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This is the usage share on January 2014 Windows 7 47.46% Windows XP 29.30% Windows 8 6.62% Windows 8.1 3.94% Windows Vista 3.30% And this is the usage share on February 2014 Windows 7 47.31% Windows XP 29.53% Windows 8 6.38% Windows 8.1 4.30% Windows Vista 3.10% While Windows 8/8.1 increased its market share by 0,12% (10,56% ---> 10,68%), Windows XP increased its market share by 0,23%, almost double than the latest OS :w00t:

While the marketshare of Windows 8(.1) increased by 0.09 %, in the same period Windows XP increased its marketshare by 0.25% And in this period you see around the net people saying "Let's kill it! It's too obsolete!" Do they really think that everybody is dumb enough to switch to Windows 8?

ReactOS is not a bad project, but before they think of going out of alpha stage, they should improve massively the stability of the system. It should react as a real NT kernel, not like a 9x kernel. When a program stops installing or working, it must not take away the entire system with a BSOD. It's frightening to see a blue screen when starting Word 2000.

It would be wise to write to the developers of the programs, as well as writing into the forums, etc. and ask to keep support for XP.

Last version of Winamp (5.666.3516) works fine in Windows 2000. With the latest KDW, just select Windows XP as OS and select "Fake registry". In this way you can fool the installer Edit: added image

With the near-ending support to XP I'm looking around for updating my system. I know Windows 7 SP1 is surely better than Windows 8/8.1, but I'd like to know if It's possible to scrap the idiotic and toyish Modern (and many other useless features) from source install to make the system faster and behaving like the older Win 7.

Try to disable the hyperthreading from the BIOS and check if your problem is solved.

After ages of time (better late than never, though), I have installed a modded BIOS in my netbook, with the same id, "NAV50" and the same version (v. 1.26), and seems that with this modded bios I can turn off Speedstep to overcome the lack of this technology inside Windows 2000 to install it. http://www.flickr.com/photos/manocao/6852238075/in/set-72157629259854465/lightbox/ Am I right? Edit: Still hangs when disabling Geyserville. I will stay in XP.

The latest version of Winamp which support Windows 2000 is 5.63 (June 28, 2012). I'm wondering if the latest version 5.666 build 3516 can run in Windows 2000.

I'm still using this netbook. Is it possible to integrate the Speedstep drivers with nLite?

@tomasz86 This motherboard http://www.ebay.it/itm/CPU-PROCESSORE-PENTIUM-D-DUAL-CORE-925-SCHEDA-MADRE-775-4GB-RAM-DDR3-/120942141888?pt=CPU_per_PC_e_Server&hash=item1c28b6a1c0 is good for Windows 2K, right?

There is some motherboard which I can buy from eBay to upgrade my old desktop pc? It had this motherboard http://www.ebay.it/itm/SCHEDA-MADRE-CPU-INTEL-PENTIUM-II-2-350Mhz-RAM-128mb-Video-Audio-integrato-USB-/251141714853?pt=Schede_madri_per_PC_e_Server&hash=item3a793673a5 with these port sets http://bayimg.com/KABamaAEN I have substituted this motherboard with a more recent one which mounts an AMD Athlon XP 1700+. It has the same port sets as the old one. Can I upgrade again the motherboard?

I have decided to keep the service anyway.

In some way would be possible to play MP3 without the idiotic "Audio Service" added in XP. Without it, the audio card worked fine in Windows 2000. P.S.: When the people at Microsoft created Windows Vista, they added another idiotic service, "Audio Endpoint Service", then they added a useless dependency.

I don't have any problem with the audio. I want to have, in Windows XP, the same behaviour which Windows 2000 has.

Seemingly all, what is different may be the result of the check (i.e. a warning or "nothing"). This is logical, *everything* is checked and what passes the check is considered "kosher", whilst everything that *somehow* doesn't pass the check triggers the warning. See the article, the attempted to be installed program was TOR (which I don't think comes in a Metro "nameless crap interface" version, and it seemingly hosted on it's homepage: https://torproject.org/ and not on any "store"). jaclaz I like TOR. It's very useful for me to bypass some idiotic blockades added from 2005 in Italy. If someday I'll have a new computer, I'll ask a downgrade to Windows 7. I don't want to get spied when using this program.

Hello everybody, Back in the days, when the people at Microsoft were creating the Windows Whistler, the use of mp3s was growing all over the world, thanks to Napster (it died only one month before Windows XP was RTM'd), and I don't know why they added the dumb "Audio Service" in XP when in Windows 2000 was absent. So I'm here to find a way to remove the "Audio Service" while keeping the sounds, like in Windows 2000.

Anyone read these articles? Not only Windows 8 mess up your current installation, but seems it is spying the customers. http://gizmodo.com/5937649/windows-8-tells-microsoft-about-everything-you-install-not-very-securely http://www.withinwindows.com/2012/08/24/thoughts-on-the-windows-smartscreen-scare/

I'm changing the title of the topic. Instead of "Athlon 64" I'll write "Athlon XP".

This Windows will be an huge failure. I bet that will reach only the 15% of the operating systems market before Windows 9, less than Vista in the same lifetime. Until Windows Server 2003 they were doing the right things. From the Longhorn Milestones, the developers began to screw up the OS, and they gave to the world an over-bloated Vista. With SP2 the OS runs better, but the operating systems after Server 2003 never reached the level of performance of XP. Nowadays most computers are screwed up with Windows 7. After some time the new computers become slower because of the OS. The things are far worse than six years ago. Sooner, if this Sesame Street edition became a success, we'll say goodbye to the personalization of the OS. I hope that Apple and Windows 8 will fail onto the water. The first because for me is the ruin of information technology, with the useless iPhone and iPad. The second because the Micro$oft began to impose that "modern" interface. P.S.:What the hell is this new Micro$oft logo? Every children can do those squares on Paint. I miss the old "flag" of Windows 9x and 2000.

All the different OS types (retail, oem, enterprise, embedded) while they can be basically similar, the real differences between them is how they can be used. If there are some software incompatible with this XP variant, I'll report them. Edit: Seems that many programs can be installed without problems. But now I'm returning to the normal XP, because the temperature of the diode jump up, for example, from 82° C to 84° C in a second. When the XP variant doesn't work, the temperature jump down, for example, from 83° C to 81° C in a second. Although the diode doesn't go over 90° C, it's better to "relaxing" it

My bad. I wasn't sure if the Athlon 64 has all the requirements.

I'm using Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 right now on my netbook. It runs faster than XP, the installation is only 700 MB with the basic programs which are present on XP, every driver works fine. Why the Micro$oft doesn't do OSes like this one?

This is a bad move from Micro$oft. I think that there will be a class action, or a lawsuit, because Windows XP is still supported until that date. Someone at Micro$oft should get fired.