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Upon first boot, there is a "First Boot Agent" that handles all that the XP setup would normally do, including PNP and network configuration.
Tested also in VirtualBox and nmware player,it gets to blue screen with
The Installation is WIM Image based,nearly exactly the way Vista is deployed to pcs. Instead of copying files like the usual XP setup does, it copies a hard drive image of the OS to your HD. This Image can be configured with the setup assistent (which creates an xml file behind the scene), wher you can choose between a minimal, a "typical", full or custom installation.
A Custom Install lets you remove via checkboxes:
Internet Explorer 6SP1(IE 8would be much bettet though) ,DirectX9, Mediaplayer 10,Messenger 4.7.3001, the complete XPSP2 Driver.cab, all Help Files, "Local management (mmc, gpedit, secpol) and complex lannguage support BEFORE the image is copied, so these features will never reach your PC.
The Downside is: you can by no way re-install what you have not installed. In "Add/Remove Programs" there is no tab for Windows Components.So if you end with no IE6, and thus making installatin of a lot of apps that rely on MSHTML impossible by doing so, you will have to re-install the OS with the option IE included.
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When it comes to "unique Design" there is a mixed feeling:
The overall appeareance is XP with Luna theme ( enabled by default ), excluding wallpaper and screensavers. The icons are the same as XP, only the screensaver, the Aboutbox and the System-properties will tell you "windows Fundamentals for legacy PCs
The Design of the Setup process is unique in black and features a windows Logo known as the vista flag and I find it very nice and professional looking - most people will be disapointed to see the product after that nice setup is "just like XP".. a black theme like "zune style" or the embedded theme or even aero would fit the overall experience a lot better. But MS did this product to not bring eyecandy but sheer function, never forget it's for Businesses and the only official alternate to Vista Enterprise.
On new hardware it will fly, and on old hardware it does exactly what it offers:
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::I think the reason he is asking is because he is considering it for the memory/ram usage savings, for gaming. [[Special:Contributions/66.215.12.70|66.215.12.70]] ([[User talk:66.215.12.70|talk]]) 01:43, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
:::I have FLP installed on my computer, and can play new games just fine (Oblivion etc). --[[Special:Contributions/83.248.146.115|83.248.146.115]] ([[User talk:83.248.146.115|talk]]) 05:35, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
Actually having games is obselete as it targets for business and not for gamers.
==Obtaining WinFLP==
Question: how does one obtain this operating system? there seems to be no opportunity to purchase or download WFLPC anywhere.<small><span class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Magic.dominic|Magic.dominic]] ([[User talk:Magic.dominic|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Magic.dominic|contribs]]) 00:22, 3 April 2007</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned -->
:Per the article: "It is exclusively available to [[Software Assurance]] customers." I suspect we might want to make the article clearer on this point. —[[User:DragonHawk|DragonHawk]] <small>([[User talk:DragonHawk|talk]])</small> 18:19, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
:It was leaked on P2P networks three weeks after its official release. But be aware that it is illegal to get it from there.--[[User:87.122.10.198|87.122.10.198]] 08:30, 3 August 2007 (UTC)An illegal volume licensing product key is VFWGM-3GRYG-QB43V-MVP84-XB3G9.DO NOT USE THIS KEY!!!
== NULL.SYS ==
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== Hardware Requirements ==
It should be noted somewhere that while the requirements are similar to XP, WinFLP runs NOTHING like XP with the minimums met. WinFLP is at least twice as fast on the same hardware, mainly due to WinFLPs low memory usage and the fact that it is XP embedded at its core.However if you use nLite on normal xp,it might be the same or even at a faster speed.
[[Special:Contributions/99.10.16.150|99.10.16.150]] ([[User talk:99.10.16.150|talk]]) 05:38, 18 June 2008 (UTC)Matt
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== SP3 for Windows Fundamentals ==
It seems it's came out already.
Being Based on XP embedded, I have a hunch SP3 for XPe products (including WinFLP) will be released when the newest version of XPe is released "Windows Embedded Standard 2008" which hopefully will be before the end of the year. Currently Embedded Standard is in public beta testing (CTP). <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/142.68.138.131|142.68.138.131]] ([[User talk:142.68.138.131|talk]]) 02:39, 6 October 2008 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
:''' Afterwards the SP3 has been installed, once finds a folder " C:\Windows\ServicePackFiles\i386 " - inside this a lot of the missing stuff can be found''', for example MSPaint.exe,sndrec32.exe,conf.exe,wab.exe and so on.'''The executables all work, adding the SP3 versions of some standard XP applications like paint, adressbook,netmeeting,soundrecorder, screensavers.''' The exes and their *.chm files can be copied to the "program files" folder for convinience, manually making shortcuts in the startmenu and they work ( only msimn.exe which is outlook express does complain that MSOE.DLL is missing, although the dll is there/ But Outlook 2003/2007 and Windows Live Mail works on FLP ).
'''Adding these exes and dlls does not affect performance of the OS.''' It is a bit strange that these files are to be found inside the
Screenshot :[[File:http://img19.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spfiles.png]]
[[Special:Contributions/78.50.80.232|78.50.80.232]] ([[User talk:78.50.80.232|talk]]) 17:37, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
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The article also reads that WinFLP includes DirectX. Although this is true, it is a crippled version from 2005. it should be noted someplace about this, and that users are urged to upgrade to the latest stable version (currently at the time of this writing, the August 2009 release)as soon as possible.
As a longtime user of FLP, I can also safely say that there isn't much of a difference between the application support on a standard Windows XP machine as there is on WinFLP. you just need to add in the few files Microsoft took out (I.E. Null.sys, mspaint.exe, joy.cpl to name a few) and you should be alright. These can be, as has been explained in the SP3 discussion topic above, found mostly in the i386 folder in the mentioned directory after the SP3 install.
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