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Source code of Windows XP (NT5). Leaks are not from me. I just extracted the archive and cabinet files.
11 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 0 stories, 11 comments · first 2022-06-23 · latest 2026-09-10
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…clocks even on a pipelined Integer Unit such as the P6/ia64 processors i.e. ~ 52% perf gain. [0]: https://github.com/tongzx/nt5src/blob/daad8a087a4e75422ec96b... [1]: https://github.com/tongzx/nt5src/blob/daad8a087a4e75422ec96b...
comment by amag · 2026-09-10 · in What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture? -
It doesn't: https://github.com/tongzx/nt5src/blob/daad8a087a4e75422ec96b...
comment by reddalo · 2026-09-10 · in What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture? -
For those interested, here's the actual code Chen talks about: https://github.com/tongzx/nt5src/blob/daad8a087a4e75422ec96b...
comment by EMIRELADERO · 2026-09-10 · in What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture? -
Something the tweet doesn't mention is that the leak may have come from Intel: https://github.com/tongzx/nt5src/blob/daad8a087a4e75422ec96b...
comment by EMIRELADERO · 2025-10-09 · in The Story of 'FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8' -
> https://github.com/tongzx/nt5src/blob/master/Source/XPSP1/NT... > It is based on the SpiderSTREAMS source, stremul\msgsrvr.c. There's some special history.
comment by p_ing · 2025-05-26 · in Get PC BIOS back on UEFI only system -
…to the legacy OS. I would really love to know more about this. I assume it's this VGA driver: https://github.com/tongzx/nt5src/tree/master/Source/XPSP1/NT...
comment by mmastrac · 2025-05-26 · in Get PC BIOS back on UEFI only system -
No need. https://github.com/tongzx/nt5src/tree/daad8a087a4e75422ec96b...
comment by EMIRELADERO · 2024-12-28 · in A design flaw in the Windows 3D Pipes screen saver pointed out by a customer -
…That code still seemed to be around in (some versions of) XP: https://github.com/tongzx/nt5src/blob/daad8a087a4e75422ec96b... As for the ZIP support, I can't find the source code for ZIP folders specifically. There's thi
comment by jeroenhd · 2024-03-25 · in The Format Dialog in Windows NT -
Help yourself: https://github.com/tongzx/nt5src/blob/daad8a087a4e75422ec96b...
comment by EMIRELADERO · 2024-01-29 · in Breaking SecuROM 7 – A Dissection -
…here. It's hard to tell if Microsoft altered the source code since, but the leaked XP source code ( https://github.com/tongzx/nt5src/blob/master/Source/XPSP1/NT... ) doesn't seem to do any getenv() calls for DNS lookups. The specific bug…
comment by jeroenhd · 2023-11-20 · in Setenv Is Not Thread Safe and C Doesn't Want to Fix It -
…NT 4.0: > https://github.com/lianthony/NT4.0 > https://github.com/ZoloZiak/WinNT4 Windows XP: > https://github.com/tongzx/nt5src > https://github.com/onein528/NT5.1
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