Exploring Terrible Windows Bootlegs...

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It's been a while since I've done a video on a bootleg copy of Windows. So today I tracked down 4 awfully modified copies to take a look at. Let's see what I got myself into this time...

Thanks to Computernewb for preserving many of these bootlegs!

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:25 - Gold Windows XP 2009
09:33 - Windows XP 7 Genius 2014
17:42 - Windows The Avengers
29:15 - Windows 7 Angry Birds
34:28 - Outro

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Background Music:
"A Night Alone", "Hookah Bar", and "Ersatz Bossa" from the YouTube Audio Library

Outro Music: Silent Partner - Bet On It

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[KingNikolai]

dont talk to me if your primary OS isnt windows angry birds edition

[naverlyn]

> gold windows xp
> ubuntu logo and slightly vista wallpaper

[PineconiumOfficial]

Windows modifications have two sides.
- Actually well made with effort put in.
- Platinum Window 2009 (99% chance to have random totally legal bloatware)

[Waltman]

All of these are oozing with "graphic design is my passion".

[inkballpro]

Hi Michael! Thanks for taking a look at these, I'm actually a wiki administrator for the source you got these from (User:Kon on the wiki) and I've made some articles on various different ones. I know you may not be so fond of how they look, but glad to see you return to the unofficial windows series once again! Been a fan of it for a long while.

[xWaLeEdOoOx]

Third screen of Avengers installation screen reads:
Follow up:
The Tour was Removed
Help was Removed
The UNUSEFUL How to Use Windows was Removed

[Akahigep]

Jokes aside, I miss themes. It was super exciting to have themes, download them, get themes from magazines with discs...

[frazercowan]

It's hilarious how people have the skill to modify Windows like this and they choose to make it hideous.

[bm_midotv]

Man having been born in north africa and actually seeing people use bootleg xp versions as their daily drivers is an experience like no other. Its funny and nostalgic watching this video I actually had s relative use windows gold and saw nothing wrong with it. Good times...
And great video hope you make more in the future

[SLRK]

In Russia in the days of windows xp relevance, this kind of bootlegs were on almost every pc,
such as the most famous of them zverdvd,
god how awful it was,
some of them had important features removed, so that
some software wouldn't even run or install...
Thinking back to those times I can say it was the best advertisement for licensed software...

[xWaLeEdOoOx]

the Arabic text on GENIUS installation screen translates to:

HUSSAM (on the Right Side)
Welcomes You
The First and NOT LAST version
Try to benefit from this system
In ALL use cases
System is full of
Features

[Doxxii]

Michaelsoft Windows XP Gold Super Sniper

[knobbymcfeck]

Wait, the Angry Birds distro doesn't come with playable Angry Birds? What a missed opportunity

[xamtastic]

Good lord the thumbnail is horrible! This is gonna be a good video

[kuramamizukage]

OMG THE GOLDEN WINDOWS OR WHATEVER WAS IN THE THUMBNAIL WAS SO FAMOUS IN PAKISTAN AND I EVEN BOUGHT THE CD FOR IDK 15 CENTS IN MY TIME

[pb-doslegacy]

The Unofficial Windows Versions series is back and Michael, once again, deep diving into the Gaber Samir world of Windows.
ngl haven't seen the OG series for years

[suspeh]

God sends his worst designers to make his best versions of Windows 🤧💘🙏

[th_terminator]

Hi Michael, I didn't know if you knew, but we run a wiki that documents all of these bootlegs called "Crusty Windows". If you ever make a sequel to this video, it might be a useful resource for you to find stuff :p

[axpz]

If my OS doesn't look like the urine of a super dehydrated drunk, then I don't want it.

[ーシルヴェオンー]

Nothing will ever beat the bootlegs made by Gaber Samir.