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Windows 2000 Serena Edition
	Crusty Windows bootleg
	The desktop of Windows 2000 Serena Edition
Original OS	Windows 2000 SP4
Release date	June 30, 2020
Author	Rottenbeard
Country	United States
Language(s)	English
Architecture(s)	x86 (32-bit)
File size	716.3 MiB
Download link	Serena2000.iso
Date added	March 8, 2023

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Latest revision as of 09:04, 3 July 2024

Windows 2000 Serena Edition is a bootleg Windows 2000 SP4 edition, which was created by Rottenbeard. It released on June 30, 2020, and was added to the archive on March 8, 2023.

Description

The bootleg is a modified Windows 2000 SP4 distribution.

It serves a similar purpose as Windows 98 Serena Edition, as it themes the OS after Serena from the Pokémon XY series, but it has a little more to it and has more effort put into it (as the bootleg was made by someone else and it is intended to be a followup to the existing Windows 98 Serena Edition to try to polish it a bit), such as having more wallpapers, doing away with excessive and unnecessary bloatware, actually bundling the Pokémon games in an emulator for easy access, and even a custom sound scheme.

It is packaged in the Norton Ghost image format, which has to be restored in the Symantec Ghost 11.5 utility which is on the CD itself.

This bootleg is best suited for VMware 10.0.

Changes from Windows 2000 SP4

Minor changes

The OS now automatically logs on, with the username "Serena".
The Start menu has been set to use Small Icons.

Look and feel

New default theme, and wallpaper
Nearly 200 new wallpapers included
The sound scheme is a mix of the two Plus! 98 "Windows 95" themes, the 256 Color and the High Color variants.
- There are also other sounds included, such as the Samsung Windows XP theme's "System Exclamation" sound which is assigned to the Exclamation event, the Windows CE "Critical" sound to the Open program event and its "Exclamation" sound to the Program error event.
- The startup and shutdown sounds are completely custom, which are the Windows 2000 Beta 3 startup and shutdown sounds but low-pitched, which features samples from DoriDori, a song from Pokemon XY which is featured as a sample song on this OS, at the end.
- Additionally, the Empty Recycle Bin and both Battery Alarm events has had the default "ding" sound assigned to them.

Software

VisualBoyAdvance 1.8.0-beta 3 (comes with 12 games, all of them being Pokémon)
Norton Ghost 2003
VMware Tools 10.0.12

Notes

Bootleg quirks

The OS now starts up in 1280x800 resolution by default.
There is a readme file on the desktop, documenting the changes made to the OS.
There are 5 files in the "My Music" directory, 4 of them being different variants of a song called "GettaBanBan", and one being "DoriDori".
In the Recent Documents history, a missing link to "Daler Mehndi - Tunak Tunak Tun" is present. Presumably, this would have been in the OS, but was cut out shortly after.
The included program Norton Ghost 2003 was a leftover from when the author was backing up the bootleg after they were finished with making the bootleg.
Amusingly, the included emulator comes with bootleg versions of the Pokémon games, such as Pokémon Chinese Emerald, Pokémon Arabic Ruby, and Pokémon Naranja, a Spanish Pokémon translation.
There are leftover save files in the included emulator, for Pokémon Crystal.
The Japanese variant of Pokémon Emerald, both regional versions of Pokémon Ruby, and Pokémon Red do not have file extensions, causing the included emulator to not recognize them at all unless they are renamed to their proper file extensions.

Gallery

Desktop on first boot
Empty desktop
Start menu
System Properties and About Windows

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-|release_date = June 30th, 2020
+|release_date = June 30, 2020
 |country = United States
 |creator = Rottenbeard
 |language = English
 |arch = x86 (32-bit)
-|size = 716 MB
+|size = 716.3 MiB
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+|download = {{link|url=https://crustywindo.ws/collection/Windows%202000/Serena2000.iso|name=Serena2000.iso}}
-|archiveadd = March 8th, 2023
+|archiveadd = March 8, 2023
 }}
+'''Windows 2000 Serena Edition''' is a bootleg [[:Category:Bootlegs based on Windows 2000|Windows 2000 SP4]] edition, which was created by Rottenbeard. It released on June 30, 2020, and was added to the archive on March 8, 2023.
-'''Windows 2000 Serena Edition''' is a bootleg [[:Category:Bootlegs based on Windows 2000|Windows 2000 SP4]] edition, which was created by Rottenbeard. It released on June 30th, 2020, and was added to the archive on March 8th, 2023.
 == Description ==
+The bootleg is a modified Windows 2000 SP4 distribution.
-The bootleg is a modified Windows 2000 SP4 distribution, which is in the same vein of purpose as [[Windows 98 Serena Edition]], as it themes the OS after Serena from the Pokemon XY series, but it has a little more to it and has more effort put into it (as the bootleg was made by someone else and it is intended to be a followup to the existing [[Windows 98 Serena Edition]] to try to polish it a bit), such as having more wallpapers, doing away with excessive and unnecessary bloatware, actually bundling the Pokemon games in an emulator for easy access, and even a custom sound scheme. It is packaged in the Norton Ghost image format, which has to be restored in the Symantec Ghost 11.5 utility which is on the CD itself.
+It serves a similar purpose as [[Windows 98 Serena Edition]], as it themes the OS after Serena from the Pokémon XY series, but it has a little more to it and has more effort put into it (as the bootleg was made by someone else and it is intended to be a followup to the existing [[Windows 98 Serena Edition]] to try to polish it a bit), such as having more wallpapers, doing away with excessive and unnecessary bloatware, actually bundling the Pokémon games in an emulator for easy access, and even a custom sound scheme.
-This bootleg is best suited for VMware, particularly 10.0, which is why VMware Tools 10.0 is preinstalled on this OS.
+It is packaged in the Norton Ghost image format, which has to be restored in the Symantec Ghost 11.5 utility which is on the CD itself.
+This bootleg is best suited for VMware 10.0.
 == Changes from Windows 2000 SP4 ==
+=== Minor changes ===
-* New wallpaper, and color scheme
+* The OS now automatically logs on, with the username "Serena".
+* The Start menu has been set to use Small Icons.
+=== Look and feel ===
+* New default theme, and wallpaper
 * Nearly 200 new wallpapers included
+* The sound scheme is a mix of the two Plus! 98 "Windows 95" themes, the 256 Color and the High Color variants.
-* The sound scheme is a mix of the two Plus! 98 "Windows 95" themes. There are also other sounds included, such as the (fake) Longhorn "System Exclamation" sound which is assigned to the Exclamation event, the Windows CE "Critical" sound assigned to the Open program event and the "Exclamation" sound assigned to the Program error event. The startup and shutdown sounds are completely custom, which are the Windows 2000 Beta 3 startup and shutdown sounds but low-pitched with an added noise at the end.
+** There are also other sounds included, such as the Samsung Windows XP theme's "System Exclamation" sound which is assigned to the Exclamation event, the Windows CE "Critical" sound to the Open program event and its "Exclamation" sound to the Program error event.
-: Additionally, the Empty Recycle Bin and both Battery Alarm events has had the default "ding" sound assigned to them.
+** The startup and shutdown sounds are completely custom, which are the Windows 2000 Beta 3 startup and shutdown sounds but low-pitched, which features samples from DoriDori, a song from Pokemon XY which is featured as a sample song on this OS, at the end.
+** Additionally, the Empty Recycle Bin and both Battery Alarm events has had the default "ding" sound assigned to them.
 == Software ==
-* VisualBoyAdvance 1.8.0-beta 3 (comes with 12 games, all of them being Pokemon)
+* VisualBoyAdvance 1.8.0-beta 3 (comes with 12 games, all of them being Pokémon)
 * Norton Ghost 2003
 * VMware Tools 10.0.12
 == Notes ==
+=== Bootleg quirks ===
-* The OS now automatically logs on, with the username "Serena".
 * The OS now starts up in 1280x800 resolution by default.
 * There is a readme file on the desktop, documenting the changes made to the OS.
+* There are 5 files in the "My Music" directory, 4 of them being different variants of a song called "GettaBanBan", and one being "DoriDori".
-* The start menu has been set to use small icons.
+* In the Recent Documents history, a missing link to "Daler Mehndi - Tunak Tunak Tun" is present. Presumably, this would have been in the OS, but was cut out shortly after.
-* There are 5 files in the "My Music" directory, 4 of them being different variants of a song called "GettaBanBan", and one being "DoriDori". On closer inspection, the latter is where the added samples in the startup and shutdown sounds come from.
+* The included program Norton Ghost 2003 was a leftover from when the author was backing up the bootleg after they were finished with making the bootleg.
-* In the Recent Documents history, a missing link to "Daler Mehndi - Tunak Tunak Tun" is present. Presumably, this would have been a feature in the OS, but was cut out shortly after.
+* Amusingly, the included emulator comes with bootleg versions of the Pokémon games, such as Pokémon Chinese Emerald, Pokémon Arabic Ruby, and Pokémon Naranja, a Spanish Pokémon translation.
-* Presumably, the included program Norton Ghost 2003 is a leftover from when the author was backing up the bootleg after they had been finished with making the bootleg.
+* There are leftover save files in the included emulator, for Pokémon Crystal.
-* Amusingly, the included emulator comes with bootleg versions of the Pokemon games, such as Pokemon Chinese Emerald, Pokemon Arabic Ruby, and Pokemon Naranja, a Spanish Pokemon translation.
+* The Japanese variant of Pokémon Emerald, both regional versions of Pokémon Ruby, and Pokémon Red do not have file extensions, causing the included emulator to not recognize them at all unless they are renamed to their proper file extensions.
-* There are leftover save files in the included emulator, for Pokemon Crystal.
-* The Japanese variant of Pokemon Emerald, both regional versions of Pokemon Ruby, and Pokemon Red do not have file extensions, causing the included emulator to not recognize them at all unless they are renamed to their proper file extensions.
 == Gallery ==
 <gallery>
 W2000_Serena_Edition_DesktopFB.png | Desktop on first boot
-W2000_Serena_Edition_Desktop.png | Desktop
+W2000_Serena_Edition_Desktop.png | Empty desktop
 W2000_Serena_Edition_StartMenu.png | Start menu
 W2000_Serena_Edition_Demo.png | System Properties and About Windows
 </gallery>
-[[Category:Bootlegs which install via backup software]]
+[[Category:Bootlegs originating from North America]]
 [[Category:Bootlegs based on Windows 2000]]
+[[Category:Bootlegs which install via backup software]]
 [[Category:Bootlegs]]