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Questions tagged [reactos]

ReactOS is an open source operating system that is based off the same design principles, and aims to be a binary compatible replacement for Windows. ReactOS is currently in alpha.

Questions using this tag must relate to ReactOS. The OS is currently in alpha stage meaning it is not feature-complete and is recommended only for evaluation and testing purposes.

The minimum requirements to install ReactOS are:

RAM: at least 64 MB, recommended: 256 MB
Processor: x86 or x64 architecture, Pentium or later and compatibles;
HDD: IDE/SATA with minimum 350 MB of free space on the primary partition 
(please note that some SATA controllers may not work with ReactOS)
    FAT16/FAT32 primary boot partition 
Video: VGA compatible video card (VESA BIOS version 2.0 or later)
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Is ReactOS or WINE the more stable replacement for Windows XP?

As Windows XP is now out of support and any freshly discovered vulnerabilities will not be addressed, it's time to retire Windows XP from my Internet-connected computers. There's a lot of Windows-specific software installed on these machines, and…
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Is it possible to run Corona SDK on ReactOS or Wine?

I dumped Windows, I'm now using Xubuntu. Is it possible to run Corona SDK on Wine? On Corona forums, they say no, but I wounder how this guy did it? Is ZeroBrane a solution? What about ReactOS (or any other open source Windows based OS)? Is it…
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ReactOS won't boot (black screen)

I recently tried to install ReactOS, and did so by: Downloading the .iso from SourceForge. Writing it to a USB drive using the "Make bootable USB stick" option on the Nemo file manager (for Linux). This created a 1.9GiB iso9660 partition with all…
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Disable Auto Login And Use Logon Screen Instead?

On a clean ReactOS 0.3.15 installation you don't get to create an account, and the system auto logs you in at boot under an unknown account? Is there anyway to use a login screen, like on Windows?
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Get The VMware Tools SVGA Driver On ReactOS?

I'm setting up a ReactOS 0.3.15 X86-32 virtual machine in VMware Player 6.0.1. VMware player doesn't officially support ReactOS so as suggested in the ReactOS installation guide (http://www.reactos.org/content/reactos-installation-guide#vmware) I'm…
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Triple-Boot + 4 partition Limit

I just bought a new hard drive so that I could convert my XP-only machine into an XP-Ubuntu-Windows 7 triple boot machine. Since the drive is absurdly huge (1 TB) I wouldn't mind throwing ReactOS into the mix, too. I just found out that master…
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How To Adjust The Pagefile Size In ReactOS?

I want to use a different page file size, but it doesn't seem to accept my commands. There is a pagefile present; I can see it in my root directory. The "memory" command also shows stats for it. How do I change the size? I'm using ReactOS 0.3.15.
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