Aims

• A user friendly Winbuilder experience. To achieve this I will endevour to keep the User Interface (UI) clean and simple.

• To maintain and update documentation and instructions.

• A successful build every time - provided the instructions are followed.

Goals

The goals for the MiniXP operating system -

• The ultimate goal of this project would be to use Dietmar's first set of files (instead of the second) as the core for MiniXP - this would allow a smaller base that can be built upon as required. To achieve this goal, we need a better undertanding of the dependencies Dietmar added to support DiskPart.

• Add full winlogon support - this project is currently dependent on minlogon.exe.

• (Re)impliment application installers.

• Add regional support (language, keyboard, timezone).

• Clean up the registry settings included in Dietmar's registry hives.

• File backed disk mapping on USB devices. Partially working

• USB mass Storage support. Partially working

• Get DiskPart working if Service pack 2 or 3 source files are used. reboot.pro forum member cdob has suggested that this could be resolved by adding the DcomLaunch service - I have not (yet) been able to start the DcomLaunch service in MiniXP to test his theory. Please refer to the reboot.pro forum topic here. Done - thanks cdob

• File backed disk mapping - to test as this may already be implemented with the use of the WinVBlock driver. Confirmed to be working

• Add a shell - Wonko the Sane reports that bblean works well with Dietmar's first file set. Done

• Use source files from an installed Windows XP to build the project - possibly offline. This will effectively mean rewriting all of the scripts and may take some time. Done