Restoring the Disney Windows XP Laptop

[@meligarcia]

The Happiest Restoration on Earth

[@sefaagook]

Windows Xp flowers...

[@BearNoobArchive]

@@sefaagook Windows 7*

[@NKthecat_23]

no, the most Family Friendly restoration

[@meligarcia]

@Xbox360Panda yep! I have like 200 something comments

[@ninethetwotailedfox]

@Xbox360Panda Realistically yes. you can tell by seeing his "Top Commenter" badge.

[@ricksandstorm]

Love it! Creating a bootable USB that goes straight into that Disney desktop would be the perfect prank to pull at the office.

[@real151kmh]

Easy to do

[@XPNGamer]

​@@real151kmhthen do it

[@dejiko]

I remember using these sort of netbooks while in middle school. Nothing but horror stories, they were already sluggish and unusable back then.

[@SnowBunneh]

I asked my parents for a computer. They got me an Eee pc and were surprised I didn't use it much.

[@rcmero]

Going through high school with a netbook, I can confirm. It got the job done, but that was it.

[@elfedorausado]

I'm still surprised that many people in Venezuela still get by using netbooks to this day.

[@XENON2028]

same thing here but every time we tried to boot them, CHKDSK would show up and when it finally booted about 100000000 programs loaded up at once and all the computers were unusable

[@xsc1000]

@ISCARI0T In fact XP was fine on this. But than they started to sell it with Windows 7 and still only 1GB RAM. It was totally unusable.

[@danwei9898]

It would be cool to see if the Disney desktop software would work on Windows 10. I would like to see if you added a favorite like Google if you could access any website and basically break the parental lock.

[@JessicaFEREM]

it did tell you that it does break the parenthal lock

[@drake_lol]

if i’d have to guess, it would probably block you if you tried to go on any other website that doesnt start with google

[@APZOEIRT]

​@@drake_lol get the ip

[@tinfoil209]

How a piece of software tries to stop a browser from connecting from "X" website has changed a lot since XP. The OS and browsers don't allow near as much to stop man in the middle types of malware.

[@anon_y_mousse]

If you use Google image search you'll see that it often displays the image from the website referenced. If it can't access that then it'll display a tiny one from their cache. There are some issues with sync on occasion, and the images are fairly low res, but I'd say whitelisting Google would be a no go since it would allow for porn access by the kids.

[@loretaarroyo]

If I had this netbook when I was younger, I would use it 24/7. That Jonas Brothers/Hannah Montana wallpaper would be the best thing ever 😭

[@1bitjay]

I know 😭

[@animeloveer97]

lmao until you have to do anything besides type a document. netbooks are notoriously slow and can barelly run 144p vids without massive lag/ buffering

[@chrisakaschulbus4903]

"That Jonas Brothers/Hannah Montana wallpaper would be the best thing ever" I'm growing breasts and my testicles shrink because i read that sentence.

[@theny54guy]

@@animeloveer97 sure lol, i have a netbook and it runs 720p yt videos with a tweak or two

[@ChestnutThing]

My cat loves when I play your videos because he likes to listen to you talk as he sleeps on my lap

[@compscidoggo]

My boyfriend, who's studying cybersecurity, is testing how secure this Disney desktop was. He's trying to see if he can open command prompt through the Disney desktop. So far he's gotten into file explorer using the language bar, but it's pretty hard since right-click is blocked.

[@lxlit]

Wordpad is added to the whitelist. The open file dialog is a great exploit. About the right click, I've used the context menu button on the keyboard to get the option it might work.

[@kyoudaiken]

Interesting to see parenting software and kids stuff. Never had contact with that type of thing. I could do with my PC whatever I wanted, but that was long before the internet. When we got real internet, I was already 11.

[@cydragon2.099]

sort of the same here until i was 11 or 12 my family didn't experience the internet unless at a library or school

[@kyoudaiken]

@@cydragon2.099 We had DialUp right before DSL became a thing. But we didn't use it much because it was painfully slow. We then got DSL in March 2001. 768 kbps download and I have no clue how little upload. LMAO But it was blazingly fast back then.

[@dashtesla]

I would never use parental control on my kids also I was fixing computers since i was around 10 years old so it's not like it would've made any difference if i had parents that were this sadistic...

[@kyoudaiken]

@@dashtesla I fully agree.

[@chrisakaschulbus4903]

@@dashtesla I remember in school i had a bootable linux drive so we could boot PCs without the safety features. Formatting C: was always tempting... i was 12yo back then. Our teachers probably hadn't even a clue what a bootable usb drive is.

[@TheAverageJoystick]

I remember when I was younger and me and my dad borrowed a usb drive of someone that also showed up as a cd drive. That were some fast windows xp installs🙌🏻

[@NoahClevinger]

Thanks as always for the amazing videos, Michael!

[@kFY514]

I got my first computer when I was around 6 or maybe 7. In my early teens I was almost a power user of DOS and Windows 9x, and learning to code, while my parents were barely comfortable with using MS Word and the like. I remember reading about parental control software back then. "What are they thinking, that kids don't know how to reinstall Windows?" XD I messed around with the image in a VM, and while the hardening against running arbitrary applications is decent, quite quickly I found that you can open any Windows Help view (e.g. for WordPad, or even Disney Desktop itself), click on the app menu icon (the top-left corner of the window), select Jump to URL - and open arbitrary websites that way. So much for controlling what your kid can see ;) At least if the kid is tech-savvy and creative ;)

[@AccSwtch50]

Never thought of that way of escaping restrictions.

[@PhineasFlynn-rl1ne]

And yes kids are very tech savvy even back in the day.

[@ristopoho824]

raspberry pi is my favourite linux. It's based on debian and works just as well as any. But what makes it useful is that it comes with pretty much all programs needed for daily casual use, and not too much advanced stuff, none of which is needed tu use it. It's pleasant, and runs on pretty much anything, so perfect operating system as far as i'm concerned.

[@tappyturtle]

@@KiraSlith it’s called raspberry pi os now

[@KiraSlith]

@@tappyturtle Really? That sounds like an outright stupid idea to rename it that. But it's their project, whatever. Edit: NOPE, that's the old desktop, that really is Raspbian not "Raspberry Pi OS" aka "RaspiOS64".

[@iamxjayden]

@@KiraSlith kkkl

[@ristopoho824]

Yea. I still call it raspbian when talking. It's a better name, it just is. Maybe the raspberry pi os sounds more formal to attract, idunno, somebody, business people or whoever.

[@anon_y_mousse]

@@KiraSlith Yeah, Raspbian is actually a great name, and since it was just called that for like 8 years, they should've left it.

[@EmperorSquidysChannel]

I literally JUST got done watching the previous Disney laptop video, what a surprise!

[@Gyanu_0x45]

I don't know if this can help you, but i usually use the "yumi multiboot" to create a bootable USB and it works really well with that strange iso's!

[@mikkojala]

or ventoy

[@WindowsXP2600]

we just so happen to have the same pfp

[@Gyanu_0x45]

@@WindowsXP2600 😊

[@WindowsXP2600]

@@Gyanu_0x45 also i use a similar tool called ventoy. Its great also.

[@Nova_Pancak]

I personally use Ventoy.

[@WindowsXP2600]

i like these restoration videos, keep up the good work!

[@Ro_Devvz]

hmmmm

[@kyoudaiken]

@@Ro_Devvz ikr?

[@WindowsXP2600]

@@Ro_Devvz are you talking about my apple support name? Its a joke btw. i regret making this my name.

[@googleaccountfromgoogle]

@@WindowsXP2600 You can rename your account if is regret

[@WindowsXP2600]

@@googleaccountfromgoogle thank you!

[@bhasitl]

Yayyyy! I was waiting for this video! Thank you Michael!

[@cameronshaw8732]

I really thought when the funcam came on we were going to FINALLY get a glimpse at you! 😂 been watching for years and I want to put a face with the voice.

[@aaroncarson]

We got an ear!

[@steventechno]

Raspian is an interesting choice, as many would use something like MX Linux, or AntiX Linux on such hardware. but I'm sure Raspian did give it another shot at life before it was sold off. If I had a system of this calibre, It too would probably be running an obscure 32-bit Distro. IF it were a novelty laptop such as this, then it too would likely be running a "Stock" installation like this.

[@Redmage913]

With 2GB RAM and an SSD, a 64-bit system works just fine. But, due to performance, stick to XP. Old games will definitely prefer this.

[@cydragon2.099]

Thank God that you uploaded this... been active today and don't know if i have the energy to play much of anything

[@quadruple_negative]

"The Trial of Norton Anti-Virus" Sounds like some epic RPG.

[@RemyJustice97]

I've had a rather awful day from start to finish, and this video is just what I need right now. Thank you 🙏🏻

[@elijah5573]

same, mjds vids always make the days just a lil better

[@MotownBatman]

Damn, The Disney Interface is actually pretty sweet. I had 2 of these, Had I known bout the additional software on those, I would have installed it on them for 2 of my kiddos. Neat-O

[@chrisakaschulbus4903]

Now i'm really glad my parents didn't infect our hardware with parental controls. They actually took the time to look into what i'm doing and explained stuff to me. They also teached me that PCs aren't toys. (even though a disney logo apparently changes that)

[@georgeh6856]

They should have made the login sound the "When You Wish Upon a Star" song.

[@chrisreynolds6331]

I use the PC version of raspberry pi OS to test unknown PCs and laptops too. It's remarkably well made. Good driver support and they've included the 32 bit UEFI for those quirky machines with 64 bit CPU but 32 bit UEFI

[@maxpayz2431]

Linux and Ubuntu can do that as well right? Or would raspberry pi be better?

[@DrStinks]

I love these kind of vids, keep up the good work!

[@pineappleroad]

I wonder if the reason for the USB drive not working is down to the fact that there needs to be extra things added to make an ISO bootable from a USB, and that ISO lacks the things required

[@manuelthecolombianvyonder2544]

Keep up the good work, MJD!

[@mats520]

I've installed Windows 8.1 on the Disney net pal. It works just fine

[@cannagame3933]

Michael I was just watching the video where you were looking at the pink one. I said aloud to myself how it'd be cool to see the other one work and sure enough you upload this an hour later lol

[@usernotfound-h2v]

I know the struggle of trying to make a bootable XP USB drive.The only tool that works is called "WinSetupFromUSB" for both XP and Windows 2000

[@scurvy3113]

Rufus

[@ivandfx]

@@scurvy3113 rufus doesn't work for XP and 2000

[@pvcvalley]

i had an eeepc too. great machine. good memories.

[@RetroGamerOG_]

Now this is the best restoration video

[@ADreamingTraveler]

I find that so funny that people think their kids couldn't just find a way around this stuff lol

[@axpuser671]

Yessssssss! I was waiting for a disney restore video.....!

[@carlos_did_a_thing]

17:29 proves that micheal is actually a camera

[@kalark]

great vid! I really have a soft spot for netbooks

[@Thanos.m]

I remember netbooks being sold into the early 2010s still with Windows XP in fact I remember the last time time I saw one in a store window was not long before window XP support went out and I remember thinking that the support for XP would Run before the laptops warranty

[@Noaddedsalt01]

Thought later netbooks ran windows 7 starter edition at around 2011 and later, to be fair xp would have been better for them as 7 was extremely slow on them even without areo

[@Thanos.m]

@@Noaddedsalt01 yeah windows 7 starter netbooks were very slow. The last XP I mentioned I saw must have been early 2013ish I think probably new old stock the shop was getting rid off. But I remember even by early 2010s windows XP downgrades were still quite popular

[@animeloveer97]

@@Thanos.m yea windows 7 starter sucked so bad i installed xubuntu on mine lol

[@lauriekimani]

​@Thanos.m I still use a netbook that came with win7 starter,I upgraded the ram installed an ssd and put arch linux in it.

[@FruityBaboon]

It's an eeeepeeeeceeee. -Dankpods

[@princegoatcheese9379]

Oh my God! Hannah Montana, Jonas Brothers and Cars all on one screen really brought my mind back to watching Disney Channel at my grandma's house.

[@pinroshan020]

Petition to remove the baseball guy in your video because he creeps me out while watching your awesome contents.

[@iPhone3GS_68]

The greatest restoration that’s ever lived

[@awp_silver]

Now this i was excited about

[@milasudril]

* What happens if you trigger an GetOpenFileName dialog box. Could you break out of the jail through WordPad, that is: Does it use OS level file permissions, or is it simply a restricted shell. * Does the browser allow the user to click on a link that leads out of the sandbox?

[@k6kaysix675]

My old job in a school I knocked up a Ghost server on an old PC sat next to my desk using a dodgy corporate edition download off the Internet and it could fire out a full XP+software image to a full suite of 30 PCs in about half an hour, although we never got anything fancy like PXE boot working so had to go round with a Hiren Boot CD to every PC to load up network drivers and then the Ghost executable! Fun times and luckily Symantec never came knocking for a license audit ;) Also schools bought hundreds of netbooks back when they were 'popular', the Samsung NC10 was a pretty good model though for their basic needs of light Internet browsing and Office

[@Nickanan_Kerkla]

15:56 it’s called memories

[@AndreasElf]

That calculator is actually really fancy.

[@SolarisAndCryo]

The sequel we've all been waiting for but nobody asked

[@landlps]

Hi Michael, Thnx sooo much for another amazing video, did u realise that you did an ear reveal during the webcam footage?!?!?! Just thought that I might mention that as idk if u were aware! Thnx for the content once again!!!

[@strawberrylemonadelioness]

8:06 oh cool they got an icon of Kiara from The Lion King 2 Simba's Pride!

[@RemyJustice97]

"So the programs in that folder were for if you, say, accidentally uninstalled the trial of Norton Antivirus (God forbid) that came with your NetPal and wanted to reinstall it (...also God forbid)." That made me laugh, thank you

[@GabrielFurryPhone]

Revisit the MSN tv!

[@JadenYukifan28]

That Laptop is so cool. makes me wish I had one

[@MattiasMagnusson]

You shoud check out E2B (Easy2Boot) for USB booting, just put the iso straight on the USB and go 😅

[@cydrake5838]

You might want to look into a external ODD emulator like the zm-ve350 from Zalman or the IODD ST400.

[@MrAwesomedude808]

Funny that the name is John and one of my favorite characters is John from Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress! 🎶There’s a great big beautiful tomorrow, shining at the end of every day🎶

[@JacyDavies]

Typically those Eee PCs have terrible specs and don't support 64bit OS's, which makes Raspberry Pi one of the only currently updated versions of Linux that will install. Not many current mainstream distros support 32bit anymore, When I tried to find one for my late era Eee PC most of the links were dead or didn't support processors that old.

[@thesidneychan]

There's still plenty of 32 bit distros like Zorin, Peppermint, Arch32... You'll have better luck finding them from distros that are adamant about keeping old hardware alive. You ought to try Antix. It boots fast on SSD and is incredibly snappy. Local programs load quickly. It feels brand new again.

[@tweakz_tech]

But Pi OS is normally only supported on the Rpi? Right?

[@thesidneychan]

@@tweakz_tech there are versions for x86.

[@anon_y_mousse]

Have you tried Slackware? It's only this year that 15.0 was released and they finally added 64-bit support by default. Might need to go back to 14.2 but it should work perfectly. Though it does have a bit of a learning curve with installation, once it's installed you shouldn't need to mess with it to keep using it. Of course, as long as you don't have UEFI it'll be easy.

[@animeloveer97]

@@thesidneychan wheni had a netbook like 10yrs ago i used xubuntu. its very lightweight but you need to know how to install stuff

[@uniqueflowsnake]

I had one of those Eee PCs at one point, without the disney branding. Just pure black. It was fine for watching some Fam Guy or whatever on the bus but not much more. xD

[@itsyeeoledskoolfurry3208]

HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY WINDOWS XP!! It could now buy it's own alcoholic beverages!!! 😅😂🤣

[@MarcoGPUtuber]

The next NAS I send to Michael will be Disney themed. Just because

[@MagnumForce51]

A laptop that old might not support booting from USB Flash drives (though one would think that should be a thing by that time). Odd the ISO is a bit to big. I wonder if it's just some DVD-Rs have smaller capacity then real DVDs?

[@AaronOfMpls]

Or did some commercially-pressed DVDs have the track packed slightly, to squeeze more data on? I know it was a thing with CDs (to fit 80 minutes on instead of 75), to the point where even CD-Rs did it.

[@animeloveer97]

they defenitly can i installed linux on an acer aspire 1 netbook from 2007

[@cherrym6262]

I had a 2008 laptop with Windows Vista and was able to install window 7 using a booting USB. I used a program called Yumi to do so and had to change the boot order and so forth. It's possible, but I think this laptop being it have low specs probably wasn't possible. 🤷‍♀

[@FennecTECH]

Raspian is honestly the best OS for something like that

[@GTFour]

Seems pretty good parental control software tbh. I'm wondering what to put on an old laptop for my nephew to use.

[@SupaPhly0]

We got a mjd ear reveal for a moment there

[@blainepalmerza]

Awesome video, Michael!

[@nukelauncher95]

That bobblehead looks straight out of a horror movie during the webcam segment

[@FatherMcKenzie66]

Man I wish to have one of these!

[@huleeyaxerssius7]

Myself, never had any kind of parental software & the like on my computer back when, or on the family computer when those were still a thing in my household. Could go onto whatever i wanted to, back in 2000 i think it was when i were using the family PC with Windows 95 for the first time, and my own PC with Windows ME in 2002. Parent's didn't monitor what i was doing really, as they were cool with me doing what ever wished then as well. Didn't end up installing any viruses/malware on the computers back then, only time i did really was when i were in high school, around 2008 where i must've downloaded something bad on my laptop at the time, then got a friend of mine to fix it.

[@kbhasi]

(4:09) I'm thinking it'd be more for if someone wanted to install a retail copy of Windows XP without all of the ASUS customisations. At least I had a similar experience with an NEC laptop I used to have.

[@NormanF62]

I didn’t know Disney had a custom Windows XP version. Would have liked to get it back in the day. Oh well! I have to be content with my XP themed Windows 11.

[@ryanwakebradtelle8682]

Could you write a script to open command prompt or the run program to do whatever you wanted

[@Shenvuika]

To those who don't know: The Disney Laptop To those who know: *The Eee-Pee-Cee*

[@TheGameBoyss]

AWHH MY PKCELL

[@Alexander_l322]

Dankpods

[@dagiboy7]

I scrolled until the first Dankpods comment. Nugget.

[@carlos_did_a_thing]

I love eee pee cee's

[@hyperturbotechnomike]

Frank says nothing.

[@MultiWirth]

I´m so glad i never had to go through the pain caused by such parental control software as a kid. A friend of mine had a windows xp "spongebob squarepants edition" with similar stuff. Later on his new pc and laptop, which both ran windows 7, his dad installed either a backup&restore program or a read-only mode with a ramdisk, can´t tell for sure. But the thing i know: It would "reset" everything to the default every boot, so whatever game you installed or whatever music you downloaded, it´s gone at this point. It might certainly help to keep the system clean but c´mon that´s just ridiculous. The definition of control fetish.

[@GooseAffiliate859]

Damn, that is bad. Resetting every boot like it's a library computer.

[@AccSwtch50]

Disney desktop seems to be a modified version of magic desktop.

[@Clancydaenlightened]

1:54 that's wen u just install using a boot able hard drive or flash drive or SD card

[@Clancydaenlightened]

universal usb installer should work

[@JackTheAviationGuy]

Michael Try Using The Restore On A VM Then Upgrade To Vista ,7 ,8, 8.1, 10 and maybe 11! To get the software up and running on newer hardware

[@generalsquirrel9548]

Im wondering if there is a part 2 for the compaq portable restoration

[@rocketcat2]

Yeah the parental controls had no effect for me since I knew how to use those restore disks at 9 lol

[@oxfamshop]

I still have a computer running windows xp pro . I notice that on later operating systems some computers fail the system requirements for movie maker . No such problems with xp

[@siberia21]

Oh nice work! And for the time, the kid Control System is really nice! And for an adult Person I am, I like the Colors. If I start today a MacBook or a Windows 11 system. Every time is tough: why we have so extra powerfully Grafikcards for black, with with a little bit of blue… :)

[@dexgaming6394]

16:50 Wow, they have rounded corners. They were so ahead of their time.

[@barra352]

I don't know if you are joking or blind or never noticed that in XP windows have round corners

[@dexgaming6394]

@@barra352 yes, it was a joke

[@hyperturbotechnomike]

The reason why raspberry pi linux was installed may be that it's a very lightweight distro designed to run on a very slow CPU and small amounts of RAM. The Intel Atom CPU's were abyssmal in performance, even for 2009 standards.Some of them were as slow as an already outdated Pentium III. In 2010, i had an EeePC with an Atom N450 CPU and i experienced a lot of input lag in MS Excel 2010 and KZbin framedrops at 480p. The whole machine just was pain to use, because the CPU was so underpowered. The integrated graphics were awful. Low power CPU's weren't ready yet. The first good low power CPU, i have ever experienced was the i5 3437U, which i had in a HP Elite 2170p. It was the first netbook which wasn't pain to use and didn't feel laggy while doing basic office work and web browsing, but it also was pretty expensive.

[@MichaelMJD]

True, but there are other lightweight distros out there. I just found it interesting that they specifically went with RPi OS over something else.

[@Ashley143qt]

@@MichaelMJD yeah, puppy linux could also work

[@AnanNinamı]

And thats how i started to watch mjd

[@Ferg13]

Wonder if you you put the usb stick putting windows XP on it MBR may work.

[@LiEnby]

i wonder if its possible to break out of the disney desktop at all and get back to the windows desktop? i kinda want to look at this now

[@boofiboi]

Ah yes, the disney eeepeeceee

[@burgerdudeyt]

Dankpods will love that eee pc

[@NatetheNintendofan]

Michael mjd I don't you won't notice this but you're one of my favorite KZbinrs you're like the best techtuber not only 14 and I kind of want to make another deal for technology but I don't really have well I like doing virtual machines but I don't have enough money to buy computers I like modding my video game systems like right now I'm dumping an and back up cuz I'm installing another wad on to my Nintendo Wii also question is KZbin your full-time job

[@Akselmoi]

17:31 MJD ear reveal

[@rico-228]

Imagine watching disney r34 in this laptop, full immersion

[@davemiller122]

13:15 CLUB PENGUIN NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[@marioplushfilmzz]

i didnt even know disney had its own windows XP

[@novatiberium]

Just so you know remember when Disney was just kids stuff? Now Family Guy is a Disney show.

[@franciszekmoszczynski6389]

10:49 notice changed to windows vista icons

[@johnnythegreat8199]

This Is Incredible! Where Can We Buy One?

[@anon_y_mousse]

You missed an opportunity to use the Hannah Montana theme, really compete with Hannah Montana Linux using a Windows version.

[@RadicalBlur]

Dude, I was literally just trying to get a windows xp restore iso on a dvd earlier today too, but the file was too big for it. I even used a usb and that failed to install. Might try what you said to delete, but I think that's only for the specific one you used. I don't really know what to do

[@RadicalBlur]

update on this, I got a disc with more storage on it and it fits now

[@riffraffng]

Is there a way to dual boot the raspberry pi os with windows 10?

[@Stacy-Freshener]

Would love this if it was a bit newer in specs , even 2GB is enough , it has some decent CPU with IGpu or DGpu , it can run Disney's related games like Split/Second , Power Rangers 2010 etc or Mickey mouse Realm of Illusion , which are disney related games . There are more for Disney Interactive which is separate but Mickey Mouse is most close to main TM. So yah .

[@twcmyers4160]

Yes the black laptop video yess