows 10 both share the same NT version, it's possible
I honestly think all these "bundled/bloated" Windows Builds are good challenges for technically adept people. It puts your knowledge of Windows to the test.
Instead of manually copying the system files over, you can do a System File Check (SFC) command and reference an external file source to verify against, and let Windows scan for and fix any non-standard files. There's a few tricks/methods, but the proper way I think is to boot into the Windows installer DVD/ISO Pre-install environment (PE) and run SFC from a command prompt there, since I dont think XP had a real recovery environment built-in like more modern Windows do. You can make custom windows boot disks with just the PE environment too, I haven't played with that in ages though and can't remember all the details.
Love how all the themes are named after some type of gold and then there's one called spiderman
this would do for a good speedrun category
very nice video michael here are some notes from my experience of debloating windows xp:
if you install the sp3 update it will restore some of the stock files like the boot screen and logon screen and other system files, it is much faster and safer
some you have to manually replace
for ntoskrnl file it has to be the same exact version number otherwise it will result in a bootloop,
as for the default user pictures they are located in "document and settings/all users/application data/microsoft/user account pictures" make sure you check show hidden files option from folder options,
and finally to solve the issue when creating new accounts it will apply the classic theme and vista sounds :from hirens boot cd you have to copy ntuser.dat and ntuser.ini files from default user folder from another clean installation to defaultuser folder on the machine that is being debloated
13:41
Michael was asking himself why the pointer began moving all of a sudden.
I believe it decided to go for a small walk.
it was lunchtime for the mouse
It walked to the lemonade, stand
@@AtrixRBX ok i'm standing now what
It was going to LOCK THE TASK BAR
@@AtrixRBX and it said to the man, running the stand. "Hey!"
The most interesting xp video that i has been ever seen. Anyway great video. And congrats for 500k subscribers
The hardest task for any computer is to debloat it completely, and I’m surprised you managed to pull that off. Congrats for 500K subs!
This is great to restoring most of the original OS functionality, but it's far from an actual clean install as there's thousands of leftover files, dlls, registry entries, configuration files, etc.
Still, I'm very impressed by the result.
I don’t want your videos often anymore, but they’re still fun to play sometimes. Good work! And also, Merry Christmas!
It's less the "hitting the fan" and more the "clean up" that I find enjoyable. It's the struggle and the hope for and sharing in the success and also sharing in the failures sometimes. Idk. it's fun.
congrats on 500k micheal jordan
love how michael mjd just doesn't go into all leftover program files folders to see if they have an uninstall program and immediately goes to deleting them all
I like how you manually sorted through the files for a task that most people would have done by simply reinstalling Windows. Good vid.
Ah, memories. Bricked my first PC as a kid f-ing around with XP theme packs and stuff. Didn't get another one for 5 years. Good times.
Congrats on 500k dude
Just create a new user account, and then insert an official Windows XP disc, and do a repair upgrade. It worked for me undoing changes to this very same bootleg.
Congrats on 500k🎉 I’ve been here since 300k and your vids are amazing
That's cool! I may have a suggestion. Why not take an unofficial Windows 7 like Windows 7 Angry Birds and transform it into a clean install of 7?
I know it sounds stupid but it's worth a try. Right?
That's the same thing that he did in this video, except on an older version of Windows
@@cookiehead.You realize windows 7 is NEWER than XP, right?
@@cookiehead. That was XP. But I agree
@@cookiehead. you think Windows 7 is older than XP? 🤨
18:52 Brother that bootleg XP is blessed by God himself that it had the words "In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful" in the booting screen
Nice job with 500K! Been here since 130K and you’ve come so far!
Man, I used to see this damn thing a lot back when I was still doing PC repair for random customers. I'd never have taken the time to undo all of this, but bravo doing so! I'd still just assume it was compromised to hell and back though (not that one should be putting a WinXP machine anywhere near the open Internet but you get what I mean I'm sure.)
Great vid!
You could have saved a lot of time if you did the following:
1) Boot from an installation media of Windows XP that matches the edition
2) Go through the regular install process, but STOP when it finishes searching for existing Windows installations
3) Highlight the correct XP installation and press R to repair, which will delete modified files and copy original files from the installation media
that would be against the spirit of the video i feel, the idea was to try to clean it by hand as much as possible (although copying system files from a boot media is kind of the same)
But that's no fun!
What an interesting-sounding video! I can’t wait to watch it!
Ah yes. Could also have done a fresh install of normal XP. Very fun challenge and makes for a fun video.
@@Zanpaait's different from a fresh install as it doesn't remove settings or installed programs, it only does stuff with system files
LETS GOOO my favorite UA-camr EVER did another video on Gold Edition XP.
I still have a copy on a VM because of your original video. I still play with it from time to time.
Congrats on 500K Subs Michael!
The topmost pity is that the boot screen was never restored. But thanks Michael you led me know this Windows XP modification that I've gonna trying it right now!
I think the boot screen is logo.sys?
12:55 the "config" folder contains the registry. I would assume that if you skipped that folder, it would fix the BSOD issue. As for the DLLs, it's possible that they patched some of them to bypass activation, and copying new ones simply reverts that. Copying ones from the RTM release of XP might yield a better success.
7B - invalid disk controller settings. He could run it if he would use fix_hdc from Hirens.
@@tennickjestzajety69 No, 7B is inaccessible boot device. Normally this would be disk controller drivers but this isn't normal. If you swap the registry it will be looking for the drive of the source system which isn't even connected (and beyond that there will most likely be many other things broken).
@@eDoc2020 yes and no - inaccessible boot device due to invalid disk controller settings. Invalid does not mean broken, rather (in this situation) set to a different controller that uses a different driver and service. If you use a generic SATA driver (e.g. GenAHCI) or standard IDE driver, the OS will find its "source" and boot correctly.
@@tennickjestzajety69 How will it ever find its source if it's literally not connected?
Let's say the original partition has identifier 385 and the registry says drive C: has ID 385. If the drivers are okay it will work. If you copy a registry that says the C: drive is 983 it won't work because that partition doesn't exist.
Fun fact, M Sadeem is (or was) someone from Bangladesh who made the best lite version of Win-XP back in 2007-2008
Grats on 500k subs, MJD, you deserve it :)
Congrats on half a million! 🎉
Congrats on 500k! 🎉🎉🎉
This is a very 'Ship of Theseus' experiment. Is it really still the same OS if replace every file that keeps it running? Food for thought. Cool video
Hello ManagablePantaloons.
@@white_suit_nickironswordfa208
what
@Bennett.R martincitopants but intellectual
@@white_suit_nickironswordfa208 It was admittedly totally lost on me until you said a name. Not familiar with this guy, but I see we have the matching profile picture going on
@@Bennett.R He's pretty funny in my opinion, you should give him a watch.
The bloatware part looks like a fresh windows 11 install btw
Realest thing I've read all day
REAL
@@micaelcarlos6534 I use Windows 7 and Debian XFCE btw
fr
No, but I can’t imagine that being much worse.
That's like those carpet cleaning videos, you get a really dirty carpet and turn it into a work of art once again later!
The 0x0000007B BSOD you got is generally caused by an inaccessible boot partition. Windows is very picky about the way it accesses storage devices, and if you change that method without changing other settings that tell Windows to use that new different access method, it will flip out and BSOD.
Two common ways this can happen are you can change the storage controller mode from IDE to AHCI or vice versa. Or, you mirrored an IDE drive to a SATA drive and the SATA drive controller is in AHCI/RAID mode.
Another way it can happen is if the storage controller driver is changed improperly or the files for the driver are clobbered, which probably happened when you overwrote all of system32.
dont think ive watched this channel before
i love the floppy wall in the background i kinda wanna do something like that
WOOOO 500K! 👏🏻
Yay, another MJD Video. also congrats on half a million subscribers. love your content, it's really interesting. :)
The guys who are making XP Gold 2016 must have really drilled into the original Windows OS and also changed it so that attempts to change it from the outside are blocked. You should only use your own bootleg and nobody else's - you can see what comes out of it. I also changed my Windows 10 with Classic Shell but only the start menu, installed the Windows XP icons and retired those of Windows 10, installed the Windows XP task manager and the classic system configuration. Finally, I installed RetroBar. This is a small program that overlays the taskbars from old Windows versions onto those of Windows 10 and 11. RetroBar is not very well known, but I am proud that it comes from German developers. If you have time, you can make a short video about RetroBar.
this video feels like a fever dream, seemingly familiar and odd at the same time
somewhere sometime some dude is gonna have the WEIRDEST problem and be so thankful you exist
0x7B stands for INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE.
When you replaced everything in the system32 folder, you also overwrote the registry stored in system32/config so all the values that it expected to boot were likely set wrong as a result. Did you use a different computer with a different chipset or a different hard drive emulation mode ?
Hiren's boot actually has a built-in fix for that. Don't recall where but there's definitely one of the tools that's labeled for this specific blue screen. I had to use it a couple times when swapping hard drive from one computer to another back in the days.
Doubt this would have solved the other activation problem tho.
One of the things in the registry is the drive letter assignments. If you swap the registry it will be looking for the drive the registry was copied out of and will fail even if all the drivers are working.
Nice video, crazy work, but satisfying watch. Thanks for your great effort
Ahhh yes, this kind of reminds me of a time when I was cleaning off the old phone server at work because we were giving it to a non profit to use and we were upgrading to a new system. All I had to do was clean off anything related to the company WITHOUT wiping the drive and starting over. That was a fun job, but very tedious.
This reminds me of the Wild Wild West days of working IT 20 years ago, before stuff was locked down. Folks would complain their computers were slow and it would be caked with malware, cracked games, third-party apps, and crappy themes they tried to install.
@@HellScream107 All that is still possible. I've trashed Windows 10 installs
@@Qwertypigeon853 Def True, but I was referring to corporate environments, where workstations are now locked down with group policies, admin access is limited, and known seedy websites are blocked by firewalls. I rarely see a malware-infected workstation these days at work, which is a good thing :)
generally cracked games are clean unless you dont know where to get them.
@@YeanYean1993 Very true. Also Windows includes Defender or you install a third leg so it's unlike to get any maleware from cracked sodtware, games or apps
Not much left in the video but I just can't wait those extra minutes to see if he figured it out...
The that ntkernal thing is machine specific. It will only load windows if it matches certain things exactly during the initial load up. With that said, back in the middle school and high school days, there was a tool you used to directly modify this file to change the boot animation to anything you want. It would also change the themes, login screen, sounds, and alot of other things. We used it allll the time to prank our teachers by making their computer boot up be something silly. Was loads of fun and happily enough, our school IT and staff in general actually didn't care. Some even encouraged it because it allowed alot of us to learn more about computers. Pretty sure this positivity during my school time is one of the bigger factors to why alot of my graduating class ended up going into alot of IT fields lol.
This is one case where re-enabling windows file protection and running sfc will have done the majority of the job...
Wait, SFC Scannow actually working? That never happens!
I LOVE the floppy disk wall it’s so cool :)
Huh, I didn't think you could "De-Bootleg" a phony version of XP! That's intresting!
8:34 - That software is actually part of a Windows XP update to allow XP users to decrypt BitLocker To Go on removable drives in case someone performed a BL encryption on Vista and newer
it was a perticular windows update but was not actually originally part of windows xp.
I am sure that the blue xp theme was the luna theme.I know that if you wanna set the luna theme in retrobar it says win xp blue so the people who created xp gold could rename the luna theme to blue xp.
Michael. Is that 500K I see. It is! Nice job on this milestone!
Yooooo 500k congrats michael🎉🎉🎉🎉❤
(First Modify the shell32.dll and imagres.dll) To change the icons you have to delete the current user and create a new one and the icons and other stuff will get reset
Unless they modified the default user which is a template copied every time a new user is made
Yes i know but i forgot to edit the comment
You could also just delete the icon cache
Congrats on 500k subs, michael! I knew you could do it!
Haha thanks for going through all this trouble for us 💐 this was fun to watch
This was so intriguing! I also learned many things about how XP functions, so I'd say that was a win-win!
Also, congrats! You deserve even more subscribers than this!
My soul has been soothed. I would love for this to be a series
I love that the Task Manager badging on the lefthand side of the window is the Apple App Store icon.
Congrats on 500k subs, Michael!
As the saying goes, "when the shit hits the fan" LMAO!!!
Here's an idea for a video (if you haven't done it yet): Set up Windows XP for daily use in 2024. Is it possible? What's the best PC you can build that'll both handle modern resource demand AND have XP driver support. What software will help more with security? Just all of that jazz. I've become more curious about that after reading more into Microsoft spyware in Windows 10 & 11.
Now that you've made this vid, this reminds me, I'm pretty sure that original vid on Windows XP Gold from 8 years ago that you did is how I found and subscribed to your channel
This was a particularly entertaining video; I have no idea why. 😂 Happy Thanksgiving, MJD!
I feel like I suggested this awhile ago, glorious to see it happen xD
CONGRATS ON 500K 🎉
this is such a cool video concept, make more like these!!
Great job! Whoever suggested this idea is a genius!
Half a million subs! Congrats!
Congrats on 500k
That XP shutdown and start up sounds felt so nostalgic. Sounds from the childhood aoe2, Hercules, roadrash, dx ball, nfs, ea sports cricket.
Love your channel!
13:42 had me rolling for some reason
congrats on 500k!
What channel is way underrated deserves at least a million subs