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.
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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 Earlier versions, while great at the time, are now outdated.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.
Wow, this ISO helped me breathe new life into my old computer! I’m gonna install it on my laptop today.
Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 3, with all the hotfixes installed is only under 600 MB and using only 75 megs of RAM? To hell with Internet Explorer and Outlook Express; Firefox and Thunderbird are the future! TinyXP is better than any other OS out there!
How exactly can you burn this to a cd ? I have PowerISO and Nero. I have tried countless times and when it tries setting up files are missing ?
Set it to burn at a slow speed. If that doesn’t work, download the ISO again.
whoever asked how to burn iso should not be allowed near computers
))…jk
use nero, deepburner, roxio, xpcdburner
ps – extract iso to scan for viruses. i use avg.
Yes TinyXP is the best choice for installing a lite version of XP. I use it as a virtual drive for creating Thinapp applications.
“ps – extract iso to scan for viruses. i use avg.”
.. why ? There is no fucking viruses in there. Only false-positives. (http://www.viruslist.com/en/glossary?glossid=153654932)
eXPerience for president!
How do u burn a cd and make it bootable on nero 7
Okay. So I get the ISO stuff and all, but how do I then boot from the CD? If I have the disc with the TinyXP .iso image on it how do I install that on a partition of my PC’s drive? Is there some simple way to boot from a disc?
I recently installed this on my old P3, it fully boots in under a minute! Sure, I can’t really multitask but it’s great if you only want to browse the internet or use it a a fileserver.
yup TinyXP is indeed a nice “lite” version of windows XP!
Download IMGburn (free), it lets you burn the image at very low speed (1x) so that their will be no errors during the burn process.
I’ve been testing microXP and tinyXP for a while now and realy love them.
I also recommend: tinyVISTA and morphOS
all i can say is ENJOY !
i can’t find where to get help with this problem. sorry if this is the wrong place, please point me in the right direction.
i set the bios to boot from the tinyxp disc. it goes through the motions, gets to the end, tells me it the computer will restart. it restarts, but then starts the prcess again. if i then reset the bios to load the hd, it hasn’t worked. if that makes any sense, please help.
Anonymous:
You aren’t supposed to boot from the CD after the first time. Let it boot from the hard drive and the install should continue.
Thankyou for that.
The problem is that it then says “ntldr is missing”, and i think this may mean the hd is broke. ah well. time to try linux?
ntldr is missing??? did you format the hard drive first??
have had that problem many times with standard xp, will soon download tiny xp, waiting for end of internet plan (monthly rollover)
even have the tinyxp.iso file but when i (juz for the sake of opening it) open it , it opens in winzip….and even has an icon of the zip file….i wonder whether do we have to extract te so called .iso actually a zip file and then burn it as a bootable disc or do i directly burn it as a bootable disc??
plz reply have downloaded over 10 types of them and alll of them have the iso zip funda!
@rahul Burn the ISO with a program like ImgBurn. Winzip just wants to open everything. Ignore it.