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Classic Shell, now Open Shell along with 7+ Taskbar Tweaker made Windows 7 a good choice and are even more important with Windows 10. Without these third party programs that restore useful functions I'd probably still be on XP most of the time. I'm waiting for someone to bring back the classic theme for Windows 10, Microsoft screwed it up so bad removing that option it has turned the OS into a joke.

Never really moved on, I just triple boot with XP, Win 7 and Win 10. On an older computer I've still got W2k. Each OS has it uses, especially XP with programs that can't be installed on the newer ones. Of the bunch Win 10 barely gets used, I consider that OS a joke but will probably be needed in the future.

New NewMoon 27 Build! 32bit https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-27.9.7.win32-git-20210123-85c9d5cf2-xpmod.7z 32bit SSE https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-27.9.7.win32-git-20210123-85c9d5cf2-xpmod-sse.7z 32bit noSSE https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-27.9.7.win32-git-20210123-85c9d5cf2-xpmod-ia32.7z 64bit https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-27.9.7.win64-git-20210123-85c9d5cf2-xpmod.7z source repo: https://github.com/roytam1/palemoon27 repo changes since my last build: - import changes from `dev' branch of rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - Bug 524674, nsIEventListenerService: tracking of dynamically added and removed event listeners, r=masayuki (a1779bcaf) - Bug 418986 - Resist fingerprinting by preventing exposure of screen and system info. r=mrbkap, r=heycam (97710708a) - bug 1171785 create nsContentUtils::RunInStableState helper r=bholley (c71678a0e) - bug 1172377 change RunInStableState API to receive ownership of nsIRunnable r=roc (3d5c72cac) - bug 1171785 use nsContentUtils::RunInStableState() r=bholley (1c0acca87) - Bug 1172784 (part 1) - Remove unused argument from UnmarkGrayJSListenersInCCGenerationDocuments(). r=mccr8. (a3a26ec9f) - Bug 1172784 (part 2) - Remove PL_DHashTableEnumerate use from nsContentUtils. r=mccr8. (792b83f8e) - Bug 1171832 - Remove PL_DHashTableEnumerator use from nsDocument. r=smaug. (eb265bb3a) - Bug 819090 - Convert nsRefMapEntry::mRefContentList to nsTArray. r=froydnj (509060d38) - Bug 819090 - Convert BroadcasterMapEntry::mListeners to nsTArray. r=froydnj (6b1bd7232) - Bug 819090 - Convert nsDocument::mIdContentList to nsTArray. r=froydnj (41ebb3a64) - Bug 819090 - Remove nsVoidArray.{cpp,h}. r=froydnj (6038b4fc7) - Bug 1199143 - Inline heavyweight functions. r=shu (798a24e44) - bug 1150136 - rel=preconnect from html parser r=hsivonen (1a078efcb) - Bug 1135812 - Make picture element react to viewport changes. r=dbaron,johns (4b405d69c) - add missing testcase (cb6c04747) (3dc3bde9f) - import changes from `dev' branch of rmottola/Arctic-Fox: - Bug 1204426 - Unregister message listeners of settings service locks. r=khuey (751d0c649) - Bug 1173930 - Not invoke FullscreenChange callback on OS X if state is not changed. r=smichaud (70f406f3c) - Bug 1171061 - use std::bitset for deprecation and document warnings in nsDocument; r=smaug (02ec9b4c3) - Bug 1157619 P1 Network requests should not be intercepted when force-refreshed. r=smaug (9a33463d2) - Bug 1165501 - using most recent referrer policy found in the document. r=sstamm (74c7eef63) (85c9d5cf2)

New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20210123-3b12c85-uxp-411ccb0e4-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win64-git-20210123-3b12c85-uxp-411ccb0e4-xpmod.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/custom IA32 Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20210123-3b12c85-uxp-411ccb0e4-xpmod-ia32.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/ia32 NM28XP build: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.2a1.win32-git-20210123-0fe3d520e-uxp-411ccb0e4-xpmod.7z Win32 SSE https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.2a1.win32-git-20210123-0fe3d520e-uxp-411ccb0e4-xpmod-sse.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.2a1.win64-git-20210123-0fe3d520e-uxp-411ccb0e4-xpmod.7z Official UXP changes since my last build: - Issue #1689 - Part 1: Add pref for DOM Animation timelines API (b0fe759f0) - Issue #1689 - Part 2: Add a preference for implicit keyframes (407c86641) - Issue #1689 - Part 3: Add a preference for animation composite modes. (931314ef6) - Issue #1689 - Part 4: Add a preference for {Document,Element}.getAnimations() (abc58d2ed) - Issue #1689 - Part 5: Enable DOM Animations API except the preffed-off parts. (b3d380b4e) - Bump platform version for added features. (82fb08c65) - Merge pull request 'Selectively enable and pref the DOM Web Animations API' (#1714) from 1689 into master (c77d06c0c) - Issue #1715 - Handle errors when initializing print settings from the printer fails due to a bad printer name or O.S. error. (22e78108b) - [Media] Enable AV1 by default if built (75286e68d) - Issue #1630 - Enable W3C pointer events by default. (411ccb0e4) Official Basilisk changes since my last build: - [SSUAO] Updates for "mainstream" sniffers. (3b12c85) Official Pale-Moon changes since my last build: - [docs] Add basic release engineering guidelines (9855cbb52) - Revert "[docs] Add basic release engineering guidelines" (a88b7c06a) - Back-end branch pointer update (Unstable 2021-01-19) (0fe3d520e)

Your English is quite good, rest assured of it. As for your questions do please read the attached document. It's author is YuriyCN, not me: I only made an English version of it using the DeepL translator, which is crude but way better than anything the Google or Bing translators can ever hope to do. If you can read Russian, however, you should get the original file, which location is also indicated in the same document. Good luck! Later edit: thanks to @gerwin, a much more readable version of the initial translation now exists, and is attached below, replacing the original one. Windows_XP_2021_1_ENU_c.zip

Microsoft started spying on us with Windows7. If I were you I'd stick with XP.

Yeah. Forgot to mention 7+ Taskbar Tweaker. That's a double-plus-good (in the genuine sense) for Win7 and it can be 'installed' as a portable. Also worth a mention is Sizer. Kind of a niche program but use it for a couple of months and you won't end up deleting it as 'useless'. Again, can be 'installed' as portable.

I don't know if this is the best option but I went with Kaspersky Free 18.0.0.405. The issue with it is that I couldn't install it in a vm but on my real pc it works just fine

Nothing has really changed much since 2014. You can still check the updates list at https://twilczynski.com/windows/updates/, although the last update to the site was in 2017, and I am quite sure that many of the official MS links to specific updates are dead by now. I would need to go through everything and fix the broken URLs, but this is quite a massive job, so I will likely not be able to do anything about it in the near future. If you want to follow the easiest path, then just grab the FullPack from my download Archive, and then use it to slipstream everything into your clean Windows 2000 ISO. There have been reports about problems with the unofficial .NET Framework addons, so you may want to omit those, and use the official .NET installers from MS to install .NET manually later. Also, for unofficial updates, please check the @blackwingcat's content. Lastly, if you intend to run HFSLIP in newer versions of Windows, remember to always run it as Administrator, or otherwise some of the packages will not be able to slipstream correctly. Please let me know if you go the FullPack route and encounter any problems. I personally did my last slipstreaming session about 1 year ago, and everything seemed to integrate properly under Windows 10.

Frankly, that is false, and your screenshot is of some higher version that contains the EOL time bomb. As I already stated, it is well known around here that 4.4.304.0 did NOT contain the April 2017 time bomb. In July 2019, I posted a screenshot of that specific version working on Vista here. The only thing “not working” to my satisfaction was that it failed to prevent download of the EICAR test file more often than not, which is why I prefer Avast antivirus on Vista. (Also It Is Not Customary To Capitalize Every Word In America.)

I created a Windows XP X86 Spanish repository with all critical updates for Windows XP. I included also IE8 and WMP11, but I didn't include updates for those products. It just has the unofficial Spanish SP4 and the updates released after 31 mar 2012. I also included the txt where I found the links, I think all the files are archived on Waibac Machine. Here are the links to the repository. https://www.mediafire.com/file/ymsgagqz120zj9k/XP+UpdatesESN.zip/file http://web.archive.org/save/https://download1350.mediafire.com/ub9uev0co7dg/ymsgagqz120zj9k/XP+UpdatesESN.zip

Definitely download, install and configure Classic Shell. This will give you a good experience of Windows Explorer on 7 that has strong similarities to WinXP. I'm on Windows 7 myself but only because Classic Shell makes Explorer and the Start Menu tolerable for me - if Classic Shell wasn't available then I would think I'd just go over to Linux Mint. In point of comparison I have to say that I do find Win7 to be a pretty good system and am overall well pleased with it.

all visual complaints can be easily restored the old show desktop button (among others) are just in hidden toolbar (search of quick launch toolbar on google) the up level button (which is pointless) you can have via classic shell, which among many things can tweak your explorer to look and work so much better than in both 7 and XP alot useless things can be removed and SPED UP via registry

http://www.htasoft.com/u98sesp/ Scroll a little bit. Lol

Hello! I'm new to here. I'm from Russia. I wanted to join this website because I need some advice's on using on OS'es. Glad to be here!

From Belgium, hello @windowsvistadude512 and welcome to MSFN! I hope you enjoy the forums! Have a nice day. hpwamr

Welcome to the world's leading source of Windows Vista news and enhancements! I thought about expanding this claim to the entire Milky Way, yet there are apparently Martians who already have DX18 and have it working on Vista. So I erred on the side of caution.

@WinClient5270 How possible would it be to make something like the Simplix pack for Windows Vista, now that all Vista/2008 updates are done? It would be nice to have that in an integrated ISO, as well as the Ultimate Extras, as Microsoft is already breaking download links for various updates, etc.

Yes, there is one: Hopefully the day when the only viable Windows OS is 10 never comes.

... I was always intrigued by these Win7->WinVista transformation packs, although applying them appeared to me to be a tad over my skills; also was/am unsure of their impact on the whole OS performance. With Win7 reaching EoS in 5 months, they sort of look as moot to me now... My 2007 Toshiba laptop (originally with Vista 32-bit OEM) is now on its dying bed ; hardware is quite outdated compared to 2019 requirements (embedded gfx card doesn't even have h264 hardware decoding capabilities, so all video decoding is delegated to the CPU ) and despite some 2015 hardware upgrades (replacement of the original 128GiB HD with a 500GiB one, RAM augmented to 3GiB from 2GiB, repair of the screen etc.), the OS has become corrupted and sluggish; I am not prepared to invest more money on the machine/OS (also taking into consideration the miserable state of Vista with regards to current software support), the only realistic option would be to, sadly, move on to a recent laptop model with, no doubt, Win10 ()... Now, I know that a Win8[.1]->WinVista transformation pack does exist, because @WinClient5270 was using it on his machine, although I'm not sure a video tutorial has been created for it ; if a Win10->WinVista TP had been available by now, it would be an idea I would gladly entertain, as I simply and utterly loathe the abomination that is the Win10 interface! But then I wake up and realize one is not likely to appear, given the nature itself of Win10, "Windows As A Service", not a finished product, rather a constantly evolving "beta" OS (for which updates are massive and difficult to control; with every major OS update, the TP would probably break... ).