A browser-based recreation of the Windows XP desktop experience, built with React and TypeScript.
🌐 Live Demo
This project started as a simple Minesweeper game and gradually grew into a full Windows XP desktop simulation. It features a working taskbar, Start Menu, draggable windows, XP sound effects, and a collection of functional applications — all styled to match the original Luna theme as closely as possible.
The app that started it all. A fully functional Minesweeper with three difficulty levels and a custom board option.
- Beginner (9×9, 10 mines) · Intermediate (16×16, 40 mines) · Expert (16×30, 99 mines)
- Custom board size (height 9–24, width 9–30, mines 10+)
- Safe first click — mines are never placed on the first clicked cell or its neighbours
- Flood fill reveal for empty cells
- Flag 🚩 and question mark ❓ markers (toggleable)
- Digital mine counter and timer (capped at 999)
- Best times saved to
localStorageper difficulty - Sound effects for clicks, win and loss
- Animated face button (😊 / 😲 / 😎 / 💀)
- Death cell highlighted in red
A feature-rich recreation of MS Paint with a full toolbox, colour palette and menu system.
- ✏️ Pencil · 🖌️ Brush (round, square, diagonal ×3 sizes) · 💨 Airbrush (3 sizes)
- 🪣 Fill bucket · 💧 Eyedropper · 🔤 Text (with Font toolbar — family, size, bold, italic, underline, vertical)
- ⬜ Rectangle · 🔲 Rounded Rectangle · ⭕ Ellipse · 🔷 Polygon · 〰️ Curve · ➖ Line
- ⬛ Eraser (4 sizes) · 🔍 Zoom (1×/2×/6×/8×) · ✋ Move (pan)
- Rectangular and free-form selection — drag, copy, cut, delete, Ctrl+A
- Default size 700×400 px, resizable via Attributes dialog
- Undo / Redo history · Invert Colours · Flip / Rotate · Stretch / Skew
- Grid overlay (Ctrl+G) · Thumbnail preview (live, 150×100 px)
- Save As
.png· Open image file · View Bitmap (fullscreen) - Middle-mouse pan · Pinch-to-zoom on touch (0.25×–4×)
- Custom cursors per tool
Colour palette — 40 classic XP colours, foreground/background swap
A working browser window powered by <iframe>, styled as Internet Explorer 6.
- Full menu bar (File, Edit, View, Favourites, Tools, Help) with mnemonics and nested submenus
- Standard toolbar (Back, Forward, Refresh, Stop, Home, Search, Favourites, History, Print…)
- Address bar with favicon, live page title in the title bar
- Navigation history (back / forward)
- Status bar and toggleable toolbars
- Blocked domains list (social media, modern news sites, adult content, AI tools…)
- Custom error page when a blocked or unavailable site is requested
All bookmarks point to period-accurate archived versions of real websites, sourced from the Wayback Machine (primarily 2001–2005).
| Folder | Highlights |
|---|---|
| 🔍 Search & Mail | Google, Seznam.cz, Seznam E-mail, ICQ, xChat, Centrum.cz |
| 👥 Social | Lidé.cz, Spolužáci, Libimseti.cz, LinkedIn, Zpovědnice |
| 🎮 Games | Superhry.cz, Českéhry.cz, Happy Tree Friends, Miniclip |
| 🎬 Entertainment | Alena Pumprová, Nova.cz, Kinobox.cz, Lamer.cz iDnes.cz, Očko TV |
| 💻 Tech | Microsoft.com , Mobilmania.cz, MSN |
A two-mode calculator with keyboard support.
- Basic arithmetic · Memory (MC / MR / MS / M+) ·
sqrt,%,1/x - Digit grouping (cs-CZ locale)
- Trigonometry:
sin,cos,tanwith Inv (arcus) and Hyp modifiers - Angle modes: Degrees · Radians · Grads
log,ln,x²,x³,xʸ,n!,π,1/x,Int,F-E,Exp,dms- Bitwise:
And,Or,Xor,Not,Lsh,Mod - Number bases: Hex · Dec · Oct · Bin — unavailable digits disabled automatically
A Command Prompt window with an authentic XP look and a set of working commands.
- Font: Lucida Console · Width: 80ch · 25 visible lines
color XYsupports 16 colours (e.g.color 0A= black background, green text)systeminforeveals developer info 🙂
Available commands:
help - Show this help
cls - Clear screen
dir - List installed apps with file sizes
echo - Print text
ver - Show Windows version
date - Show current date
time - Show current time
systeminfo - Show system & developer info
color XY - Change background and text colour (16 colours)
exit - Close the window
A lightweight text editor with more features than you might expect.
- Open and save
.txtfiles - Undo / Redo (custom history stack)
- Find — with Match Case, Wrap Around and Up/Down direction
- Replace and Replace All
- Word Wrap toggle
- Insert Date/Time
- Status bar: line, column, character count, encoding (UTF-8), line endings (CRLF)
- Classic Windows XP encoding bug — typing "Bush hid the facts" or "what are you doing" and saving will garble the text on reopen
A recreation of Windows Explorer with full folder navigation and multiple view modes.
- 5 view modes — Thumbnails, Tiles, Icons, List, Details
- Full folder tree navigation with Back / Forward / Up buttons and keyboard shortcuts (Backspace, Alt+←, Alt+→)
- Breadcrumb address bar with clickable path segments
- Sort by Name, Size, Type or Date Modified
- Picture Viewer — inline image viewer with filmstrip, Prev/Next navigation (keyboard arrows supported) and rotation
- Sidebar — context-aware Tasks, Other Places and Details panels, collapsible groups
- History sidebar and Tip of the Day panel
- Thumbnail previews for image files, photo folder preview (2×2 grid)
- Status bar with object count and current path
- Open
.txtfiles directly in Notepad - Original Windows XP sample pictures and wallpapers
A recreation of Windows Media Player 8, with full playlist support, visualizations and album art.
- Play, Pause, Stop, Previous, Next
- Shuffle and Repeat modes
- Play Speed — Slow (0.5×), Normal (1×), Fast (2×)
- Volume control with XP-style slider and Mute toggle
- Progress bar with seek support
- Auto-advance to next track when a song ends
- Keyboard shortcuts —
Ctrl+PPlay/Pause ·Ctrl+SStop ·Ctrl+BPrevious ·Ctrl+FNext ·Ctrl+HShuffle ·Ctrl+TRepeat ·F8Mute ·F9Volume Down ·F10Volume Up
- Opens songs directly from File Manager (double-click
.mp3) - Entire folder loaded as playlist automatically
- Playlist shows track names and durations
- Total playlist time displayed
- Click any track in the playlist to jump to it
- Open button launches File Manager to browse music
- Album Art — displays cover image when available
- Ambience — Water · Falloff · Swirl · Random
- Bars and Waves — Bars · Ocean Mist · Fire Storm · Scope
- Battery — Randomization · Lotus · Event Horizon · Smoke or Water?
- Particle — Particle · Rotating Particle
- Plenoptics — Random · Smokey Circles · Smokey Lines · Vox
- Spikes — Spike
- Musical Colors — Colors in Motion
- Switch visualizations via menu or ✱ dropdown · cycle presets with ◀ ▶ buttons
- Full menu bar — File, View, Play, Tools, Help
- Full Mode / Skin Mode toggle (
Ctrl+1/Ctrl+2) - Fullscreen mode
- Left sidebar with navigation categories
- Taskbar integration — minimize and restore
- Taskbar — shows open applications, active/minimised state, live clock, volume icon and a security notification balloon (appears after 5 seconds)
- Start Menu — full two-panel layout with user avatar (Alena 🐱), pinned apps, All Programs submenu (Accessories, Games), right panel with system shortcuts, Log Off and Turn Off Computer buttons
- Desktop icons — My Computer, Internet Explorer, Minesweeper, Paint, Calculator, Terminal, Notepad, Recycle Bin
- Error dialogs —
appNotFound,accessDenied,hardDriveFailure,renameExtension— each with the correct icon and button set - Login Screen — Windows XP-style login displayed on startup, pre-filled credentials, also gates browser autoplay restrictions
- XP Loading Screen — animated progress bar, Windows XP logo, startup sound, shown on startup and after Restart
- Shutdown Screen — Turn Off Computer and Log Off dialogs opened from the Start Menu, with Stand By / Restart / Switch User options and animated grayscale overlay
- React 18 + TypeScript
- Vite (with manual chunk splitting per app)
- Custom hooks —
useDraggable,useDraggableDialog,useWindowState,useSound,usePaintHistory,usePaintSelection,usePaintShapeDrawing,usePaintPanning,usePaintFileActions,useCalculatorLogic - Pure CSS — no UI library, custom XP Luna variables, bevel utilities, XP scrollbars
- 🔉 XP Sounds — joshlalonde on DeviantArt
- 🖼️ XP Icons (high-res) — WinClassic.net
- 🖼️ XP Icons (alternative) — ducbao414/win32.run on GitHub
- 🕰️ Archived websites — Wayback Machine
- 🎨 WMP Skins and Icons — WMP Goodies
- 🎵 XP Soundtrack — Internet Archive
- 🃏 Solitaire
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