Windows XP: Embedded 2014

Windows XP Embedded 2014 was Microsoft's response on the end of support of Windows XP.

The OS was a full recreation of Microsoft's popular OS. It came with two main themes: Luna and Metroluna.

It came with all the classic games, a new revamped 3D Space Cadet Pinball, Purple Place and a Dos-Promt for people who like the old dos. It is wildly known to be the Windows with Thousands of themes. It is also known as Windows XP Customisable Version.

Releases
Build 1420:

It was shown off at the Microsoft Conference 2012, and was presented on YouTube.

The build looked extremely different to the final build.

The main difference was in the themes.

There were only two of them being Metro and Classic

It was a shell of the OS. and crashed multiple times during the conference.

Build 1450:

This build shaped the look of the OS.

It mainly added more themes and made the OS more appealing to the eye. Multiple bugs were squashed.

It was shown of on Twitter and Re-Posters quickly uploaded it to youtube. They even showed of a new BSOD

called the Red Screen of Death.

It was for very critial errors like system files missing or the System Operation being shut down. It looked very simmaler to the Windows Longhorn RSOD.

Build 1523:

This Build is widely know as the Bugfix update.

It fixed many bugs and made the system more user friendly. It also added a Startup sound, which was a mashup of the Windows 7 and Windows 8 unused startup sound, that can be found in the files to this day.

Build 1569:

This build added a new Registry Editor, and also removed Windows Powershell. It could be acsessed deep into the Sys32 folder. The main reason they removed Powershell is because of the lack of people using it since most people used the Command Promt instead. The New REG-EDIT application was called Registry Changer. It could to more things than the editor. Reg-edit could still be acsessed with the run command or in the Windows folder. It dident work very well because Microsoft abandoned it while making the OS, and not finishing it because of the new program.

Build 1589:

This version mainly added more themes.

It added the Longhorn, Metroclassic, Aero, Luna and Da Vinci (Da-Vinci was a modernised version of the Microsoft Plus pack.)

It also squashed many bugs and added Windows Media Player 13.0.9800.17041 and Movie Maker 16.4.3538.1909.

Windows Media Center was back in, but it was a port of the Windows 7 one.

Build 1600:

This build added a new Paint program called

Microsoft Painter.

Painter was a version of Paint that was optimised for the system. It was optimised to have themes.

For example applying the Luna Theme would give MSPAINTER the WindowsXP paint look.

You could start MSPAINTER in run, but you could also run MSPAINT with the line

microsoftpaint.exe

Build 1609:

This build mainly cleaned up some mistakes the developers made and also added some backrounds.

The default one would be the Windows XP background, but if you would apply, for example Aero it would put on the Windows Blackcomb, Vienna, Windows 7 beta fish background.

Build 1678:

This Build added the Microsoft Store, a place where you could download apps. Nothing much else to say here.. It was just an optional program while installing windows.

Build 1680:

This Version mainly added security features.

The firewall was added, being the strongest one in Microsoft history.

It also added Vivavirus, Microsoft's attempt at an Antivirus. It could be enabled and disabled.

Build 1682:

This build removed Vivavirus. It was un-reiable and dident work half the time. People tried to test viruses on VMS and Vivavirus dident block it. It only blocked some safe programs like VLC, Chrome or Steam. The shell of Vivavirus is still in the Windows folder and apparently in the Code.

Build 1721:

This build added alot.

It added a new browser called Internet. Just Internet.

It was made so Older Generations, Younger Generations and Children could all understand it. It came with Internet Explorer, and you could optinaly disable it in the Setup wizard, which was just a program wizard.

It added some new themes like:

Toothousand, Toothpaste, Grass and Sweet.

It also updated Registry Changer and MS-Painter.

Painter had new themes and a new tool.

The tool was the Smudge tool. It smudged and streched the picture. The icon was a finger, but was quickly changes

Build 1721B:

This Build changed the Icon of the finger, because it was controversial. The finger looked dis-formed and was an offence to the disabled community of Microsoft. They changed it to a Smudged image quickly after.

Build 1734:

Here, Microsoft added a Zip program.

It was called Microsoft Zip Viewer.

It was a sucsess and they kept updating it.

They also added 2 themes:

Dark and Viewer.

Viewer wasent really a theme, but an experiance. It changed the computer to the Windows 3.1 type of deal that had the Windows XP look and sound.

It also added DarkLuna which wasent really a theme, but an option when turning the Luna theme on.

Version 0.1:

This version added support for Thinkpads, and was the first beta release of the product!

It came with skype and Microsoft Outmail. It was Outlook with more support for other mails.

Build 2754:

This build officialy was the Great Theme Update.

It added alot of themes.

I will list them here:

Qing

Ancient

Ancient Egypt

Railroad

Light

Lite

Victorian

MSM

and

Forest

The smaller thing it added is StickyPad. It was a program like WordPad and NotePad but you could save the notes as Sticky Notes or change the Theme of the program. It came addition with WordPad and NotePad.

Build 2778:

This Build added Accessability options and a program called SongPad.

Songpad was additional, and you could disable it in the Setup. You could make Tunes, Songs, Music, Albums or even Ringtones. It is Disabled in the Setup but you can enable it if you want, or go in settings to enable it. You could even download it from the Microsoft Store too, but if you dont Enable it in the Setup you can only enable it with Settings.

Build 2993:

This build is quite controvetial to some since it removed alot of apps. Songpad, Stickypad and other's were put in the Microsoft Store. People complained since it was junk software and you dident need it. It also added more support for Legacy Computers.

Build 20102:

This build qualified the OS. It qualified that it would run on the NT kernel. This build added a new startup sound, which was just the XP startup sound. It also fixed the issue with Viruses getting in. It built up the firewall. It added some internal files and a Tour. It also, for some strange reason put in the Windows 98 Help Tour Kernel program.

Build 20103:

This build removed the 98 tour program. Microsoft claims it was an mistake when trying to work some code. They say that an employe was messing around on break with the Windows 98 cd when he dropped the file into the Windows folder.

Builld 20143:

This version added more support for Older Computers. It added a Modem Mode for old people (boomers) trying to connect with a modem. It also blocked the acsess to sites like Softonic and Download,com since they were dangerous. You could enable it with  Danger Mode .

Build 20154:

MS-DOS Prompt added.

Build 20159:

Added support for Logitech products.

Trivia

 * Windows Xp Embedded 2014 Blocks Utorrent and BitTorrent applications.