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I had to downgrade to XP from Windows 2000 ( to which I upgraded from NT.4.00, to which I upgraded from NT 3.51) at the latest possible time, I think around 2008 or so, to compensate, I use XP daily since. Both of you don't sound like particularly old, considering that I was already working since quite a few years when Windows 3.0 came out, and soon after Win 3.1 and 3.11 for workgroups. All we had was a 286 or maybe a 386 Sx, 1, 2 or maybe 4 MB of RAM ... and we liked it! ... kids today ... https://tinyapps.org/blog/200702250700_why_in_my_day.html jaclaz

I have been waiting this day whole year. Windows XP turns in to 20 years old today. US launch was in 24.10.2021. Here video from it launch event https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KgOgjdY830 20 years really flew. XP was truly amazing piece of technogy and is still used thanks to MSFN. Today I will be only using Windows XP to celebrate it. Maybe everyone should share some when started using XP, how liked from it and if is still using and do you have plan use it on future Also funny note that XP is now old enough to legally buy strong alcohol drinks here

I think he was involved with Vista too, but he probably doesn't talk about that too much!

There is a reason not to copy this file. In my case it breaks some apps if they detect you have d3d12 library on your system. for example rivatuner no longer works when you have this file in your system32 folder.

Ah. Thanks for sharing this link!

I have no idea what happened here and why is everyone arguing and have no intention in joining any fights here. It was quite a long time ago with my dell latitude e6330 with i5-3340m. if I recall correctly the vmware service was giving me bsod but later it was fixed with some windows update. I have no idea when that was though. Btw I didn't even know that avast/avg was based in the czech republic LOL

Oh man oh man. I really am old. I was using Windows ME at that time. A lawyer gave me a pirated copy of XP the next year I think. It was fascinating - that blue tinted drag window, the colors. The fact that it wouldn't crash ever. ME was fine, it was better than people say, but obviously half assed DOS support and slower than 98. But you knew if you ran it all day long you might get a BSOD, depending on what you were doing and how much you dared to have open at once. Not in XP land, no. XP would slow down but it just wouldn't crash. That was one thing I remember about it being different. And now it is time for me to digress. The future? Eh, not really sure. Windows 7 is...ugh...tolerable. But it's pretty bad. For me personally lack of certain video techologies like NVENC, x265, AV1 are a big drag in XP. It's also lame that new hardware just won't have drivers. So there's that performance cap. And let's be real, soon nothing new will run in it and eventually no browser will be worth fighting with on-line. So for me it's a schism. It's a beautiful OS, for me kinda the definitive Windows, if not 98/ME. But eventually I'll have to have one system to do actual work and the XP one will be for playing around in sandbox. That to me is very sad, but also to be expected.

The reason behind the download link not working is not the translation. BWC has transferred all its files to another server, which has everything you need to download : http://win2k.org/wlu/wluen.htm

It does vex me a lot when climate activists go after Western countries and yet are utterly silent elsewhere. A month before Greta Thunberg went to the and said "'Build Back Better,' blah blah blah," China made plans to build 43 new coal-burning power plants. I'd really like to see more work on thorium reactors. There is a lot of good to say about that technology, the only real drawbacks being cost to develop the infrastructure. Not to mention the taboo over nuclear power in general, even though compared to traditional nuke plants thorium reactors would be much safer. California last year and Texas this year both demonstrated how reliance on just solar and wind energy can and will come back to haunt such societies. And while having batteries to store energy generated by solar and wind would definitely help when there's disruptions or unexpected demand, I still think you're going to need a source of stable energy to bootstrap everything.

First time I read this I skipped over few of first comments on first page. I agree with that I am aware of those but feels as important to make consumertards realise they are doing it wrong by buying cheap stuff made on those polluter countries that is on bin all the time. Why it is Finland fault and our job to drop whole planet emissions to make our life actually hell. We have recycling and even got standardised bottle recycling, traditional Finnish culture outside hippy consumertards is to use stuff until it fails and then try repair it, average car engine size here is 2.5l max unless van pickup or muscle car, we make houses energy efficent, we use wood and peat for heating that are renewable unlike they say. There has been even research to use waste from farms or other waste to produce energy but no since it is better to be hysteric and riot and like bunch of kids. Does asian or eastern countries or other actual polluters have recycling system? No. Do they have renewable energy? No lot of non renewable sources like coal and nuclear power (didn't fukushima or chernobyl taught anything?). How much do they consoom brand new stuff. As far as I know on china iPhone is popular because Apple got CCP approval by giving them access to data centres on china. And iPhones are pretty much worst waste and pollution producer since anti repair practises. So yeah I understand why it is my fault now by trying extend equipment lifespan, recycling, not buying useless things and those so called polluters are innocent. Ok that went into sarcasm, but you get the point. Why we who produce almost none pollution or emisisons need to to make our life into hell? We need heating, we need reliable vehicles during winter and we need power backup other than batteries in case bigger grid failure. We cannot cut those totally. I blame social media for this since that seems where most of this happens. Go and look FBIbook or twatter for topics about it without account (disclaimer I wont be responsible for lost braincells for reading them) I guess some enjoy hysteria no matter what

Dave-H, you can replace two files in the Firefox folder C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox mozavcodec.dll и mozavutil.dll These are old basilisk files they are suitable for Firefox 52. There is a H264 decoder, there is no need for a plugin "Primetime" and the CPU does not load heavily.

I second this. Noscript for clickjacking and XSS protection and Umatrix (nmatrix on me) for rest. Umatrix is also good way learn how web works. My bank needs only main site and subsite js to be enabled. Rest like google stuff is useless. And I wonder why in world does bank use third party provider scripts that can cause major security issue if vendor gets compromised. If js is not blocked malicious script can steal password or even do transactions in theory

@mixit - Thank you for the warmth of your welcome! I'm not much of a coding expert, so it is very difficult for me to help on the programming front. If I had to propose something (and this is assuming all else fails), I actually thought someone in the Github discussion had a decent idea with forking from 52ESR and then pulling applicable patches from Waterfox. There should be plenty of applicable patches, not only from Waterfox but other Mozilla/Gecko-compatible projects, that could be used to enhance and extend 52ESR (such as the recent cubeb_winmm.c overflow fix [THANK YOU, SIR!!!] that fixed the infamous '23:18' bug with audio/video playback). If I'm not mistaken (and anyone who has more knowledge, please correct me if I'm wrong), 55.0a1 is the last Gecko codebase with a possibility of being forked for XP, as it came very shortly before the Rust requirement was introduced. So 52ESR and 55.0a1 might both be good starting points...it's all a matter of whether we want the older, longer-supported 52ESR which has more security patches and a variety of other updates, or 55.0a1 which should be a little bit more compatible with the modern web. Just something to consider...I hope this helps, and again this is assuming the worst case scenario happens (but it ain't over 'til it's over!)

Thank you for bringing this up! This always irked me too. I always ended up disabling the display driver helper service after setting up dual monitors. Edit: You WILL need to brute force the INF file in order to work as Blackwingcat does, otherwise it will tell you there is no file that contains any information on your hardware, so it pretends not to see it However, last official drivers? Which drivers are you using? I'm just curious. As I was poking around tonight, I discovered a gem, a very interesting gem that even Blackwingcat doesn't have on his blog. While he may have unofficial drivers on his site, I found a very recent (um, 9 years ago recent lol ) NVIDIA driver that actually DOES officially support Windows 2000. https://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp-257.21-whql-driver.html https://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp-258.96-whql-driver.html (Discovered after posting this, true last official NVIDIA Windows 2000 release) Really? An official 2xx.xx driver from NVIDIA? Why, yes it is! How many people know about this? If you have a Quadro, you're in even better position for a newer driver! https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/25619/en-us Whaaaaaa????? An OFFICIALLY LISTED Windows 2000 driver!!!! However, it only lists Quadros as supported and NOT GeForce. The files are a bit smaller in this release as well but it leaves me wondering if we can break into these drivers and mod them to support newer things. I think I'm a lot more impressed by the GeForce/Quadro release. And no, there is no need for unofficial kernels either, it works on vanilla Win2k.These gems are hard to find because of the way the driver search works, it really doesn't want you to find these older drivers, nor are they even on the older archive page. So I'd really suggest grabbing it while you can before it so happens to disappear. The best card these drivers can support are a GTX 480 which I don't think is anything at all to sneeze at. And yes, it supports dual monitors out of the box too. Release 260.89 seems to be the first Windows XP exclusive driver, but interestingly enough keeps the win2kdualview in its driver file, so *it* may still work with a little bit of brute force. Edit: The INF file will not work without modding it like Blackwingcat does. Add/remove hardware complains there's no file that contains information on your hardware, like it pretends it doesn't exist. If I wasn't so happy with my current installation, I'd totally try it out. Maybe someone else with a sandbox wants to try it out? Heck, it's so close and supports all the same hardware, you could probably just copy the INF file from 258.96 and edit the header information for the 260.89 release and it would possibly still work? Although it seems to be the first driver pack that has the "new" layout in files/folders. No joke, no mods, straight off NVIDIA's website.