It is designed for OEM, not general population (it is not XP Home!), it does not need to have 000's of drivers build in!
Four days ago I installed POSReady 2009 in a notebook Sony VGN TZ 350 and was very good! The system is fast, stable and so far have not had any problems, crash or blue screen of death. Honestly, I tried Windows 7 and Windows 8 but POSReady and far exceeded my expectations. Too bad XP is set to end on 8 April this year but who are willing to stay with him five years worth experience POSReady 2009 (extended lifecycle until 2019). Follows a screen installed system ...
FYI, USB camera will most lively needs manual intervention of copying few .sys files from XP driver.cab media (before installs), Adobe Flash needs to be installed from business msi version, but all in all very usable system. If you know what you doing. I would never made it for a friend, as that would mean lifetime "free" support sentence!
Sebus, This happened to me when I went to install the USB camera and the audio driver: had to seek sys, ksuser.dll and others. Some were in system32/drivers dll folder. Other dll had to look inside the XP CD. What most intrigued me was the stability of the system and low memory consumption and CPU! We know that XP, depending on the application that was installed, sometimes occasioned type problems or the famous blue screen crashes with games. Well, what I can say is that if someone wants to use the POSReady 2009 as his favorite OS will not regret it! P.S: I apologize for my English because I do not speak that language and had to use a translator…Thanks!!
I don't understand why you would use PoS instead of Professional? I'm not quite sure about Updates/Patches but I guess they are only maintained over oem portal which I guess you don't have access. In the end it all comes down to winxp.
KNARZ , I believe the choice is based more on personal taste the same . But we should consider that the POSReady 2009, takes a great advantage over XP Pro for a number of reasons such as reduced amount of drivers , minimal footprint when compared to XP , no useless apps like games , media player , help files ... Moreover , because it is an OS geared directly to the OEM market, its structure was designed to operate in severe conditions regarding where ( industrial equipment .... ) will be installed Concerning the updates , they are easily downloaded by Windows Update or Microsoft Update 's own POSReady 2009, while extended support will continue until 2019 ... The user should consider whether it really have it or not as their favorite OS . As I said before , the advantages are tempting , but ultimately personal taste will prevail over the choice ... See a comparison of the 2009 vs. POSReady . Windows 7 here: h t t p : / / share . technet .microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/9ebb4740-5838-4729-b51c-5ad704e71c35/advantages-of-posready2009-over-windows-7?forum=posready
So far the system has been stable and the memory consumption and CPU is extremely low compared with Win 7. Anyone else tested the POSReady 2009, with several applications installed (Office, pdf reader, Skype, Firefox, games ...)?
Just reanimated an Acer Extensa 5220 (Celeron M 550, 1GB DDR2 533 in single channel mode, 82GL960) with Eval POSr2009, killed of the timebomb, MGADiag reports genuine all across the board. Installed Office 2k7, Firefox with Flash and Silverlight, VLC, Foobar2000, Adobe Reader XI, CDBurnerXP and BitDefender AV free. Fully updated through WU, this thing became usable. Well, no HD movies, but if you want miracles that is not our trade. If the IBM support note holds true, the updates will be accessible till 2019 through WU, so it is a perfect system for the oldies. DX9c games should also be fine given a decent GPU.
the research I've done on the net IBM and Microsoft will continue to update the POSReady 2019 without any problem. SO this is a great option for the wistful that they want to hold the XP ...
Great news Tito! sense of relief when I read the above article and know that "These updates will continues to be made available through the usual channels of MyOEM, Windows Embedded Developer Update and Microsoft OEM Online, as well as through Windows Update for point-of-sale systems. "
Hi guys, I have a quick question.. I installed POSREady 2009 and activated using a MSDN key, it activated just fine (see attached) but the watermark is still on the desktop.. (?) Any way to get rid of it? I tried re-entering the serial key again and got the same result... (I even re-install clean twice) any ideas? I know XP is going out but I wanted/need a very small footprint xp machine for a project, this install uses only 620mb of hdd space... I also tried to 'fix' user32.dll.mui file used on xp but this file does not exist here... suggestions are welcome, thanks! edit, added info: I also changed the key to the one from here (...-XPKYG) and still have the same watermark, i gives a PID xxxxx-620-0656981-06273 now. SOLVED--- EDIT 2: I did a clean install using the (...-XPKYG) key and its activated with no watermark anymore... dont know why the MSDN key did what it did.. anyways, for the project I need this for I am ok now. thanks for looking..
This edition can ONLY be proper activated at the install stage (and not later) with proper key I do not believe MSDN has "full" key (but only EVAL) sebus
So? The trial is limited through the old-school NT timebomb. Removing the timebomb results in full activation with eval key and WGA reporting "Genuine" - green across the board.
Fist and foremost: Huge, HUGE THANKS to everybody here for information! Do I get it right - a winEmbeddedPOSReady2009 installation running in a VMware Player will get all the relevant patches through MBSA right till some date in 2019, and those patches could be used on my current winXP-SP3 PRO? I'd like to stay on winXP-SP3 PRO for a while, I'm not sure if it will be possible to trim win7SP1 to fit onto my EeePC900 (4GB SSD, 2GB RAM), or if win7 of Embedded class is really small enough to fit there too. Looks like simply moving to POSReady2009 could keep me safe for 5 more years. Is it correct? PS Are there Software Restriction Policies available - just as on winXP PRO? I depend on them heavily (along with LUA, DEP and EWF).
Regarding the updates you can rest assured that MS will provide the same via Windows Update until April 2019. Already confirmed! Only I can not confirm if these same updates can be installed on Win XP since both systems are intended for different purposes and POSReady is nothing more than the reduced XP ( has 900 components against 12,000 XP ) . In my humble opinion I think some updates can not be applied to XP due to the reduced amount of components POSReady . Someone from the forum can give a hint about it? Regarding which OS to use on your Eee PC 900 , can decide on POSReady or Win ThinPC which is a Win 7 designed to run on low performance PCs . Right here on the forum MDL has several threads about this great OS . Restrictions on using other software along with POSReady , you can rest easy because the same programs running in XP works perfectly on POSReady
Not always, due to (mentioned above) limited no of components! Sometimes one needs to adjust some missing files etc (ie for USB devices like webcam etc)
Thanks again. My main worries are about OS security - this notebook is for on-line banking. I must have: LUA - for everyday jobs software restriction policies - to make sure only the administrator-preinstalled code was available to LUA driver signing and all other means of OS hardening If WU site will again let me in - good, if only MBSA will get me fixes - perfect.