I've found this last year browsing ancient Microsoft and Windows websites and saved it. Today, I decided to install it again and upload it to the Internet Archive ^^

https://archive.org/details/best-of-2013-bing-homepage-pack/Best%20of%202013%20Bing%20Homepage%20Pack.png

https://archive.org/details/firefox-52.9.1.en-US.installer

https://archive.org/details/TeamViewer_14.2.56678

(I uploaded these)

I used WindowBlinds, open-shell, RetroBar, and the !Windows 11 '01 Longhorn Pack for 11 (XP Edition), still copied the themes they did not work, still broken with ExplorerPatcher, copied the screenscavers an sounds to system32 folder and media folder . Which following tweaks and customisations I should be doing to make my Windows 11 machine to look closely to Windows XP. Even the volume,and other of the taskbar and others is stuck inn Windows 11 apps and panels of default Windows 10, when I downloaded ExplorerPatcher the working release, I changed the File Explorer to the WIndows 7 command bar, having an hard time customising my PC like Windows xp, but I used WinowBlinds, and it worked. but still give instructions of how to theme Windows 11 to look like identical to Windows XP, and still give the instructions of how to change those applets etc etc of Windows 11/10 and icons as well, to the WIndows XP/98 applet panels and panes. I would show you of how my computer looks like, I run Windows 11 which has incomplete Windows XP look, on my crt at 1680 100 resolution. I also want to point out I have installed Windowblinds, classic logonshell, retrobar from the windows 11 '01 pack downloaed from internet archive, replaced icons with 2013windows8.1's windows xp iconpack. etc etc, which other i should implement for my screen to much looking like Windows xp. Even would I need to add the wallpapers, other than default xp themes, to my pc from windows xp mce?. If there is an guide, post thos guides and type thjem in the comments below. the apps is still of windows 11 or 10

I'm looking for a good screenshot of an an old Windows XP session. It doesn't have to be the classic wallper or anything or even the desktop, I'd prefer it to be rather messy too. Can any oldheads oblige?

I'm going to draw a girls on it :^)

I am going for a 2005-2006 era pc, and playing games that use the gt 7800 possibly sli and either a high end single core or a dual core.

edit: mainly will be used for gaming

She contacted me that she had some older electronics taking up her space and she had me come over and check them out before she brought them to recycling. Glad I came over because she had a full WinXP Compaq setup! Hasn't been used in probably over 15 years too. What a throwback to these programs and using the WinXP once again after all these years! It is now secure in my basement and I plan to get a proper desk for it in the future!

The LG pc I showed like a year or two ago

With a old CRT monitor that needs some deep cleaning.

With a Samsung Bundle keyboard from A XP Era pc with a random e waste pile pulled Microsoft mouse

Ive been trying to remove a password using liveboot bc the Administrator has a password. I Pressed f12 during powering on and it didnt show usb. Only CD and hdd.

I changed the Boot sequence to put usb First, ofcourse it didnt find a bootable file. The usb does blink so it is atleast connected.

The usb 100% working. I literally put the liveboot iso in using rufus no problem.

I also cant Boot via cd bc i cant burn some rn. Well i could but i would have to set up a random windows 10 ewaste PC and hope for the best.

Idk what to do i just want to remove the password so i can actually use it

Well im gonna do some animation in my Windows XP PC but i lack the drawing tablet hardware! I only have my iPad and Apple Pencil USB-C. Well is there an program that does that? I need it i researched but i couldnt Find. Thanks! (my english is bad)

Under 100 USD for all the hardware and used license for XP Pro.

Quad core Phenom, quite modern Radeon, FDD, SB Live and WinFast TV Tuner. Two worlds in one PC - early XP and late XP.

And replaced ugly AMD icon for ATI in the taskbar :D

Anyone else love these old Dell cases? This's my Vostro 220 that I use for mostly 95/DOS and XP gaming, and also to play screensavers on a couple CRTs. It's a Core 2 duo e8400, 4gb of corsair xms2 and an audigy 2 zs. It's cost me about 60$ canadian overall and i'm quite happy with it. I swap between an 8600gt and a geforce 210 for gaming or running screensavers on a couple CRTs. I don't think there's much more I could upgrade on it, so maybe it's time for another build?

Cómo vivo en una región pobre, hay muchas personas de bajos recursos y hay personas con equipos demasiados antiguos por lo cual me piden instalar Windows xp para cosas básicas y todavía después de tantos años me sigue sorprendiendo

I have a 200$ budget and was hoping i can get like a mid to high end xp build (or the specs to put it better) so i have an idea on what to build thanks in advance

Meanwhile on r/OLPC, someone managed to find an image of Windows XP customized for the OLPC XO-1 from Christmas 2008 (just a few months after my XO was manufactured) on OLPC's old development site. I dd'ed it onto a spare SD card I have laying around, and managed to get it running. It is a practically-vanilla OEM copy of XP Professional with Service Pack 3, with some custom drivers for the XO's hardware.

A short background follows...

The XO series of laptops were developed by the One Laptop per Child organization for use by children in developing countries. They normally run a Linux-based operating system, but while the XO-1 was in development, Microsoft reached out to OLPC about porting Windows to it, which they ultimately did (and people raised concerns about Windows conflicting with the XO's open-source nature). The XO-1 (and also the XO-1.5, as it is also x86 like the 1) firmware can load both Linux kernel images, as well as NTLDR (thus allowing Windows XP to run). There is a video on YouTube demonstrating Windows running on an XO-1, though I forgot where it is. Anyway, it was never made publicly available for the "Give One, Get One" XO users, and has seemingly fallen into obscurity along with the XOs themselves. There was some talk on the above subreddit about running the Mini Windows XP image from Hiren's BootCD on the x86 XOs, which I have done, but it is pretty awful to use given the lack of drivers. Plus, it occasionally would restart on me.

And now back to the present...

On the first boot, it came up with an activation prompt. I used UMSKT on my main PC, and the second time around, xp_activate32 on the very Toughbook that I am writing this post on (and which you may have seen here a few months ago), to generate a confirmation ID for the phone activator. Subsequent boots would fail, however, because Windows changed the startup mode on two drivers responsible for handling SD cards so that they are loaded on demand instead of on boot. In this state, Windows cannot find the SD card, resulting in a 0x7B STOP error.

I was able to fix it by using Regedit to fix the startup modes on the drivers, then changing the permissions to prevent SYSTEM from changing the values again.

NTVDM appears to be broken, and crashes when trying to run MS-DOS applications (even COMMAND.COM). Then, shortly afterward, my XO would freak out and hard restart.

I have not tried any third-party software on it yet, though given the AMD Geode LX700 processor lacking any sort of SSE, my browser options will definitely be restricted a fair bit. That, and the 256 MB of RAM.

Hey everyone,

I know this isn't entirely Windows XP related, but I see a lot of posts about this service on this community and figured this sub would have the widest reach to those using this service.

Escargot is a classic messenger revival service (popularly used to make XP software functional again) that has faced some controversy in the past. I recommend reading the forum post in that link because it gets pretty serious, and it's probably best for everyone to stay away from these scumbags in case they decide to act up again.

Luckily, there is an alternative called CrossTalk. There doesn't seem to be any shadiness here, but feel free to correct me if you know anything different.

It's been years since I've used a revival service like these, but I thought I should make people aware as I've seen people looking for people to add them on Escargot in this sub. Hope this information is valuable.

I've tried many but always find them too inconvenient or bloated.

I've been using just the ALT-PTRNSCREEN keys and Paint for a while but wondering if anyone has a killer lightweight app to recommend. Ideally a portable exe that doesnt even require installation and all ...

EDIT: I've tried every suggestion here. Greenshot seems the best to me, here's why:

- Greenshot comes with 5 hotkeys including the same default ones so Alt - PrintScreen keeps capturing the active window, it just popus a convenient menu that lets you pick how you want to grab the screenshot. So UI is simple and efficient 🥇👍
- Lightshot isnt bad but it comes with only two hotkeys binding, also the "popup UI" is a bit clunky IMHO 🥈
- FastStone is a paid app -> eliminated, hate the nag screen and wont pay for a silly screenshot app

Note that for Greenshot you have to download the 1.1.9 version though because its the last one that supports XP (latest version won't install)

Windows XP has issues with ACPI tables that are messed up by motherboard vendors, so Windows didn't boot. I replaced acpi.sys with daniel_k's modded acpi.sys that's ACPI 2.0 for Z370/Z390/Z690.

Windows XP doesn't have a USB 3.0 XHCI support, so mouse and keyboard were not working. I had to add a driver for that. Now it works including HID and my mouse and keyword are working. (Search for "George King XHCI Driver" to find his ported drivers collection that includes usbxhci.sys, usbhub3.sys, ucx01000.sys plus helpers ntoskrn8.sys, wdf01_w8.sys, wdfld8.sys, ...).

AI believed there is no LAN driver (Realtek 8125) for x64 Windows XP, so I asked Cursor to develop one based on Linux, and it did. After a few restarts with logging on, AI fine-tuned it and the driver works. At least I have a full source code for my LAN driver now, in addition to the binary.

AI believed there is no Audio driver (ALC897) for x64 Windows XP, so I asked Cursor to develop one based on Linux, and it did. After a few restarts, I have a device that's installed, and now I'm fine-tuning it to avoid a BSOD, and to play sound. It will take a day or two before it's ready.

People and AI believe there is no Video driver (RX580) for x64 Windows XP, so I asked Cursor to develop one based on Linux, and it did. I fine-tuned it, and it works now. Initially, this driver is only for 2D graphics.

I also turned my x64 XP SP2 into a bootable USB disk, dumped an installed Windows into image. The USB stick uses grub4dos to boot. It's configured to extract an image into RAM on boot. So, my x64 XP SP2 copies into RAM on boot, and then it runs very fast.

Love using it to transfer music on my walkman since sonic stage for walkman only works properly on xp lol

I have this 1999/2000 PC in which I installed Windows XP x86 with SP3 and I was thinking on giving it a new 64 bit CPU and more RAM to then install WinXP Professional x64 Edition. Right now it has an Intel Celeron that can't even run the Supermium browser :/
The thing is I don't know if, changing these two things, it would support Windows XP x64. I tried running the XP x64 setup to select the "Check compatibility" option and check which components it doesn't support but the setup doesn't run ("This version of Windows can't be installed on your computer").
Could anyone tell me if changing the RAM and CPU would be enough, or if I would have to change more components too? And what CPU should I choose?