Version 2.0 (Major Release Milestone!)

[AFellowSpeedrunner]

Major Release 2.0!

This is a milestone for this project! Never thought I'd see a 2.0 of this! All of this couldn't of been done without the help of @yum13241! Thank you so SO much for all of your help!

Now, this project was originally wasn't going to end up as a project. This was just the result of me getting a hold of nLite, and just messing around with it. I originally wanted to see what would happen. What resulted from that? SmolXP did.

May I mention that this build FINALLY has a x64 release too! Yes, for the people that want to run this on their god tier PC (Even though you probably can't, but it's worth a try.) while being able to utilise all of their memory and not just under 3GB, now they can!

This release was remastered with a completely new ISO from Enderman's site! (Yes, the same Enderman who made the Windows 11 on a Pentium 4 video and other great masterpieces. Shout out to him for having like every version of Windows ever available to download and for making great videos.) Apparently, the ISO I was using before wasn't perfect and was a bit broken.

Here is a new section, what was added?

Added things

Generic networking drivers!
Full theming support, Luna is back and unsigned themes can be added!
SFC is now disabled!
This only increases the ISO size by 9MB, astonishing!

Removed things

WPADISABLE.bat is no longer copied to the desktop but is still on the ISO.

Please keep in mind that the x64 version is much bigger at 198MB. This is due to the fact that it supports both 32-bit and 64-bit apps too and that the code is made for x64 machines requiring more code to handle more resources and stuff properly.

When I started this, I didn't know there was something like this. Apparently LiteXP exists, but this is smaller than it! Even x64 is smaller than LiteXP!

VBox Guest Editions will NOT WORK on SmolXP x64. It apparently removes features more than it should add them. I don't think this is a bug with SmolXP x64 but rather Windows XP x64 itself, so it won't recognised as a proper bug and will not be fixed.

Issues fixed

First, the ISO as it was apparently a bit corrupted after trying to load it in a different program. @yum13241 had pointed out that Windows XP ISO's downloaded from the Internet Archive have more data than they should after the main data ends while the ones from Enderman's Site doesn't have that issue meaning we are finally using standard ISO's.

Issues not fixed

None!

This should hopefully really be the last build. Again, I thank @yum13241 for everything he has done with this project. I am happy he helped me and got the project to 2.0. Couldn't of done it without you.

I also think I've never written this much for a GitHub release, this is a lot of text.

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