Windows XP/2003 (NT 5.2) Updated (Beta 3)

[K4sum1]

Main Info

These ISOs are released in a beta state. They mostly work, but don't have all the features I want yet, or can be buggy. For example, the USB 3 drivers aren't the best, only 2003 x86 has UDF 2.5 drivers, 2003 x86 doesn't recognize new USB devices without rebooting with stock USB drivers, RNDIS seems to not work for some reason, no integrated VC++ yet, and probably more issues or missing features.

https://archive.org/details/windows-xp-2003-updated

Mega mirror:
Windows XP x64 Updated Beta 3 24-08-14.iso
Windows XP x64 Updated Beta 3 24-08-14 Beta 2 ACPI.iso
Windows Server 2003 x64 Enterprise Updated Beta 3 24-08-14.iso
Windows Server 2003 x86 Enterprise Updated Beta 3 24-08-14.iso

These are all releases of NT 5.2 with the latest updates, patched ACPI, .NET, exFAT, UDF 2.5 (x86 only for now), universal AHCI, universal NVMe, universal eMMC (untested), universal USB 3 (might not work depending on your machine), and more.

There is also a services tweaking guide here (add link), doing this will reduce the amount of background services and improve both performance and security. (I actually was going to have it with a tweaked services config out of the box, but that caused issues. Yell at me to make a guide sometime if I still haven't gotten to it.)

Q&A

Q: Why not use XP2ESD

A: I hate myself. For real though, I don't like how it uses the 10 setup when 8.1 setup would be completely fine, if not better. I also kinda prefer the XP setup.

Q: Why are the USB 3 drivers not the best?

A: There aren't any reliable universal USB 3 drivers yet. I'm not going to integrate 50 different USB 3 drivers either. I'm waiting for the ReactOS USB 3 driver to exist.

Q: Why is UDF 2.5 support only in 2003 x86?

A: For XP/2003 x86, a Toshiba UDF 2.5 driver exists, it's in the form of a basic inf and can just be right clicked and installed. It was easy to integrate. For XP/2003 x64, all I can find is a Panasonic/Matsushita UDF 2.5 driver that you need to run an installer for, and I can't seem to find any inf in the installer files or in the Windows directory after installing. I have no idea how it gets UDF 2.5 working, and therefore I can't integrate it. If you can figure it out or make an inf, it would be appreciated.

Legal. (Please don't sue.)

The updates and integrated .NET, IE8, and more belong to Microsoft and the developers there that created them.
Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
Please don't sue me.

[K4sum1]

I'll probably release a Beta 4 sometime soon (I forgot to even edit the post to say Beta 3 lol)

The main issue is I need to find another NVMe driver. What I use right now is a backport of the Windows 7 NVMe driver I think idk. That breaks booting Windows when there's more than one NVMe drive installed. I'm also not sure if it causes other stability issues I've seen as well. I think next I'll try the OFA NVMe 1.3 backport unless I find something better later.

[Stepman123]

Hello!
Why is this option enabled? HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MountMgr "NoAutoMount"=dword:00000001
Because of this, new drives are not displayed. Although, you can use diskpart for manual mounting, but I didn’t know what to do.
Default value?

[RedBeam]

I'll probably release a Beta 4 sometime soon (I forgot to even edit the post to say Beta 3 lol)

The main issue is I need to find another NVMe driver. What I use right now is a backport of the Windows 7 NVMe driver I think idk. That breaks booting Windows when there's more than one NVMe drive installed. I'm also not sure if it causes other stability issues I've seen as well. I think next I'll try the OFA NVMe 1.3 backport unless I find something better later.

if it was needed you can use my iso of project ruby as a base as its already got integrated sata and other ssd improvements added already

[Google]

[Google]

Windows XP NVMe and USB3.0 drivers：https://files.catbox.moe/9rsitt.zip

[Google]

UDF：https://files.catbox.moe/6n5s4h.zip

[Google]

[Google]

VC++ 2019 version 14.28.29213.0 = VisualCppRedist_AIO v0.35.0 is the last version compatible with Windows XP：https://github.com/abbodi1406/vcredist/releases/tag/v0.35.0

[K4sum1]

Hello!
Why is this option enabled? HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MountMgr "NoAutoMount"=dword:00000001
Because of this, new drives are not displayed. Although, you can use diskpart for manual mounting, but I didn’t know what to do.
Default value?

I'm not sure. Maybe nLite makes the change? I'll have to look.