Windows XP Starter: Installation & Demo
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2015
- So, you've probably heard of Windows 7 Starter, which was the low end and limited version of Windows 7. But did you know that Microsoft did the exact same thing almost 5 years before with Windows XP Starter? This video takes you through this very interesting and unique version of Windows, and shows off the things that made this different from the standard Windows XP release.
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Notable Limitations:
Only 3 programs could be run at once, each allowed to have 3 separate windows (Total of 9 windows allowed on screen at once)
Maximum resolution is said to be 1024x768 (although in the VM I was able to go beyond 1080p)
Limited to 512MB of RAM
Limited to 120GB Hard Drive
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I remember this being sold in my country with some cheap computers, most people who used it just installed a pirated copy of XP Professional anyways becase you can barely do stuff with XP Starter.
Yeah because the limitations incentivises piracy because of the silly and unnecessary limitations.
oh boy, back in the days everyone pirated windows. My dad still has a burned cd with a pirated copy of windows 98
Same For Me
Everyone Just Pirate it
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Here is something like that, we have only one difference... No one care when XP Starter launched, we just still using pirate copy's of Professional Edition
@@tazz1911er bro can you please give me a Windows XP at upgrade product key I cannot find anything anywhere they all say incorrect product key and I'm trying to get past it on a virtual machine cuz I want to go from me to XP
Petition to put this on the $5 Windows 98 PC. It's the perfect specs for it.
this would be a good idea but then again it can still run normal xp fine.
@@nothingclick2786 You aren't wrong
There are some certain reasons for this special settings. As I started to teach my grandparents how to use computers(2006), they were quite confused when too many windows were opened. And extra size of cursors and icons do help the older people. After one year they were used to all the things with computers and I installed a full size windows for them.
The cursor is large because this edition was not only intended for third/second-world countries, it was also available pre-installed on notebooks in first-world countries. So the large cursor was to make it easier to see on notebooks.
I've heard that there's a new version of Windows 10 called Windows 10 S. Is it a low-end version of Windows 10, just like this version of the Windows XP, Vista and 7 operating systems?
+CEO100able Windows 10 S is a little different than these Starter versions. It's very similar to Windows RT, in that you can only run applications in the Windows Store. So you couldn't, for example, download the full version of Firefox or Microsoft Office, unless you pay $50 to upgrade to Windows 10 Pro.
Wow, that's strange. I was just wondering if Windows 10 S was designed for the same exact purposes as Windows XP, Vista and 7 Starter Edition. Thanks!
now u can, in 2018, go back to windows home without s mode for free
Windows 10S was intended for schools and workplaces (where you don't want users to be installing software that could potentially damage a computer) in that you can't install non-web based applications, I believe.
@@MichaelMJD Can't you just go in the Settings/Update and Security/For Developers and set the dev functions to Sideload Apps?
You’re looking for reasons for the limitations that help the user. They have certainly just done it to prevent people from buying the Starter Edition over the Home and Pro version and decreasing their perceived value.
The screen resolution restriction was removed in SP3. If you had installed the SP2 version it would have been fixed at 1024x768
Believe it or not, I actually have a genuine copy of the Malaysian Windows XP Starter, it's the only windows that would ever have a Malay language, I guess.
well... did you buy it?
Lmao clone the CD and sell it to them.
wait,this from malaysia right?
@Beatason how much would you pay for a copy of a proper win xp??? ...must it be in Malaysian? :p
Malaysian still using windows xp
I have never even heard of this, i thought Vista and 7 were the only versions to feature a Starter Version. Nice video!
*YET IT STILL MANAGES TO BE BETTER THAN CHROME OS*
You abused Google though
Would that really be so difficult though?
I AM WATCHING THIS ON CHROME OS AND IT IS GREAT!
@@nikolaislater705 my school uses chrome os
i hate that school when it comes to tech now
Chrome os is good for web browsing, xp is for win32
I remember they used to sell notebooks with Windows XP Starter even in Walmart stores (here 🇧🇷 they were called BIG back then) and I’m 100% sure that version of Windows ended up being used as strategy by manufacturers to make more profit over less informed users. About legit copies, I only see them in enterprises, at my job the server room has over 10 boxes of Windows XP for example, while home users are most likely to have a 🏴☠️ copy and they probably don’t even know or either care about that anyways so... That strategy had everything to go wrong, they had to pay workers to take an existing version of Windows and put these limitations and removing features while they could just offer an existing version for a price more people would be willing to pay for. Another factor is that regular people don’t buy OSs and install themselves, they pay someone who knows how to do it, they buy machines that already come with Windows installed, so computer manufacturers probably saw Starter as an opportunity to make more money offering a machine with Windows Starter for the same price as one with a normal version... 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
This reminds me of an unactivated Windows 10 copy, like the watermark. Was MS inspired by this?
Download link is now live!
Justin Knight I explained why I'm staying away from that in the video :)
I can't find an xp iso can u help???
+Nathaniel Knight thanks buddy da best
thanks
mjd7999 Why aint this not hosted in : WinWorldPC?? it would just be *better looking*
Can you open task manager and/or cmd if you reached three window limit?
Nope :/
Here in Brasil we had a version with the normal Xp taskbar and a limit of 4 programs running at the same time.
Maybe it was SP3, I'm not sure but I think that one may have removed a limitation or two from the previous service pack versions.
Great video, thanks so much, I was looking for the download link to give it a try, I was not able to find it on the description, thanks
I never had any reason to care about the Windows XP Starter Edition, but I was one of the first to use Windows XP Professional x64 Edition on my then-new AMD Athlon64 Dual Core system. That was a version of Windows XP that was also rare. Many people believe, that Windows wasn't available in 64bit versions until the release of Vista or 7. That is because many manufacturers shipped their 64bit-capable machines with 32bit versions of Windows XP for quite a long time. Some because they didn't have stable 64bit drivers yet, even more because of licensing costs - there was no 64bit Home Edition.
While Windows Server 2003 32bit was an enhancement of Windows XP 32bit, Windows XP Pro 64bit was a step-down from the even newer Windows Server 2003 64bit system. And I must say, it was quite good!
Only hiccup was that some programs demanded Windows XP SP3 to be installed before they could be installed and run officially. However, there is no such thing as SP3 for the 64bit edition, since the whole system is approx. one service pack newer by default and there is only SP2, not SP3, while SP2 has everything that SP3 had on 32bit systems. The software installers were just too stupid to tell the difference betwenn the systems.
@Samuel Giam You are referring to Windows XP 64bit Edition, I am referring to the x64 64bit Edition. The first was for Itanium and had very little success (like the whole Itanium platform), the second was for the AMD 64bit x86 Extensions, for the 64bit systems we all know today. The first architecture was IA-64 (completely incompatible with x86 / IA-32), the second was x86-64, also known als AMD64 or EM64T (Intel) and is still downward compatible with 32bit x86 code.
I still don't get why you can't change the wallpaper in Windows 7 starter.
***** I know, but I think it's a stupid limitation.
It's an external program.
NEX H5 you can by changing a file in system32, but you will need a second os capable of ntfs
Microsoft still does the same for Windows 10. If your copy of 10 is not activated you can't customize it. Those limitations make it feel more like a "Windows Trial Edition" rather than a Windows basic version.
nope not really, there is a loophole in Win10 even down to Win7, just right click on the image and set it as your wallpaper. voila
I didn't know there was a XP starter edition until a few days ago, haha. I had a netbook that had Windows 7 starter and it bugged me that you couldn't change the background. But there was a easy fix for that. I wonder if anyone out there today is still using XP starter edition?
There could be some people still using it, but I imagine it would be really annoying with all the limitations haha
+mjd7999 I don't remember, did Windows 7 Starter have a window limitation too?
+Nicholas Erwin You could not change the wallpaper in 7 Starter, but there is an easy workaround. I don't think it has the window limitation.
+mjd7999 When I had this machine, I ended up installing Windows 7 on it and it ran better than the starter edition, haha. Heck, later..it ran Windows 10 just fine!
Nope windows 7 got rid of the window/program limitation luckily, but it was in vista starter. As for changing wallpapers you could in XP and Vista starter, but not 7 starter, weird. Also vista starter had completely different default wallpapers included to the other editions. 7 starter got rid of that annoying watermark too that was in XP & Vista starter.
Let's be honest, the limitations are to prevent people from importing Windows from a developing market where it's cheaper (it's standard price would make it unobtainable) into a large market like the US where the software is incredibly overpriced.
I’m watching this in 2020 lol and I’ve used XP starter in the past in a virtual machine for fun. 😂
Same
I'd love to actually get real versions of XP Starter, Vista Starter, and even a netbook 7 Starter if it wasn't so expensive.
The reason for the first two is that I already use and love those Windows systems, and I'd like to see what they'd be like for me personally with those limitations since I never do anything intensive on Windows anyway.
Windows XP Starter seems the most limited, with the resolution, the memory, and the program restrictions. But all those would be fine with me, and I might have fun trying to see if I could get around any of them with simple exploits. Plus, it might have more lightweight operating requirements, making it usable on computers / laptops that stutter with the full version.
Vista Basic would be great to try because I already have Home Basic SP2, and since Vista Basic is limited to 1 GB of RAM, which Home Basic wouldn't do so well on, it sounds like VB is MUCH less intensive and could run a lot better.
I don't use Windows 7 much (haven't for a while actually since college), but having a small netbook with a minimal version of it installed would be a fun thing to play around with.
It does not only work on a pentium III on a real computer. The official Microsoft website says it only works on AMD Sempron, AMD Duron, and Intel Celeron computers.
That sooooo reminds me of Windows Vista Starter, especially the little watermark on the bottom-right of the desktop.
The larger cursor is because this was intended to be used on low end computers and netbooks, which typically has small, low resolution screens.
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What are the minimal system requirements for Windows XP Starter?
1. virtualbox
2. virtualbox
@@floatingbeans he means ram and cpu and stuff
there are none (dun dun DUUUNNN)
Is there Windows XP Starter Edition???????? What??? Now is this the first time I learned new things about Windows XP. Thanks for this video.
+Mathias Jung glad you learned something new! Thanks for the comment
Michael MJD one question. Why can't I activate Windows XP Starter edition by Phone?
I can confirm that no one in Turkey bought windows xp license unless it came bundled with the computer they got. You would go to a computer store and they would burn a xp installation cd for you.
if you try to run it on a computer that has too much RAM, does it only use 512MB, or just refuse to boot at all?
Can you share the windows xp starter edition s wallpaper? I really liked that :)))
is the download link the one you used when it showed the desktop mjd7999
Is possible to change/install themes on this version of Windows XP?
How you use your keyboard in setup without clicking into vm?
Kinda wild to imagine this is the only good review of XP Starter, I would think it would be more popular with some vintage tech youtubers
I also know that the Getting Started videos are diffrent in Starter then Home.
Could you do a tutorial on installing Windows longhorn build 5112
the limits are there to give meaning to the "starter" edition which is to make people buy more expensive versions.
Hey Michael can you provide the download link ?
Hi Michael, talking about windows xp. Do you ever heard Winutuxu? It modified windows with Linux look. It maybe interesting if you review it...
I don't get the theme limitations of the starter versions of Windows
what the hell is the point of not allowing to change the theme if you can just download a theme installer and install whatever theme you like
Guess what ? If you use a theme installer you will still need to go to control panel and change the theme.
umm actually i want to upgrade my old pc (pentium 4_1gb ram_60 gb disk)
from windows 7 starter to windows 7 pro and i dont know if my pc will support it
did you do a vista download? if not can you do one?
Hi MJD, please may you make a Windows Codename Whistler tutorial? With like the 2000 screen at boot up?
+KellyTronz I think I've done a build like that already. It should be in the tutorials playlist on the channel.
How does this handle IE7+ tabs? Will it block a fourth tab from opening?
yes it does.
going back here, i can hear the difference in your voice
Same here, it caught me off guard actually
The pirated copy in mainland China is another story...
They have the preinstallation of Windows XP that compressed into the GHOST file for recovery. Bundled with general drivers and softwares that people use the most every day. The concept is like the OEM Recovery disks that was given by the manufacture companies. And in mainland China Windows XP has the most popularity than Windows 7, so they won't prefer the Starter Ones.
I don't like how Windows XP Starter didn't have the Luna theme, especially the Silver one, and I didn't like how there were no wallpapers in the choices.
thumbnail:windows xp starter
me:NANI!!!
I installed this on my 2004 laptop with 1.5 GB of ram and a pentuim M
Now throw it into trash
The Random No U
lol I forgot about this and I used it for like 30 minutes and got rid of it and I made this comment when I used to experiment with installing a different os
@@amin5272 Damn I wish I could use the system myself, it'd be a fun thing to play around with and even use for my primary Windows stuff since I'm far from a power user
@@Bro-cx2jc i still have the laptop it’s a ibm x41 and I ruined the keyboard (none of the keys work anymore) I still use it sometimes rarely I got the laptop a long time ago in like 2015 it is really really underpowered now and some websites take a long time to load though if you have a computer you could try experimenting with a windows xp or a Linux iso and Rufus but if you don’t have a laptop you should get one even a old think pad like this.
Can you do a video on Windows XP Media Center Edition.
Is the watermark possibly a WGA thing?
for me, it just says unsupported state (6) while logging on
LOOK AT HIS OLD SOUND IT JUST NOSTALGIC
what is that blue t icon on your taskbar?
Did you notice the screen savers? It has starter edition screen savers, interesting.
+Junior Blitz Ah, yes I forgot to mention that. I think the logo screensaver has been modified and it shows the Starter logo.
mjd7999 Yeah, they even made a flying starter edition logo screen saver, there is also instruction videos on using starter edition in the computer. Interesting for an OS that's obscure.
+Junior Blitz Yeah usually they don't spend time adding small things like screensavers to obscure releases of Windows. I found it very interesting myself.
I played with this a few years ago... it was a pain to find an ISO file.
Just like Windows 10S ....right?
Not quiet, since you can run 3rd party programs
and no luna theme for starter , for vista and 7 , no aero or changing color
Product Key?
Can you install windows xp starter on a pentium II and 64mb of ram?
Logan Jones why? And no, just no. Keep using Linux or Win 98.
Windows Vista Enterprise?
Key?
You are going to put the windows xp diamond? exists?
Can you do a video showing the default applications on a windows xp
the product key is
JWDWF-8V6YT-R98XR-3YMVQ-HBMPW
I think microsoft should have included the luna theme because it really didn't take up much more resources and with its big ass buttons and colorful ui it would have been better for blockheads who didn't know how to use a computer
I wonder if the watermark is the same as Windows 10's watermark, software-wise
I'm pretty sure that it's an image.
@@und4287 that's not what I'm asking
oh cool you use VMware,I also do have VMware with 7 virtual machines added
Where's the link down below?
I had Windows 7 Starter on a netbook, I upgraded to Pro ...
The worst thing in Windows XP Starter Edition was the limit of three programs and three windows for each program.
I've had this operating system since 2004! Its worked fine and itndoes mymprioritys
But can it run crysis
Woah, So much has changed about Micheal.
This is the first time I heard about this version of Windows XP...
where its the iso?
Maybe I'm the only one that is noticing this but your voice in this older videos is a little higher. Youre voice defenitely gotten a litle deeper and lower now
mjd7999 can you do Linux mint 17.3 Rosa
that's very funny. we all make requests
there is also a changed control+alt+del screen
I assume it’s the one in Windows 2000 and Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 🤨
@@septanesium woahhhhh i made this comment 2 years ago so long ago
Ethan S yeah
ngl the older one is slightly better than the Windows Vista/7/8/8.1/10 screen as it tells you login information but after Vista it was removed
Windows Vista starter also has a watermark
In a VM you can have more then 512MB
The water mark would cause screen burn in on crt monitors
Yes
Emin Nart Triggered apple fanboy ?
@@KhoaTran0720 Or maybe a Linux elitist.
Unsupported state (6). HELP?
Hey mjd! Is there any way to install Windows CE in Virtualbox/VMWare?
Marcus Winer I was wondering about that as well. I'll try to make a little video about that on my channel soon, I also hope the setup process is the same.
Can you do Windows 7 Starter Tutorial
+aron marshal It's a possibility :)
+mjd7999
There is a ISO on getintopc's website for windows 7 starter, never tried it but you can try! :)
This would fit Pentium III hardware as some motherboards were limited to only 512MB ram. Also they did not provide Bios support for drives over 120GB (Without adding in a new controller card.) But I consider this OS to be pointless cause I've had great success running the ordinary XP on Pentium III hardware with a 700MHz-1GHz cpu or 192MB to 512MB ram. Only 3 programs can be used at once? Screw that! What if one of the programs needed a 4th one to open in order to function? Would it crash the system or what?
You should just use Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs, it actually designed to work on older hardware and doesn't have restrictions on how many apps you can have open at once
@@andreg011 I tried it years ago, but found it misses some .dll files, so a number of games will not run, such as Empire Earth for example. I now recommend using XP SP1, it uses about the same amount of memory as Winflp (Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs) but also less memory than the later XP service packs! XP SP3 uses about 256MB of memory on idle, so just go for the earlier SP1 version, or even XP with no service packs installed. Try it, it will be faster on your system. These older versions of XP were designed to run good on the older computers that were in use at the time of their release, so it was common for people with 500MHz and slower CPUs to report good performance. This info is from the comment section on an old website I found from the early 2000's, back when XP first came out. So as long as your XP PC doesn't go online, you're good. These earlier XP versions also consume less CPU power too. Only problem is: the newer XP programs will not run because they require a later XP service pack to be installed on your system, but you're going to be installing this earlier XP release on really outdated PCs (like those under 1GHz) so it won't matter much, because these newer XP programs may not run on your system because of their heavier hardware requirements. I put XP SP1 Pro on a 450MHz Celeron, 544MB ram, 30GB HDD, 4MB graphics Gateway Solo 2550 laptop and it still runs well offline as a retro gamer machine and the XP SP1 install is over a year old.
Back then, I read that this version of Windows was created to keep piracy down, but it was a complete flop because it did the opposite. People were mad that a normal product you paid real money for was intentionally crippled, so they just kept on pirating the Professional version as usual. There was really no reason, other than to push people to buy the more expensive versions, to have so many limitations that were actually added to the software because they didn't exist in the Home version, unlike the Professional version which just added things that weren't inherently present in the Home version. Microsoft kept this trend with Windows Vista Starter and Windows 7 Starter during the time when "netbooks" were popular (mid to late 2000s), but that actually made that segment of the PC market disappear, which now has been populated by Chromebooks running Chrome OS.
Microsoft really shot themselves in the foot with that strategy, that's why there's no Windows 8 Starter. They tried doing the same with Windows 10 S but that also failed spectacularly. Nowadays Microsoft doesn't really care anymore, so you can just use Windows 10 forever without activating it with some limitations. I don't know if that trend continues with Windows 11 tho.
You use VMWare Workstation Pro? I do too!
ok
Poebat Thank you for your opinion.
i too
With the restrictions they should call it "Windows XP Terrible".
very true
Yeah. Windows XP Terrible is Windows XP Starter.
Windows 10 Cloud Build 15025: This Windows should be called Windows 10 Worst Build 15025.
Startter and "Cloud" Editions are shit,Use Full Windows 10 and Windows XP Home/Media Center/Pro edition
Yeah windows 7 starter is basically windows 7:the leftovers edition
You forgot to link the download
8:35 is Windows xp starter edition boot up
nice you have minecraft!
Interestingly the OOBE has no help prompts
Vmware dont emulate cpu, it just virtualize the real cpu, if you look the processor inside the vm it will identify you real cpu
Is it just me or did he sound different in 2015?
I will install Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3 Version 2002 CD-ROM on LG GH24NSC0 DVD-RW/DVD-RAM/CD-RW Drive for Windows XP SP3 on Corsair Obsidian 350D Series.
These artifcial limiations were probably so starter doesn't compete with other XP editions. Who's gonna stop you from just buying starter from a 3rd world country, if you want a cheaper Windows.
Just saying, but my Aunt in Thailand has a Windows 10 converteble laptop with a touchscreen and Internet access faster than at my house in the States.
Very interesting you should write a book about it
Geoffrey Stentiford wow
Serial for windows xp starter edition sp2 in spanish