hello everybody and welcome back to
another video now in today's episode yes
we're going to be revisiting the Disney
Windows XP net pal Netbook thing that we
recently explored in this video and as
suggested by some of you guys we're
going to be restoring the Blue Magic net
pal here back to its original Factory
state by using the media that I've got
burned to this DVD right here because it
is currently very interestingly running
Raspberry Pi OS which is an interesting
operating system choice for something
that isn't a Raspberry Pi but at some
point that's what somebody decided to
put on here so we're going to restore it
back to its original Windows XP
installation and we'll also be taking a
look at some of the additional programs
that were not installed on the pink net
pal mainly the parental controls program
the original one because if you remember
from the other video the software that
was on the pink net pal was upgraded and
it wasn't you know Disney applied like
this one is going to be so we'll take a
closer look at that of course the first
challenge I had to overcome here which
isn't really a challenge at all is that
there's no internal disk drive in this
laptop or Netbook if you want to be
proper here and that's very common with
netbooks because it was usually the
first thing to get removed to make these
machines a lot smaller so we're going to
be using an external DVD drive right
here to accomplish that and I should
also mention that the software I've got
burned on this disk is not technically
the original ISO file because I had to
modify it because the original ISO file
get this was around 200 megabytes over
the maximum capacity that you can fit on
a regular DVD so I went in and deleted a
couple of things so that it would fit on
this regular disk right here because I
don't have any dual layer DVDs and the
nearest store that had one was like 45
minutes away and of course the discs
were like freaking expensive now if
you're wondering why I even went through
all of this instead of just creating a
bootable USB drive from the iso image
believe me I did try that multiple times
with multiple different pieces of
software but unfortunately despite
everything that I tried I was not able
to properly make this into a bootable
piece of restore media from the iso
image it's certainly possible though
that it is possible but I did speak to
the guy who originally archived the
installation media that I talked about
in the first video and he said that
despite his best efforts he had issues
getting this to work as well so I'm just
going to let the USB drive win that one
for now because I already had all this
stuff lying around anyway so we're just
gonna go this route it'll work just fine
hopefully but first I want to give a
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let's go ahead and adjust the camera
everything and get this thing restored
back to factory settings removable
medium is inserted hooray so the drive
works that's wonderful so we're just
going to log out of raspberry pios here
and reboot and boot up from the DVD and
go through this restore process now just
to be honest here I have done this a
couple of times in a virtual machine
when I first found the image online I
think it was actually before I even had
the Disney net Pals in my possession
because I wanted to explore the software
and get familiar with some of the things
that you know Disney slash Asus put on
here it is a fairly straightforward
restore process in fact it utilizes a
Symantec ghost image and that's the neat
thing too all the stuff that I had to
remove to make this image fit on this
DVD don't actually affect the restore
process whatsoever on the DVD on the
root of it there is a software folder
and inside of that are all of the Asus
programs that come pre-installed but
they're already contained in that ghost
image obviously so the programs in that
folder were for if you say accidentally
uninstalled the trial of nor nantivirus
God forbid that came with your net pal
and wanted to reinstall it also God
forbid well you could do that just by
putting in the restore media browsing
that software folder going into the
Norton folder and running the executable
from there you don't have to go through
the entire restore process again so yeah
we're just going to hit OK here it asks
us you know do you want to restore then
are you sure yes we want to restore and
we'll see some antec ghost launch here
momentarily there it is and if you're
wondering what specifically I removed
from that folder well one of the things
was Nor Nancy virus I also got rid of
the Skype installer and a couple of the
pieces of Asus bloatware that were in
there as well that I mean you wouldn't
really use I mean okay maybe you would
if you really wanted to use them you
know you can because like I said it
doesn't affect the restore image here so
anyway it's telling us to please wait so
we're gonna wait unfortunately there's
no progress bar or anything so we can't
actually see how long that it's going to
take and there we go it says it's
finished asks us to remove the DVD uh
the Glorious Windows XP boot screen it
just celebrated its 21st anniversary of
the general availability depending on
when I upload this it's either like a
day ago or a couple days ago or yeah I
don't know exactly when this video is
going to go out but yeah Windows XP 21
years old it's kind of nuts to to think
about but yeah so here's uh Samantha
goes once again it has to go through
this and uh and do some more restore
things before it properly boots into
Windows XP so we'll let it do that
reboot all right
there we go so the sound drivers are set
up properly isn't that wonderful I mean
that is what you would expect here but
yeah
welcome to Microsoft Windows of course
this is going to be asusified so thank
you for purchasing this computer from
Asus featuring Microsoft Windows XP all
right so we got some additional options
here your system settings and then like
there's a point where you got to of
course agree to the Asus license
agreement as well so yeah here's that
we're going to accept both of the
license agreements
of course reading them 100 percent fully
we're not going to bother with the
automatic updates we're going to call
this uh what's a good name here uh we'll
just say netpal why not computer
description not going to bother with
that all right
come on you can do it you can do it uh
no we're not connected to the internet
right now no I don't want to bother
registering with Microsoft
and we'll just do M for the username all
right are you guys ready to experience
the most magical computer on Earth I
know I am I mean it's not like I've
taken a look at this I don't know how
many times already but yeah I definitely
want to dive into the original Parental
Control software because that was the
one thing that we didn't take a in-depth
look at in the original video I I did
record some footage and overlay it into
the first video and kind of talked about
some of the things you can do with it
but we're going to actually go through
the process of creating a user account
with it and you know showing off how it
replaces Explorer and the limitations
that you're able to set up for
presumably your kid who would be using
this or multiple children if you you
know had this be like a shared computer
between people and it actually starts
the parental control software right when
you log in for the first time this is it
so it says welcome press start to begin
okay so you press start we're going to
create a new user I don't know John okay
yeah and you see that you've got the
choice between Windows user pictures and
Disney pictures they've got a plethora
of photos in here of various Disney
characters so we're gonna select I don't
want to go with Eve here so we'll select
Eve you can set a password if you want
and just like in the windows user
account panel in control panel you can
change the user picture rename or change
the password but you have this
additional option of choosing a desktop
environment so you could go with the
standard desktop which it will say that
it gives user access to Windows XP this
option does not include filters or
restrictions so theoretically you could
go through and make standard user
accounts with this program as well but
of course the the added benefit you get
is choosing the Disney the desktop
environment which replaces Windows
Explorer and comes with limitations you
can set up of how long you want people
to be logged in what programs you want
them to be able to launch we'll click on
next and this is where you choose the
approved program so by default it's got
all of the Disney programs in here so
you know mix Central Disney picks we
took a look at these two programs in the
first video we also have some additional
stuff fun cam which ties into the
parental control software in fact if we
go into all programs here under easy
bits for kids which is the name of the
parental control software you've got the
internet browser the email client the
Windows Explorer file browser
replacement and the fun cam program
which is just a piece of webcam software
so yeah in addition to that you also
have wordpad sound recorder
um again some Disney stuff Minesweeper
pinball but you could also add like
let's say you want to let them run Adobe
Reader and there it is let's say you
want to add Movie Maker we can do that
we can add PowerPoint Viewer why not so
yeah just a single click on these will
add them and I think if you were to
click on like Adobe Reader here and then
yeah remove this title so you could
remove let's say we don't want them
accessing Adobe Reader so yeah you can
set that up you can go to next and this
is where you can set restrictions for
when certain programs will be allowed to
be launched so let's say pinball I only
want them to be able to play Pinball on
Sunday so let's say I want to get rid of
every other day of the week at every
other time yes you can go through set
all these restrictions up however you
want and then it tells you down here a
program started before block times
you're not subject to restrictions so
yeah that's a way of bypassing it if you
just know to launch the program before
the blocked time period starts it'll
just stay open it's not going to just
close the program when it gets to a
certain time so we'll just hit next here
I mean I'm sure you get the idea there
you can configure internet settings and
go in here and you know modify this is
just the standard Windows internet
settings panel so you can go through
here modify these settings to your
liking and we'll hit next and then it
just brings you back here to the initial
screen so we'll hit finish and this is
very important too you want to make sure
you set a master password we'll just uh
do mjd I'll show you how that ties into
the interface once we log into the other
account so we're going to log off of my
account here we'll just switch user and
now you see there's this other account
here with the eve profile picture so
we'll log in
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oh there it is so yeah oh well that's
not supposed to that is not supposed to
happen you're not supposed to be able to
access the start menu so that's uh
that's great I guess maybe that was
because it was doing the initial setup
you know like Windows was setting up
preferences for the account and normally
it does open the start menu that's right
like when you log into an account for
the first time you can't access the
start menu I can press the Windows key
all I want nothing's going to happen it
has blocked that I don't think you can
even press Ctrl delete yeah you can open
up task manager so they have a lot of
restrictions in place to make sure that
you can't bypass the Disney desktop
environment here there is a replacement
for the start menu though and that is if
you click down here you've got you know
some options here about Disney desktop
return to Windows which will ask you for
the master password if you want to close
out of the Disney desktop software you
can start your screen saver Terminator
program and very interestingly they've
got Hardware stats in here your battery
level memory usage CPU usage and you
know how much space for you've got on
your hard drive which I find kind of
nice that they've got right here in this
menu of course as a kid you won't really
know what any of this means I'm sure I
mean maybe if you if you were a little
bit older perhaps you you might but uh
yeah I find that interesting they've got
that in there so yeah we'll just close
out of that and this is your your dock
down here which has all the programs
that you're allowed to launch so we can
access the web browser here we'll just
start with that why not the web browser
is extremely basic of course we're not
connected to the internet but you can't
actually like type in a web address you
are only able to go to specific Pages
we'll come back to this in a moment here
that your parents or whoever would set
in the favorites here so you can click
on favorites and it will bring up all of
the allowed websites that you can go to
but if you want to add something to it
you just click on this option up here
it'll ask for the master password so you
enter that and then you get an address
bar here that you can you know go to
like google.com if we were connected to
the internet we could and then you can
also say you want to add Google to the
favorites so this comes up with this
parents alert please read this Online
safety message before adding any
websites to your favorite list once you
add a website to your favorite list the
Disney desktop browser online protection
will be disabled for that site so your
child will be able to access all the
content on that site you should never
add a new website to your favorite list
unless you have reviewed this site and
are comfortable with your child doing
all the content available on that site
so yeah you would hit OK and then it
would say added to favorites and you
know you can actually name it Google
here and make available to all users
enable all pages within this website
approval of this site expires so you
could also set like temporary approval
if you only wanted to allow access to a
site for like one day or one week you
can set that there and then you just I
believe click on this here and there you
go now we go into favorites yeah there
it is Google and then once you want to
get out of the parental mode here you
just hit log out and then it'll ask you
for the master password again once you
click on there so yeah that's a common
theme with all these programs and this
interface too with these large buttons
up here I mean if you watch the original
video you'll know that in Disney pix and
in the mix Central software it was kind
of the same thing you had these large
buttons to navigate around the program
so yeah it makes sense you know you just
want to keep it simple for the the kids
who'll be using this so yeah I don't
know what like what is this here is this
um oh these are some of the included
games okay this right here I believe is
the okay yeah calculator fancy calc ooh
so you got a calculator you've got like
a sticky notes program thing easy notes
you know you can enter in some text here
you know this is where you you create
the notes so you can't just like click
on here and like edit the note in real
time you have to click on it it'll open
the program then you can make a new node
here and then add that apply and then
close out of it and then that note will
be on the desktop as well so there you
go this one here is I think like a
puzzle so you can move it around here
um evidently you can't move it like over
here I guess this area is like reserved
for icons is that the way it is with
everything yeah so you can't move that
over there and yeah it's like a you know
just scrambles it and you you gotta just
you know push the pieces around to to
make the puzzle so you got like a couple
games here I think this is just the
clock yeah this is another game it's
like a matching thing you've got what is
this table tennis oh wow yeah and it's
cool that they're all in like these
little mini windows
they almost are like gadgets and then
you can personalize your interface too
and apply some desktop themes so in
addition to the hyperdesk themes that
you can get access to from the standard
Windows interface you also have these
additional themes for the Disney
interface and you can also disable oh
they are they are actually called
gadgets look at that so you can enable
some additional gadgets to say you don't
want any of these we can just uncheck
all that and say you want like my
pictures and say maybe want to add this
again and you got some tray skins as
well that's actually nice so we can
maybe add like this one and let's apply
maybe the The Cars theme and we'll hit
OK and then it will apply that for us so
there you go and now you've got the my
pictures thing down here which is just a
little Gadget that will Shuffle between
pictures I guess let's take a look at
we've got fun camera we also have Disney
email because of course every kid's
favorite thing to do is launch an email
client here welcome to Disney email do
you want to set up your mail account now
yeah so you would need to have a parent
to do this or someone who knows the
master password because it asks you for
that and then it's pretty much just a
standard you know email setup procedure
here you have to go through once you set
that up then your your mail would would
show in here and I guess we can also
take a look at the Fun cam program
because I've not messed around with this
yet so I'm kind of curious to see like
what you can do so yeah there it is just
like you know a view of the webcam so
the little light comes on up there as
you can see and so you know we can take
a photo and we can add some wonderful
effects I'm sure to apply effects use
your mouse to draw a line okay so we can
draw a line that's going to warp the
image we can we can twist it
like oh yeah you can probably do a lot
you can do some great stuff to this blur
it and you can make it grayscale so yeah
that's definitely a nice piece of art
we're gonna save that that is uh
beautiful so yeah just like a little you
know webcam you can mess around with it
and do whatever you want kind of thing
or are there any settings in here let's
see clear image cache on exit Okay use
recent device
um oh yeah so if you had like a an
external webcam uh you could you know
set that up in here but I mean I'm sure
you just want to use the internal one
and you can adjust some settings as well
like the brightness we can you know
lower that if we want or make it like
super bright you can adjust the contrast
the Hue so yeah you can get kind of
artistic in here maybe make the
saturation super high maybe lower the
sharpness you know increase the gamma
there yeah you can you can definitely uh
screw around with this but yeah so that
is the the little fun cam webcam program
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that's pretty much it guys that is the
restore process from start to finish
here on the Disney net pal I hope you
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