Windows 2000 Serena Edition

Windows 2000 Serena Edition

Crusty Windows bootleg
The desktop of Windows 2000 Serena Edition
Original OS	Windows 2000 SP4
Release date	June 30th, 2020
Author	Rottenbeard
Country of Origin	United States
Language(s)	English
Architecture(s)	x86 (32-bit)
File size	716 MB
Download link	Serena2000.iso
Date added	March 8th, 2023

Windows 2000 Serena Edition is a bootleg 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, 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.

This bootleg is best suited for VMware, particularly 10.0, which is why VMware Tools 10.0 is preinstalled on this OS.

Changes from Windows 2000 SP4

• New wallpaper, and color scheme
• Nearly 200 new wallpapers included
• 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.

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)
• Norton Ghost 2003
• VMware Tools 10.0.12

Notes

• 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.
• The start menu has been set to use small icons.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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

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  Desktop on first boot

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  Desktop

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  Start menu

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  System Properties and About Windows