Windows The Avengers

Windows The Avengers
	Crusty Windows bootleg
	The desktop of Windows The Avengers
Original OS	Windows XP SP3
Release date	September 20, 2013
Author	Ayman Mohamed of thetwinsrab
Country	Egypt
Language(s)	English, Arabic
Architecture(s)	x86 (32-bit)
File size	658.2 MiB
Download link	WindowsTheAvengers.iso
Date added	December 12, 2021

Windows The Avengers (also known as Windows 10 The Avengers and Windows Th E Avengers) is a bootleg Windows XP SP3 edition, which was created by Ayman Mohamed of thetwinsrab. It released on September 20, 2013, and was added to the archive on December 12, 2021. It is known for having a comically bad installer and theme, and for possibly birthing various bootleg offsprings.

Description

The bootleg is a modified Windows XP SP3 ISO. As the name suggests, the OS is themed after the Marvel movie The Avengers, specifically the 2012 film. Appropriately, the OS comes with several themes based on that movie (along with some other unrelated themes). It also comes with many new programs, and wallpapers included. Various system elements have been altered to be larger and changed to have Marvel characters. It comes with its own autorun, and WPI.

The bootleg has a WPI with extra software, like many others. It is unattended, and preactivated.

Despite the fact that the OS itself is in English, several pieces of software bundled with the OS comes in Arabic.

The ISO was made using nLite 1.4.9.1, and the autorun (including WPI) was made with AutoPlay Media Studio 8.0.7.0.

Changes from Windows XP SP3

Minor changes

The text-mode setup OS text is changed
The icon size has been made larger
The Winver banner has been updated

Changes in pre-desktop procedures

New setup graphics. The Windows XP installer has been heavily modified if not entirely replaced
New pre-OOBE graphics
New login graphics. Various Marvel characters are present.

Look and feel

New default theme (really a WindowBlinds skin), wallpaper, and icon set
26 new themes included
47 new wallpapers included. The default wallpaper has been replaced with a promotional image for the Marvel movie The Avengers from 2012, slightly altered to include the author's name
New cursor set

Software

Media Player Classic 6.4.9.1
Perfect Uninstaller 6.3.3.9
Unlocker 1.8.5
Virtual Magnifying Glass 4.0

Customization Utilities

UberIcon 1.0.4
WindowBlinds 5.1 (cracked)

Additional software

Adobe Flash Player 11
CCleaner 3.04.1389
Google Chrome 28
IDM 6.17 (cracked)
QQPlayer 3.7
Skype (in Arabic, 6.5.0.158)
UltraISO 9.3.6.2750 (cracked)
WinRAR 4.20 (in Arabic, cracked)
Yahoo Messenger 11.5.0

Updates

Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable

Browser Extensions and Themes

Chrome Avengers Plus

AdBlock 2.6.4
Calculator 1.5
Facebook Album Browser 1.0.11
YouTube Options 1.8.126

Notes

Remarks

The ISO seems to have initially started development on September 5, as seen from the large chunk of updated files from the earliest time period that's not from the stock ISO. Development halted a bit on the 6th, as seen from the 2 files from that day, where THEMEUI.DLL was updated (presumably, from when the 'Patch uxtheme' option in nLite was ticked) and DEFLTWK.INF was updated (probably, related to one of the nLite options the author had modified that affected that file), but was picked up again on the 9th, as many critical system files were updated around this time. Then, followed by an 10-day period, where a grand total of 2 files (SYSDM.CPL and SHELL32.DLL) had been edited, the bootleg was finished on the 20th, as seen from the last file being modified which was WINNT.SIF.
Some other things of note: The earliest edited file that's not from the original stock ISO is "WINNTBBU.DLL" from August 16 of the same year, where the setup graphics had been modified, and the latest edited file that's not in the root of I386 is "The Avengers programs.exe" in SVCPACK of the same folder. In it, it contains the additional software package that gets extracted to the WINDOWS directory during Setup, which is accessible from the desktop on the first boot.

Bootleg quirks

"My Computer", "My Documents", and "My Network Places" have been renamed accordingly to have "Avengers" in them.
There are a few known bootlegs that are forked from this one.
Setup can take a while to install.
There is an executable file on the desktop that gives you instructions on how to use the bootleg.
When you open up the C: drive in Explorer, there is a custom background image present.