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This has been known for years. And this is obviously a years-old article, too... as Windows XP does NOT have 27% market share since probably 2014. And, Windows 8 is cited as "new". You did give credit to the site and author of the article, but a direct link (no shorteners) would be very handy, and reccommended to include should you share another article. Also, it is considered weird and somewhat annoying by many to capitialize the first letter of every word in English. Only the first word of a sentance, names (Microsoft, Bob, Ontario, etc.), and acronyms (Such as M.A.D.D.) would typically be capitalized. I don't know about whatever your first language is if it isn't English, but in English it's not customary To Capitialize Every Word In A Sentence As You Always Do. Just a tip.

To each their own, but since you bring it up and seem to be requesting feedback -- my feedback is this, I DON'T GIVE A RATS ARSE ABOUT "UPDATES". The very FIRST thing I do whenever I install ANY operating systems is to DISABLE UPDATES !!! !!! !!! However, I do SLIPSTREAM updates before every installation - so I do "update". And one of the things I *LOVE* about Win XP is that I don't have to WASTE THE TIME slipstreaming MORE updates. I stopped slipstreaming and patching SO-CALLED "risks" in June 2017 on this computer (WinXP x64) and in January 2018 on my SIX computers running WinXP x86. I do NOT run antivirus - haven't for a good 15 years or so. If you know "how" to use a computer and know when to click and when not to click and if you do NOT let your software "phone home" and if you only allow WHITELISTED javascript, then "you'll do just fine". And make sure your hardware firewall (I also no longer waste my time with software firewalls) is set up properly. "You'll do just fine". WITHOUT concerning yourself with HYPOTHETICAL "so-called" 'security risks' propegated by an industry perpetuated as "needed" only when you allow 12 year olds to install "games" or when grandma installs some "coupon app". But anywhoo...

If you're going to make these polls, they should actually make sense (bonus points if they were to have a purpose). Obviously, one could not use XP "forever" (as a main, i presume that is what you are talking about). At some point it will become too difficult/impossible to use it for modern things, for even the most hardcore diehards. So that pretty much takes the first option off of the table for everyone. And presuming one didn't plan to use XP "forever" (or 2025, or 2023...rather inconsistent), switching to Linux is not the ONLY option. One could move to a newer Windows OS, they could use a Mac system, or any number of other things, should they stop using Windows XP. (as a side note, i find your personal vote of "I will use it forever" extremely amusing, considering every other day, or perhaps even more frequently, it seems you are switching your Main OS.) Personally, I'll hold out on XP until I can't anymore, whenever that is. I've got too much going on now to give more worry about the future than I already do.

No, I used to say also that I will use WinXP forever too, but it became unusable for my everyday needs, so I switched to q4OS Linux with xpq4 theme and from then I never looked back at it. Of course I still keep an XP VM around, If I need software that does not work with wine...

I'll use my XP *FOREVER*. Even if THIRTY YEARS from now I "might" not be able to use a web browser or email client, I will STILL be using XP even if only on a secondary computer for Chess, Scrabble, Monopoly, Solitaire, Mahjong, Soduko, Kakuro, Crossword Puzzles, and other miscellaneous pass-the-time games that retired old folgies do between naps and yelling at the neighbor kids to get off their lawn. Although, having said that, I will also have to admit that ONE of my SIX "secondary" computers DID get upgraded to Win10 LTSB about five months or so ago because I got tired of several web sites "forcing" me to have FOUR web browsers! One web browser ONLY for ONE web site. Another web browser ONLY for a SECOND web site. A third web browser for rare miscellaneous. Then my at-the-time default for everything else. But now, ONLY because of 360Chrome, I have THANKFULLY been able to "upgrade" that secondary computer back to WinXP! Because while I like to tinker with several web browsers, I have no interest in being forced to have different web browsers for different web sites.

Made a fresh Win2000 install, installed KernelEx, then installed the driver - it didn't work. But then I found extended core 16a, installed that, and on reboot the driver worked!

Perhaps the cause is the 12a extended core. Uninstall it and reinstall the driver. After that, you can install the extended core again. And the reason may be that the downloaded version of the driver may need a higher or lower version.

The "wrapper" program previously mentioned is called JauntePE and can be found here -- https://sourceforge.net/projects/jauntepe/files/ I'm not sure those 2 folders are worth the "learning curve" to learn JauntePE but I guess that's up to you. I personally clear my cache of EVREYTHING upon exiting EVERY browser session so at least on my end those 2 folders are EMPTY so they don't bother me sitting in ~\Application Data\. The "portable loader" does have a "[RunAfter]" section but I confess that I've never used it.

I found that if you enable compatibility mode with Windows 2000, then version 13 starts to open sites with TLS 1.3 and with a valid certificate. Maybe someone already wrote about it, but I haven't seen it. You can check on this site, it only uses version 1.3: https://tls13.1d.pw/

Your hard drive might be wearing out. About reinstalling Vista, I hope you are aware that Windows Update no longer works.

Not that I'm aware of. Those folders are temp and will be EMPTIED every time you close the browser. SEVERAL portable browsers can even share that same folder without affecting each other. I use a "wrapper" program at home that will perform what you seek, but I don't recall what it is called offhand. And with those folders being EMPTIED by default, I just let them sit there and ignore them.

Hello! My name's Matthew and I really like NT 6.0 and 6.1 which I use as my daily drivers (dualboot), but I may consider plain Vista. I'm happy to be a part of the MSFN community!

From Belgium, hello @PugLover13 and welcome to MSFN! I hope you enjoy the forums! Have a nice day. hpwamr

Welcome to the MSFN!

are you getting invalid password and need hit login prompt multiple times before login? If yes it is related to buggy tls on xp. You can fix it with proxhttpsproxy. Either run it locahost or at LAN. Do you use it laptop or desktop and do you only use it at home?

The problem is fixed. If the German version of SYSDM.CPL is used the space is large enough.