![]() To download the WAIK direct from Microsoft, check out. Drivers can be injected but it seems a bit of a pain to get everything working though thankfully I've not had a problem with networking. net Frameworks) but it will run a ton of apps, including many portable apps (mIRC, VLC, Firefox, etc - the basics) and it doesn't come with Explorer so you'll have to find your own desktop environment (I chose bbLean). I'll admit there are caveats, it won't run every app that ever ran on Windows (for example anything that requires. ![]() What this means is that you'll have a very basic copy of Vista (did I mention it's free and legal?) on which to build your own live "distro" of Windows. Using WAIK (Windows Automated Installation Kit) you can build your own USB or CD based version of Vista using Windows Preinstallation Environment 2.1. Now you can make your own, and I did just that over the last few days. You can download the ISO directly from the Internet Archive, and there’s also a torrent version available from there if you want to grab it that way.Ever wanted a livecd or liveusb version of Windows to carry around with you? Sure, there's USB versions of Windows floating around the torrent sites but their legality is questionable and who knows what kind of crap people have infected them with. Although the image only uses 4GB of RAM, it needs twice of that to load. And because this is a non-persistent image, all the progress is lost, and as such, it's on a boot loop. Virtualbox VMs don't work, because it reboots after the "installing devices" phase.It only boots on legacy MBR/BIOS devices.NTDEV describes it as a "proof of concept" and warns there are several issues to be aware of, including: While this is a great idea, it’s not without issues. ![]() ![]() This was made possible thanks to the grub4dos project, as well as the SVBus driver. Since it's only 4GB, this means that it can fit on DVD, making this possibly the first Windows 11 live DVD. Live11 is an optimized tiny11 image that was designed to fit on a 4GB VHD, and that it runs completely on RAM. The developer behind this breakthrough - NTDEV - previously created Tiny11, a majorly stripped-back, bare-bones version of Windows 11 Pro, and has now produced an optimized version called Live11 which is designed to run in RAM.
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