Windows Black Heart

Windows Black Heart
	Crusty Windows bootleg
	Why is there a dragon when it's literally named Black Heart?
Original OS	Windows XP SP2
Release date	February 14, 2008
Author	Ahmed Hamdy
Country	Egypt
Language(s)	English
Architecture(s)	x86 (32-bit)
File size	700.9 MiB
Download link	Black Heart.iso
Date added	August 9, 2022

Windows Black Heart is a bootleg Windows XP SP2 edition, which was created by Ahmed Hamdy. It released on February 14, 2008, and was added to the archive on August 9, 2022.

Description

The bootleg is a modified Windows XP SP2 ISO. It styles the OS with some hearts (hence the name), and with a Windows Vista theme. This bootleg comes with a Windows Vista looking theme and software.

It comes with a boot selector integrated. Through it, you can access various system utilities such as Partition Magic 8.0, Norton Ghost 2003, Norton Commander 5.0 and others.

It is unattended and preactivated. The ISO was made using nLite, the boot selector used was Aero Studio 2007 and the autorun was made with AutoPlay Media Studio 7.1.1000.0.

Changes from Windows XP SP2

Minor changes

The text-mode setup OS text is changed
OEM branding is included
The EULA has been edited

Changes in pre-desktop procedures

New setup graphics
New boot graphics
New pre-OOBE graphics
New login graphics

Look and feel

New default theme, and wallpaper
3 new wallpapers included
New Windows vista icon set
New (fake) Vista sound scheme
New "HighSpin2" (just the Aero cursors recolored, and made darker) cursor set
New avatar set, mostly consisting of Vista avatars

Software

Customization Utilities

LClock 1.62b
TaskSwitchXP

Screensavers

Bubbles

Updates

DirectX 9
Internet Explorer 7
Windows Media Player 11

Software on the CD

7-Zip 4.57
Adobe Flash Player
AIMP2
Ares 2.0.9
CCleaner
CPU-Z 1.43
Foxit PDF Editor 2.0
Foxit Reader 2.2
Google Talk
Internet Download Manager
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 3.7.0
Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook only)
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.11
Orbit Downloader 2.6.1
Skype 3.6
TuneUp Utilities 2008
UltraISO Premium 8.62
uTorrent 1.7.6
Win32Pad 1.5.10
Windows Live Messenger 8.5
WinRAR 3.71 beta 1
Yahoo! Messenger & Toolbar

Customization Utilities

RocketDock
VistaDriveIcon 1.3
VisualTaskTips 2.3

Notes

Bootleg quirks

There are 59 deleted wallpapers in the wallpaper's thumbnail cache (not counting one duplicate of "Black 2.jpg").
When installing programs through the WPI, you will land with a command prompt window running "cmdow.exe @ /hid", but it cannot find the file.
When in the "Windows Classic" or the "Windows XP" visual styles, the Start button has been renamed to B~H.
Some backgrounds don't work.

WINNT.SIF metadata

The full name and organization is set to "Black Heart" and "The Illusionist" respectively.
The computer name is set to "BLACK_HEART".
The default homepage has been set to "http://www.momo-systems.com/".