ReactOS Website, if you don't know what ReactOS is look here.

So, I got ReactOS explorer to run.


and filebrowser



heck! even VirtualBox guest additions and drivers work!

notepad

Well ReactOS is built on the windows kernel after all…

290Scratcher wrote:

Well ReactOS is built on the windows kernel after all…

It might be a matter of collecting all the needed files

290Scratcher wrote:

Well ReactOS is built on the windows kernel after all…

I thought it was a rewrite

ReactOS Github wrote:

Legal notice: If you have seen proprietary Microsoft Windows source code (including but not limited to the leaked Windows NT 3.5, NT 4, 2000 source code and the Windows Research Kernel), your contribution won't be accepted because of potential copyright violation.

Why not just run ReactOS, or even better Linux?

skymover1239 wrote:

Why not just run ReactOS, or even better Linux?

This is for experimentation and fun

Full Colors!

MagicCrayon9342 wrote:

Full Colors!

This is the safe Windows XP that you can still use in 2022… kinda. Can you run a newer firefox on it, or does it just say that this version of firefox doesn't support Windows XP?

kccuber wrote:

MagicCrayon9342 wrote:

Full Colors!

This is the safe Windows XP that you can still use in 2022… kinda. Can you run a newer firefox on it, or does it just say that this version of firefox doesn't support Windows XP?

This is ReactOS 0.4 based on NT 5.2 which is Windows 2000

Near native resolution! (Closest I got was 1024x768)

better than 800x600 tho!

kccuber wrote:

This is the safe Windows XP that you can still use in 2022… kinda. Can you run a newer firefox on it, or does it just say that this version of firefox doesn't support Windows XP?

ReactOS FAQ wrote:

Why doesn't ReactOS have a modern UI?

There is no such thing as a modern UI. The UI of current Windows changes according to the whim of Microsoft. This is not the case for ReactOS.

The target for ReactOS is Windows 2003. ReactOS' default UI is based upon that which you will find in Windows 2003. At the moment there are four alternative theme choices and all are suited for desktop operation. Current Windows (10 & 11) uses a theme that is compatible with both desktop and tablet based versions of the o/s. That theme is tied to the corporate design that Microsoft is currently espousing. The themes that come with ReactOS are not tablet-based themes as ReactOS is a desktop based operating system.

There are some (perhaps naive) users that believe the UI-look-and-feel is in some way tied to the real functionality of the core o/s but that is not really the case. If you are comparing ReactOS default UI with that of current Windows you may not fully appreciate that ReactOS' UI is configurable and being FOSS will be user-customisable in a way that current Windows simply is not. Eventually it will be possible to configure ReactOS to appear any way you desire with your own 3rd party tools and themes. Simply put, if you want ReactOS to look like Windows 10 or 11 then it is entirely possible. All you need to do is find and install a suitable theme and configure it - or even create one yourself!

I have a netbook with Windows 7 and it's easy to set it so that it looks like Win2000.

Jonathan50 wrote:

kccuber wrote:

This is the safe Windows XP that you can still use in 2022… kinda. Can you run a newer firefox on it, or does it just say that this version of firefox doesn't support Windows XP?

ReactOS FAQ wrote:

Why doesn't ReactOS have a modern UI?

There is no such thing as a modern UI. The UI of current Windows changes according to the whim of Microsoft. This is not the case for ReactOS.

The target for ReactOS is Windows 2003. ReactOS' default UI is based upon that which you will find in Windows 2003. At the moment there are four alternative theme choices and all are suited for desktop operation. Current Windows (10 & 11) uses a theme that is compatible with both desktop and tablet based versions of the o/s. That theme is tied to the corporate design that Microsoft is currently espousing. The themes that come with ReactOS are not tablet-based themes as ReactOS is a desktop based operating system.

There are some (perhaps naive) users that believe the UI-look-and-feel is in some way tied to the real functionality of the core o/s but that is not really the case. If you are comparing ReactOS default UI with that of current Windows you may not fully appreciate that ReactOS' UI is configurable and being FOSS will be user-customisable in a way that current Windows simply is not. Eventually it will be possible to configure ReactOS to appear any way you desire with your own 3rd party tools and themes. Simply put, if you want ReactOS to look like Windows 10 or 11 then it is entirely possible. All you need to do is find and install a suitable theme and configure it - or even create one yourself!

I have a netbook with Windows 7 and it's easy to set it so that it looks like Win2000.

I know. I was talking about the NT 5.2 kernel.

kccuber wrote:

Jonathan50 wrote:

kccuber wrote:

This is the safe Windows XP that you can still use in 2022… kinda. Can you run a newer firefox on it, or does it just say that this version of firefox doesn't support Windows XP?

ReactOS FAQ wrote:

Why doesn't ReactOS have a modern UI?

There is no such thing as a modern UI. The UI of current Windows changes according to the whim of Microsoft. This is not the case for ReactOS.

The target for ReactOS is Windows 2003. ReactOS' default UI is based upon that which you will find in Windows 2003. At the moment there are four alternative theme choices and all are suited for desktop operation. Current Windows (10 & 11) uses a theme that is compatible with both desktop and tablet based versions of the o/s. That theme is tied to the corporate design that Microsoft is currently espousing. The themes that come with ReactOS are not tablet-based themes as ReactOS is a desktop based operating system.

There are some (perhaps naive) users that believe the UI-look-and-feel is in some way tied to the real functionality of the core o/s but that is not really the case. If you are comparing ReactOS default UI with that of current Windows you may not fully appreciate that ReactOS' UI is configurable and being FOSS will be user-customisable in a way that current Windows simply is not. Eventually it will be possible to configure ReactOS to appear any way you desire with your own 3rd party tools and themes. Simply put, if you want ReactOS to look like Windows 10 or 11 then it is entirely possible. All you need to do is find and install a suitable theme and configure it - or even create one yourself!

I have a netbook with Windows 7 and it's easy to set it so that it looks like Win2000.

I know. I was talking about the NT 5.2 kernel.

NT 5.2 = Windows 2K/2000

MagicCrayon9342 wrote:

NT 5.2 = Windows 2K/2000

Incorrect according to Wikipedia:

I mean, 5.2 is on XP Pro 64-bit soo
but ReactOS is trying to target Server 2003

Jonathan50 wrote:

I have a netbook with Windows 7 and it's easy to set it so that it looks like Win2000.

Including the icons and classic Start menu?

kccuber wrote:

MagicCrayon9342 wrote:

NT 5.2 = Windows 2K/2000

Incorrect according to Wikipedia

I can confirm that the version number of Windows XP x64 is NT 5.2.3790.