(New) Anyone know if Windows 5 is real? / (Old) Experimenting With Windows Longhorn

[MajorPager]

I've been experimenting with Windows Longhorn, and Whistler, on real hardware and I've mostly been able to get Longhorn to work. The only problem is that on boot it says to choose an OS, either Longhorn or XP, and both of them go to Longhorn since I installed it over XP. How can I remove the XP prompt from boot so I don't have to press enter every time I do a restart or startup?

 

[USAFRet]

I've been experimenting with Windows Longhorn, and Whistler, on real hardware and I've mostly been able to get Longhorn to work. The only problem is that on boot it says to choose an OS, either Longhorn or XP, and both of them go to Longhorn since I installed it over XP. How can I remove the XP prompt from boot so I don't have to press enter every time I do a restart or startup?

That was a fault in your installation routine.

You should have DELETED all existing data.
Now, you have an install that thinks it is a dualboot.

 

[MajorPager]

That was a fault in your installation routine.

You should have DELETED all existing data.

My bad, the only option I had was to do a clean install while booted into XP, it wouldn't allow me to boot from CD in BIOS.

It's just testing anyway.

 

[USAFRet]

My bad, the only option I had was to do a clean install while booted into XP, it wouldn't allow me to boot from CD in BIOS.

"while booted into XP"
That is/was the problem.

You need to boot directly from your install media.
If it didn't allow that...fix that problem first.

 

[MajorPager]

Is Windows 5 actually real? And if so, how and where would I obtain a copy? I've never seen or heard about it before so I doubt its real, but it does intrigue me.

https://windows-never-released.fandom.com/wiki/Windows_5 / Link talking about it.

 

[USAFRet]

Is Windows 5 actually real? And if so, how and where would I obtain a copy? I've never seen or heard about it before so I doubt its real, but it does intrigue me.

https://windows-never-released.fandom.com/wiki/Windows_5 / Link talking about it.

No, it was never really a thing

Windows 5

For other uses, see Windows 5 (disambiguation). Windows 5, codenamed Commodus (1999) and Treebox (2005), is a Windows version that was the successor to Windows 4.0 and the predecessor of Windows 6. It was first released on May 6, 1999, with an appearance similar to Windows 98 SE. This system was...

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[MajorPager]

No, it was never really a thing

I was hoping that it was, I actually like the look of it, and the whole fact that its called Windows 5. Its the same with 6 and 9, they're just odd to say out loud.

 

[USAFRet]

I was hoping that it was, I actually like the look of it, and the whole fact that its called Windows 5. Its the same with 6 and 9, they're just odd to say out loud.

Windows Version History:

Microsoft Windows version history - Wikipedia

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