Pirated Windows more impressive than the real thing

The latest version of TinyXP has hit the pirate boards. SP3-integrated and with more tools than you can poke a stick at, it gives XP a new lease on life. Shame it's illegal.
One of the annoyances with installing a fresh copy of Windows XP these days is that the driver set is six years out of date, and there’s been a LOT of new hardware emerge since then. It’s one thing to install the latest graphics driver, but it’s another to have to set up everything from the chipset to the storage drivers. Sometimes you feel that after having spent half an hour installing XP, you’re spending twice that much time again to just get it functional.

Fortunately, Windows enjoys a very modular installation framework, so it’s relatively easy to insert additional drivers during setup, something which computer manufacturers use all the time. It’s also led to a spate of all-in-one Windows kits cropping up all over the internet. Based on pirated copies of Windows (generally XP Professional), they contain various tools to assist in creating custom installs, recovery tools, and integrated patches.

One such pack which has been doing the rounds for some time is TinyXP, and with the recent release of Windows XP Service Pack 3, software group eXPerience have just released TinyXP rev09 to the general underground.