PicoXP

PicoXP
	Crusty Windows bootleg
	The desktop of PicoXP. Quite stellar to; look at, isn't it?
Original OS	Windows XP SP2
Release date	October 26, 2007
Author	pscEx
Country	Germany
Language(s)	English
Architecture(s)	x86 (32-bit)
File size	14.5 MiB
Download link	PicoXP.iso
Date added	November 23, 2022

PicoXP is a bootleg live Windows XP SP2 CD, which was created by pscEx. The earliest releases date back to October 26, 2007. This bootleg was added to the archive on November 23, 2022. It is an extremely minimal CD, only taking up about 15 MB. To be more specific, PicoXP is a WinBuilder project that can be used to generate minimal Windows XP live CDs, and this is a user build of it.

Description

The bootleg is similar to Windows PE, but with everything removed (and we do mean everything). To the point where window titles don't even display properly because there aren't any fonts! Because so many features have been stripped from the OS, only absolute core programs such as cmd, winlogon, and ntoskrnl will actually run, and pretty much all but the most simple programs will error out due to missing DLLs or API calls.

The mod is intended to be the successor/replacement of NanoXP, although the build sizes seem to be around the same.

The ISO was built using WinBuilder 0.82, a Windows boot disk builder.

Changes from Windows XP SP2

Look and feel

The removal of practically every last feature and program except for cmd, winlogon, and ntoskrnl, making it basically unusable.
Fonts appear to be completely eradicated, resulting in elusive hieroglyphics in window titles (and potentially programs, if there's even a chance of getting one that isn't cmd, ntoskrnl, or winlogon working)

Notes

The punchline

This build of PicoXP is not the original release and is actually a user build from January 13, 2020. The username in the PROJECTINFO.INI file is, verbatim, CHINA NUMBER ONE. Yes, seriously. It was also built on Windows 7.

CD contents and other info

The CD label is set to "PicoXP".

Gallery

Command Prompt