Thoughts on TinyXP
I just installed TinyXP on a system I’m building for a friend, and I was amazed. I chose the “BARE” install without IE/OE/WMP, and it worked like a charm. It booted very quickly, and the ram usage was just above 70mb total!
The idea behind TinyXP is that most of the useless junk that comes with XP is stripped out, leaving only the bare essentials. This leaves you with a functional OS that’s much smaller and faster than the original bulky XP.
Sure, it’s piracy (since you’re downloading a hacked XP ISO that bypasses registration), but I actually own a legal copy of XP. That doesn’t make using TinyXP legal, but in my mind it makes it morally okay.
If you need a really light and fast OS with a tiny memory footprint that won’t get in your way, I highly recommend TinyXP.
Posted by probabilityZero on June 9, 2008 | Filed under: Tech and games
lol piracy
Yes, TinyXP is great! But make sure you use the latest — at this point it is TinyXP rev09. It was made from native XP SP3, so it has all the latest fixes. Earlier versions, while great at the time, are now outdated.
Also, the make who goes by the name “eXPerience” gives several options to install — with IE or without, with updated driver packs or without… Very interesting work.
Chazz: The link in the post above is to the revision 9 release by eXPerience. But thanks for the useless info anyway!
Guys.. I need some help. I download a compressed file which is supposed to be Tiny XP Rev 9. After I extract it, How exactly am I supposed to burn in to a disk ?
Burn the ISO (preferably at a low speed), then boot from it.
I’m running outta discs here. I tried like 10 times to burn this to a disc. I downloaded rev09 and it was already an ISO file. So I tried just burning it do a disc, then tried burning it as a bootable disc (meanwhile this is in NTI CD & DVD MAKER), It then says “preparing to start your computer. then some normal stuff then it says mouse driver installed successfully
A:\>
And it completely stops there. Then I tried NERO 6 then 7 then infrarecorder and these ones only let me save the ISO file and wouldn’t let me burn anything. Is there something I’m missing? Have I got the wrong file? BTW when I unpacked the ISO file it was a 3.2GB file and so I burnt it and it come up saying that it was a non bootable disc.
You aren’t supposed to extract the ISO. It’s a cd image that you’re supposed to burn. In Nero (or whatever program you use) you select “open image” or whatever and find the ISO you downloaded.