Comments on: Tiny XP: Everything you want, you got it http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/06/25/tiny-xp-everything-you-want-you-got-it/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:40:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: whiskey http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/06/25/tiny-xp-everything-you-want-you-got-it/#comment-747949 whiskey Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:26:42 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=28757#comment-747949 If it's not Live... then forget it. If it’s not Live… then forget it.

]]> By: whiskey http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/06/25/tiny-xp-everything-you-want-you-got-it/#comment-747948 whiskey Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:25:38 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=28757#comment-747948 Reading through the description one shall note that OPTION_2 (that leaves out Messenger, IE, WMP & OE) might actually make difficult (if not impossible) to install normal "Shiny-Glossy-Eyecandy UI" apps (like some Norton Antivirus), because they usually need some IE components to display their screens... No worries there, just switch to another app that needs not this items (AVG 7.5 used to be cool like that but, alas, now 8 it's not). Sysadmins around the net know that if it's not a LiveCD (or LiveDVD) it's not much of a useful tool... Why not give try to SuperWinPE ("The super power")? It's live, it features tons of other tools... Also try Hiren's Boot CD. (That is i.e. if you find yourself locked out of any Windows XP or 2003). What's interesting though is how they managed to integrate all drivers... so a quick download to get some autopsy knowledge on how to do that could prove useful to do a better Restore CD for your PC's. Now if you want to stay on the legal side, just get yourself one of the many Linux Live CD's or DVD's (just look if they automount ntfs so you can read and/or write your important files). Want the absolute most minimalistic approach? Just get the Morphix Live Kiosk CD (it's reallly, really small) which only runs Firefox, be sure to have your USB drive conected at boot so it gets recoignized, and use the web as your OS. (Whoa, actually this gives me a reason to write another entry to my site!) Reading through the description one shall note that OPTION_2 (that leaves out Messenger, IE, WMP & OE) might actually make difficult (if not impossible) to install normal “Shiny-Glossy-Eyecandy UI” apps (like some Norton Antivirus), because they usually need some IE components to display their screens… No worries there, just switch to another app that needs not this items (AVG 7.5 used to be cool like that but, alas, now 8 it’s not).

Sysadmins around the net know that if it’s not a LiveCD (or LiveDVD) it’s not much of a useful tool… Why not give try to SuperWinPE (”The super power”)? It’s live, it features tons of other tools…

Also try Hiren’s Boot CD. (That is i.e. if you find yourself locked out of any Windows XP or 2003).

What’s interesting though is how they managed to integrate all drivers… so a quick download to get some autopsy knowledge on how to do that could prove useful to do a better Restore CD for your PC’s.

Now if you want to stay on the legal side, just get yourself one of the many Linux Live CD’s or DVD’s (just look if they automount ntfs so you can read and/or write your important files).

Want the absolute most minimalistic approach? Just get the Morphix Live Kiosk CD (it’s reallly, really small) which only runs Firefox, be sure to have your USB drive conected at boot so it gets recoignized, and use the web as your OS.

(Whoa, actually this gives me a reason to write another entry to my site!)

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