I have not followed the scene for a couple years. Are there any replacement or shim DLLs available for enabling modern software to run on either Win XP or 2003? I'm only aware of KernelEx for Win98, the BlackWingCat's project and DLLs released for one or a few specific missing functions for some games (Crusader Kings), and to fix/extend xp SP1 (EncodePointer) and SP2. I'm looking for small updates that are safe and easy to copy to an existing system, not gigabyte compilations.
 

This seems to work best:

https://github.com/tumagonx/xompie/

A wrapper that allows XP/2003 to run some newer NT6 stuff that BWC kernel for win2k can also run, I believe, like Blender 2.79b.

There are a few others, like Dibya's ExtendedXP, One-Core-API, and BWC's Extend Kit for XP/2003 but they are buggy, not very advanced and/or contain non-redistributables.

Edited March 5, 20206 yr by win32