Thanks for this Bink, am liking this Legacy idea

Hahahahaha, you're right defiant!

Someone who likes to complain about how a person, who uses English as a second language, spells and punctuates his sentences. I'm sure there is a name for people like you.... Pedant? .... Ahh i remember now, it's the same name for a pregnant fish. Starts with a T

 

Thanks for the info Bink, great screenshots.

I've looked at my https://licensing.microsoft.com page where it shows I have 83 Windows XP Pro licenses with SA still current.  I can download Windows XP, but where do I go to download this XP Fundamentals?

Jeremiah     

SA Windows Fundamentals LPC was the item in the drop down list.  I was looking in the W's and F's but not in the S's.

Thank you

Well....

If the "Recommended" spec for running this OS is 256MB RAM and 300Mhz, why not install Windows XP and tune+tweak it slightly... It will run fast enough and have none of these heavy restrictions that Windows Fundamentals has..

See here for more info:

http://nexle.dk/daniel/win2000-32mb/

The link is called Windows 2000 on old computers with 32MB RAM but the steps will work just as fine for Windows XP and it will even run moderatey fast!

Good luck!

Picking on the grammar is poor form. For the most part, apostrophes are required for pluralization of abbreviations for disambiguation (e.g., to distinguish between PC'S and PCS when used in a CAPITALIZED TITLE), when periods are used in the abbreviation (e.g., Ph.D.'s) or for single lowercase letters (e.g., indivisible has four i's). It's sufficiently prevalent that regional differences exist in this based on progressiveness of the local english - in College here in Alberta, we were told to ALWAYS use apostrophes. Just because Microsoft uses one way, certainly does not make it the right. As for this WinFLOP, its really nothing you can't do without nLite or XSetup, and a few minutes of tweaking.

You are spot on right there defiant. I have seen many native English speakers using that too: CD's instead of CDs etc.

just downloaded winFLP, for whatever reason, microsoft has decided to make the CD image a .img file instead of a .iso. WTF?!

regarding the "no ping" screenshot, well, I tested a copy and ping works for me just fine. (perhaps I have a different version?)

anyway, for all those command line utils you can just copy over the exe's from another computer's system32 folder. (e.g. if ping doesn't work in your version, copy C:\Windows\system32\ping.exe from some other XP install to yours)

As far as I can tell, Fundamentals is just a very nicely slimmed down version of XP-SP2. if it runs well on legacy pc's, it should run even better on top-of-the-line stuff!

WHO CAN HELP ME?

i INSTALL THE WINDOWS FUNDAMENTAL FROM WINDOWS 98 SE,AND HAVE INSTALLED NET FRAMEWORKALREADY,BUT WHEN I ENTER THE SETUP WIZZARD,AND CLICK "NEXT",IT TELLS ME THAT WINDOWS FUNDAMENAL DOESN'T SUPPORT MY OS,WHO KNOWS WHAT TO DO IF I WANT TO INSTALL WINDOWS FUNDAMENTAL?

I just tried to Install WIN FLP on my PIII Laptop, and everything goes good, until they ask me my UserName and Password, I remember choosing a password and a computer name, but now It tells me that it's no good? That I need a domain ?  I see no space for domain? and is my computer name my USER Name?

PLEASE HELP

I just tried to Install WIN FLP on my PIII , and everything goes good, until they ask me my UserName and Password, I remember choosing a password and a computer name, but now It tells me that it's no good? That I need a domain ?  I see no space for domain? and is my computer name my USER Name?

PLEASE HELP

It ( windows flp) is not a complete OS

so Installing it is  basically an experiment.

But still, not having a password and user name accepted after 3 lengthy insyall [procedures is VERY frustrating.

I have asked someone who HAS installed it how he did it

but no answer as yet.

the net settings on one setup page say "auto" if so, then it should detect the network

I have a cable connected to my router.

but the NIC card is a davicom and may not be detected easily or automatically

could this be the answer.

it seems stupit if a net connection is necessary to bring up the os,

I realize I'm a day late and dollar short, but here's my 2 bits.  Adding the "'s" would be the INcorrect way, whether its "PC's", "DVD's", and "CD's" or its "pc's", "dvd's", and "cd's".  Why?  Just think for a second or two... PC = Personal Computer DVD = Digital Video Disk and CD = Compact Disk.  How would you plurilize the last words in these acronyms? "computers" "disks" and "disks".  Wow, no apostrophe, why?  Computer's and disk's would indicate ownership, not plurality.  Apostrophes only show plurality with single lower case letters, ie: "p's", "d's", and "c's".  Regular words have an s/es at the end and acronyms simply have a lower case "s".  Therefore, the correct spelling/arrangement would be "PCs", "DVDs", and "CDs".  "pcs", "dvds", and "cds" is not correct, because in order for an acronym to be an acronym the involved letters must be uppercase, and the "s" showing plurality must be lowercase.

When logging in you need to use "administrator" as the username and the password you set during install.

So, after installing WinFLP, has anyone noticed a dramatic difference in performance to using this over XP? Just wondering if its all worth it.....

I'll play with it in VMWare Workstation first to see if all my favorite applications work under it as normal, and then I'll try it on my old Pentium III laptop and see if it works well for my real world needs.