Questions

How do I submit a question?  I would like to see what the OS GUI  looks 
like and how closely it follows the XP GUI.  I think a good feature  would be 
the ability to import the XP registry so all of the programs would not  have 
to be reinstalled. Thanks.
 
Jim Kirwan

[Timo Kreuzer]

Hi Jim,

If you are interested in ReactOS, the first place where to look at is 
our website at www.reactos.org. There is a screenshot section, but 
please keep in ming that the screenshots are partly outdated. There is 
also a forum, where you will probably find more recent screenshots from 
users and all kinds of information. This is also a good place to ask 
questions.
If you like to, you can easily install one of our recent releases or one 
of the daily builds (download links are on the front page) in a virtual 
machine, like VMWare, VirtualBox, Quemu. etc.
The installation takes less than a minute and is very easy. It is 
currently not recommended to install ReactOS on a production machine, 
since it currently only supports FAT32 (NTFS in work in progress) and 
could potentially cause problems with an already installed system. We 
also have mailing lists and IRC channels, where you can ask your 
questions,  more details can be found on the website in the Community 
section.
The GUI currently resembles the XP gui relativley closely. In the 
default installation the "classic" theme is active, but we also support 
XP style theming and one theme is provided with the OS, others can be 
downloaded from other sites and installed.
Regarding the registry: we are forced to follow the MS design relatively 
closely to make sure applications work as they work on Windows. The 
possibility of not having to reinstall programs would need major changes 
to the registry code. At the current state of development this is not a 
planned feature, but additional features like that could be added, if 
someone with the required knowledge could implement it without breaking 
application compatibility.

Regards,
Timo Kreuzer

Am 19.12.2014 um 00:01 schrieb Cact25(a)aol.com:
>   How do I submit a question?  I would like to see what
> the OS GUI looks 
>  like and how closely it follows the XP GUI.  I think a good feature 
>  would be the ability to import the XP registry so all of the programs 
>  would not have to be reinstalled. Thanks.
>  Jim Kirwan
>
>
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