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/".

Gallery

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  Pre-boot selector

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  Boot selector

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  Setup in the graphical phase

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  Boot screen

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  Pre-OOBE

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  Login screen

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  WPI

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  WPI while it's installing programs

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  Empty desktop

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  Start menu ("VistaMize" theme)

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  System Properties and About Windows