Windows XP Delta Edition Beta 2 Overview
Windows XP Delta Edition is a modification of Windows XP which aims to recreate the Windows XP Beta 2 aesthetic and bring back lost features, functions, and programs from previous versions of Windows, along with prerelease versions of Windows XP.
Windows XP Delta Edition Beta 2 Release Notes
(Revision 5/17/2022)
Introduction
- Changes from Windows XP Delta Edition Beta 1.1
- Shell and UI
- Themes and Customization
- Existing Programs
- New Programs
- Extra Bonuses
- Miscellanenous Changes
Known Bugs
// Will Hopefully Fix
// Won’t Fix
Changes from Windows XP Delta Edition Beta 1.1
// Shell and UI
- New icons across the OS, notably Administrative Tools
- New wizard bitmap design, consistent for the most part
- New logo in System Properties
- Changed logon sound
- MSI installers have new icons
Themes and Customization
- New Watercolor theme, with 5 color schemes in total
- Luna’s shutdown button is consistent with Whistler
- Changed Whistler’s color scheme name to match Luna
- Professional wallpaper says eXPerience instead of Whistler
- Fixed spacing on Metallic’s maximized titlebars
Existing Programs
- Card games have a new look, taken from XP2003 Reimagination
- Paint uses XPize’s icon set
- Updated WordPad’s toolbar icons
- Internet Explorer has more new icons
- Outlook Express has new icons and branding
- Regedit is replaced with a modified ReactOS Regedit
- Updated screenshots in HTML tour
- Changed wording in Welcome screen
- Language Bar uses Server 2003’s icons
New Programs
- Added the Clock applet, with a new icon
- Added CD Player, with a new icon
- Phone Dialer is on the start menu now
- ClipBook Viewer is on the start menu with a new icon
- Object Packager is on the start menu with a new icon
- Private Character Editor is on the start menu with a new icon
- Movie Maker 1.1 has a new icon instead of reusing Movie Maker 2’s
- Windows Media Player 95 has a recreated Windows 3.1 Media Player icon
- Updated Welcome applet icon to fit in better
- Beta 2 and Whistler tours have new icons
- Renamed “Movie Maker 2” to “Movie Maker 1.1” in Program Files
- Beta 2 tour does not overlay lines if categories are clicked too fast
- Beta 2 tour has its own titlebar string and icon when opened
Extra Bonuses
- Added Beautiful Way to Sample Music
- Added the classic MIDIs to the Media folder
// Miscellaneous Changes
- Removed Windows NT 3.51 upgrade support due to a bug
- Removed “WIN95UPG” and “WIN95MIG” folders as they are useless
- Fixed typos across the OS and documentation
- temp
Known Bugs
// Will Hopefully Fix
- The Whistler theme’s taskbar buttons are not flush with the taskbar on the vertical taskbar.
- Beta 2 tour has a lot of cut off lines, and has a missing “Networks: Powerful and Practical” section.
- Discs don’t update when a new disc is inserted until Explorer restarts.
Won’t Fix
Windows Media Player 6.4 and 95 will not be on the start menu by default. The Post-install Script must be run manually after setting up WMP9 to fix this.The visual styles may fail to copy during Setup under some circumstances. Run the Post-install script manually to fix this.The automated Post-install Script will not run under upgrade installs.Outlook Express’s inbox folder icons are stuck in 16 colors. This is harcoded and can’t be fixed.
Note: There are still some inconsistencies left. Windows XP Delta Edition is only made by a few people, and isn’t finished yet, so expect them to pop up.License: Free │ File Size: 737MB
