windows TinyXP advice

ashatron · 26 Oct 2009 at 01:03

Hi all,

ive read many sites with information about Windows TinyXP.
Apparently it is XP with all the crap removed and it runs very well, very lightweight.

Im just wondering if anyone knows if it is actually significantly better than XP?

Does it have all the functionality? (can i install my games and Adobe creative suite?)

Anyone tried it or know more about it?

I want to try it but thought i'd ask the experts first

thanks all

Info -
http://www.passiondownload.com/1643-windows-tinyxp-rev08-sata-support-sp3-integrated.html

Roland0 · 26 Oct 2009 at 01:08

Dont think that 100% Kosher. and "a friend" tried it and it was actually slowr than normal XP, and was mainly desighned tor netbooks and to conserve disk space. May not be the sam version tho

Roland0 · 26 Oct 2009 at 01:19

lol it would be good if it had a spell checker. HA!

MagicBoy · 26 Oct 2009 at 01:29

Annoyingly Microsoft make a stripped down version of XP for corporate users. It's catchily named "Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs".

binaryknight · 26 Oct 2009 at 01:29

tinyxp isnt legit as mentioned, you could use nlite on your legal copy though to remove the crap you dont need

ashatron · 26 Oct 2009 at 19:49

MagicBoy said:
Annoyingly Microsoft make a stripped down version of XP for corporate users. It's catchily named "Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs".

no way!
That sounds awesome, does it have all the functionality? can it run games adobe creative suite and such??

Thanks all

MagicBoy · 27 Oct 2009 at 00:57

ashatron said:
no way!
That sounds awesome, does it have all the functionality? can it run games adobe creative suite and such??

Thanks all

The clue is in the name. It's designed to turn say a typical left over Pentium MMX/Pentium II machine with 64Mb+ of RAM into the equivalent of a thin-client. It basically offers the functionality of XP Embedded on a proper PC.

The services are stripped to a sensible minimum, but add ons like .net are not supported.

As for local apps - runs Office 2003 fine in my experience (obviously not recommended on a P233 with minimal RAM!). Creative Suite might be pushing it, and I suspect multi-processing isn't supported.

Mattus · 27 Oct 2009 at 01:42

So not only are you running an OS with eight-year-old functionality, but you want to reduce it even further? On a decent system?

The mind boggles.

ashatron · 27 Oct 2009 at 20:23

Thats again all

Mattus said:
So not only are you running an OS with eight-year-old functionality, but you want to reduce it even further? On a decent system?

The mind boggles.

The mind boggles? are you from the movie 'Demolition Man'?

Eight year old functionality? yeah ill upgrade to the latest windows OS, because it has an entirely new functionality...oh no wait, it doesn't, its pretty much the same.
And that 8 year old OS is still arguably the best performing windows OS.

jellybeard999 · 27 Oct 2009 at 20:30

http://www.nliteos.com/

ashatron · 27 Oct 2009 at 20:50

jellybeard999 said:
http://www.nliteos.com/

It appears to explain all the services you can turn on or off also, thats really good

Mattus · 28 Oct 2009 at 12:47

ashatron said:
oh no wait, it doesn't, its pretty much the same.

If you consider a completely different graphics subsystem and a much more modern and useful look, completely revamped security, different audio stack, different networking, very different Windows Explorer, much better start menu and much better search to be 'pretty much the same', then, yes, it's the same.

ashatron said:
And that 8 year old OS is still arguably the best performing windows OS.

Not really. Things like enhanced search, prefetching and a better start menu make you a lot more productive. Much bigger difference than the loss of 0.5fps that you probably won't notice.

Preferring XP on new-ish hardware really makes no sense whatsoever.