gilmae is going to kill me, but I finally managed to find a working copy of the 4008 build of Microsoft’s XP replacement, codenamed, ‘Longhorn’. The install from within XP Pro was actually quite painless. The ‘upgrade’ option during the install was greyed out, with a little note saying that you need Build 4000 or above to get that going, but when I ran the full install it seemed to just be an upgrade anyway.

A few things are broken here. Norton AV 2002 doesn’t seem to want to work or install. CuteFTP Pro 3.0 had a fit when I tried to run it, but I haven’t tried to reinstall it yet. The bundled IE is actually IE 6.05 which does not seem to like ‘Alt’ tags.. at all. But still.. no real issues.

I’ll be posting updates to a thread over at kozaru.net with screenshots which I’ll probably link to from here as well.

I like it.

Still no automatic refresh-rate fix though

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