Thanks!

3d pinball space cadet will forever be the best pinball game

My current physical computer is weaker than your VM setup

I use Windows XP and Vista every day on different computers. Neither are online. The Vista machine runs several editing programs that I need that won't run on modern OS, and even if they did, I would never want to worry about having them update during use. The XP computer I run games from the early 2000s that I love to play. People seem to forget that until xp, most computers weren't online anyway. They're useful for way more than as a web browser.

To my recollection, Internet Explorer was only fully discontinued in August 2022 because it was so widely used back in the 2000s that many websites, online applications, databases, etc. relied on it. In some countries like China, it was more problematic because said countries switched off from IE6 later and hence apps were even more reliant on it, so Microsoft had to provide support for Internet Explorer 6 (released in 2001) until August 2016. Microsoft Edge has an "Internet Explorer mode" to accommodate legacy pages.

My aunt and uncle have a PC that runs XP. They use it to play music and handle their e-Load business. Their net cafe, back when it was still active, ran Windows 7 machines where kids would just go on the internet, play Dota 2 or League or (at least for one kid I saw way back then) emulate PSP games. Shame they never really maintained the net cafe, but they still have the store at least. That XP PC still has me amazed to this day.

I still have my old PC running XP pro, it had a 775 Pentium 4 HT originally, the mainboard now runs a core2 duo at 1066 fsb instead of its 1333 speed. I know XP inside out and it runs so fast on it and so nice to use and play my old 2002-2008 games

honestly, Windows XP is the only operating system I’ve used on a desktop that hasn’t died on me, and so I’ve just got three of them laying around as basically my daily drivers

I really.. really miss this time. Id love to be able to go back and experience 1 year of being a kid again and getting to grow up with windows 98/ME and XP, and the advent of the internet and all of that again... I truly miss the internet space of the 2000s... everything was just so.. marvelous. Awe inspiring. Magical. And the tech reflected it. With boot sounds and themes, eveeything invoked this sense of mysticism and magic.

Windows XP is very user friendly os.Thats why people used to it and Microsoft decided to stop supporting XP..✔💯

Mypal browser is a firefox based browser still maintained for Windows XP. The BEST Windows XP iso if someone really needs this OS, is the Integral Edition, service pack 3, with all the updates and patches preinstalled!

Windows XP was my biggest jam back then. Playing Rayman, Jumpstart, Math Blaster, and Lego Island, Loco, and Racers will forever have a place in my heart.

XP was an awesome upgrade. I remember attending a free MS event here in Dallas for the launch. Yes, MS had free events back in the day. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

XP will ALWAYS be my favorite version of Windows

The company I work for did a massive inventory unload of old computers and other stuff that have been sitting in storage for a long time. I saved from the bin a tower made in 2003, looked up every part and it was top of the line back then, dedicated video and everything. Something like $6000 in '03 money. Took it apart, cleaned it thoroughly, change the cpu paste, maximized the ram for that motherboard with 4 gb, it had 2. The only other modern upgrade is a 120 gb ssd, cause hard disks suck, especially 20 yo disks. Installed a 64 bit copy of Xp to use all ram and I've been gaming like a boss with old games since. Old games are a bitch to start on modern hardware and virtual machines don't offer the same experience. I even use an old 4:3 monitor, also saved from the bin with the tower. Had the option of taking a crt too, but 4:3 led is enough, same aspect ratio, a lot less space. ps: Forgot. Also changed for a new power supply. The original one died a long time ago.

Ahh so much nostalgia. Windows XP was the first OS I used my desktop computer with and I will always remember it the second to that being Windows 7

I have a full XP desktop I work on/play with as a fun hobby thing and I figured I'd leave a few notes. > I load big software on with a USB drive which I had no issues with, small stuff I just download to the machine > Ethernet works fine > It's not ungodly to find old graphics drivers for era appropriate cards. I personally have a GeForce 6600GT > go-to browser these days is called mypal, which is a Firefox fork. I don't sign into anything important on it but casual browsing is generally alright > Internet Archive has pretty much everything else you could ever need Overall it's actually still shockingly "usable" with some creativity, patience, and expectation management. Same goes for Vista which I still think is underrated

Windows XP has quite a community around it now. There are various projects that allow newer software on XP. I would recommend checking out One Core API. It’s a super neat project that allows you to run more modern software. With OCA, you can run a newer chromium fork called Supermium, which is made for Vista and 7. You can also use modern Firefox and even modern versions of chrome and edge as well. The OCA also allows you to use more than 4GB of RAM on the 32 bit version, which is super neat.

Windows 9.x did NOT run on top of DOS. DOS was the boot loader for 9.x. After initial boot DOS handed control over to the 9.x kernel and DOS remained resident for compatibility reasons.

It's more fun to run it on real hardware, which I have done. Granted, it is a bit more work to find drivers, but it feels so worth it after you get them all. I did it on a Dell Latitude D520, it is so good. Playing CS and Halo CE on it is great.

I'm still using windows XP in 2024, and with internet(online), with supermium browser, and with no antivirus, and it works everything normal. XP the best forever.

Thank you. I loved windows xp and those icons, a very nice look back for me.

I still use 2 XP desktops for various stuffs. One for file acquisition via distributed peers and another for various tasks not requiring online access (documents, image editing, subtitle script editing)... With a 3rd I used to have make DVDs.

The trouble with old browers on XP is that XP didn't support SSH2, which most webservers use today, so be prepared for some frustration. Other than that, you can still use it these days sort of, but you either need old hardware to run it (for lack of modern drivers) or a VM, which is nice if you want to run some legacy software that won't start on Windows 10/11, like many late 90s computer games.

There's a channel called Stig Aviation run by an aircraft mechanic. He showed off some computer setup on aircraft that still use Windows XP. They still use it because it's one of the most reliable operating systems around. Those computers are not connected to a network, so there's little threat of unauthorized access.

I do certain types of commercial/industrial mechanical work. I don't want to be specific for specific reasons BUT you will be absolutely shocked how much core municipal functionality is still running on XP.

I really wish you had opened some native apps like windows media player and more. Thank you for your time. I really enjoyed that.

Nese XP also ended of support after December 12, 2023 on professional x64 and x86 editions. Only ended of support yesterday: Nese XP SP4 (service pack 4), version 24H13. But, only stays Nese XP Home Edition and Nese Server 2003 until april

For my computer which is NOT on the internet, I use xp all the time - love it

Such great memories. I have used every version of Windows beginning with Windows 3.1...excluding versions Vista and version 8. At the time XP was the best version ever released up until that time. For some reason it doesn't seem that long ago that XP came out. I'm thinking my age has something to do with it. 🤣

I have been using Oracle VM Box for things like this. It is mainly for needed instrument software that will not run under Windows 11 past build 21H2,, or Windows 10. If initially was really frustrating sharing serial ports. It would share the serial port but the port lines were locked and not function on the VM. I did find that a shared USB to RS232 adaptor would share and work well. Then I used a Serial Port snooper program to figure out how those old programs did their thing talking to older UT instruments and was able to write my own programs in VB6 under Windows 11. As for Windows XP it works fine, but once used to the shortcuts and user GUIs in Windows 7, 10 and 11, it's hard to re-adapt to Windows 11 again.

The My Computer and Recycle Bin icons in XP are so much nicer than in 11.

I mean, if you just do some text editing with built in WordPad and notepad, draw with Microsoft paint and browse the internet, or code, it is a solid system. Only thing holding me back would be security as it no longer receive security updates.

Windows XP came with Internet Explorer 4 if I remember correctly. This was at the start or before CSS existed which is why so many websites look broken. This was during the browser wars days of Netscape and Internet Explorer before Firefox existed. The first version of Firefox looked totally different. Chrome only came about many years later. Back then, it was also JavaScript and/or VBScript running in the web browser, plus the fun of embedded Java applets. Advertisers back then also had tons of popups which got so out of hand that modern browsers block popup windows unless specifically opened by the user.

IIRC there was a significant improvement to XP once you installed SP3 (I think that was the last one that came before end-of-life). There was considerably improved hardware support, and especially on USB. It might have included several Internet-related improvements too.

Thx for sharing! Brings back memories

One of my backup machines still runs XP ( not on the network!) and it's a real BFTP! Instant nostalgia ! Still got DukeNukem 3D which occasionally gets played! What a laugh! Thanks for the video !

Man i loved XP, so much i didn't want to change it. I was so based on this OS.

I have very fond memories of using Windows XP Professional after I got it back in 2002 while I was working as a computer repair tech in a computer repair shop (no longer in business) about 25+ miles from where I live at. When I think of Windows XP, some of the games that immediately come to mind that I played during the XP era was Morrowind, World of Warcraft, Diablo II (with the Lord of Destruction expansion), Unreal Tournament 2003 (and later UT 2004), and working on various projects using Game Maker for fun. It was so much fun downloading and installing mutators and maps for UT 2K4, mods for Morrowind, and interface mods for World of Warcraft. I ended up upgrading to Vista when it released, though, and later OSes as they came out before eventually ending up with Windows 11 Pro where I am now. But, my fondest memories were definitely with using XP Pro. It was also very stable.

I know one of the machines at work still runs windows XP. A few of the have have Win2000, a few windows 7, and some windows 10. They are not connected to the internet, but are on the network as they report their status (if stopped, cycle time, etc)

i actually got a fujitsu amilo A1650G last year. since then, i figured, since i had it lying around, i could use it for school. its pretty slow, but it actually works perfectly fine and i can do my coding and computer class stuff with no problems (usually). windows xp, while impractical, is still totally usable.

You can setup a shared folder in the options. Click on Edit Virtual Machine settings and select the second tab "Options" Shared folders should be third one in the list. Think you need the VM Tools installed to enable. I was checking on a windows 3.11 machine I have setup but VM Tools doesn't seem to want to install.

This was a very fun video to watch, nostalgic even! That melody and layout,it was my first os I had on my first computer 😊Now watching this video on my MacBook Air M1 from 2020 ,have a nice day!

Few things. Last up-to date vanilla version of Windows XP is POSready 2009, special OS for terminals, that had security updates. Then there's KernelEX then allows running more modern apps to Win 2000 and XP, but been abandoned. Finally there's more newer successor One-Core-API which allows Win7 era software to run on XP, with DX 10 and 11 backported.

😄That Windows XP startup sound just brings back memories. Windows was fun in those days.

Im still using Windows XP sp3 to run my NewTek TriCaster Pro. The last iteration of the TriCaster with a Hardware Video Toaster. Its a live broadcast device made to do news, stringers, bottom thurds, 3d fly ins, virtual sets, all kinds of tv magic- on standard dedinition.

I also have licenced Windows XP Professional Service pack-2 (DVD original). It's installed on my SATA hard drive. Respect Windows XP ❤

Still using it today in 2024. Used for scanning documents and programming various 2-way radios. Storage of service manuals in .pdf versions. Quite useful still today and as long as it’s not on line it’s fine.

First used XP in about 2002 on an old Dell desktop my parents bought for the house. I don't remember the tech specs of that desktop at all. XP ran ok. I stopped using XP when I got my own Dell Inspiron desktop with Vista in 2007. Then upgraded that to Windows 7. I wanted a laptop so I bought a used Dell Latitude D620 with XP. I used that machine from about 2009 to 2011. Loved XP on that machine. That machine was incredibly fast and snappy. I noticed that as the hardware advanced, the overall performance of XP improved as well. XP on the Latitude laptop seemed like a whole other experience from the first desktop I had in 2002.

I finally came to love XP when they came out with SP3. It was a fav of all the OS's

Most of the time a virtual machine will let you share a directory that mounts on your VM. Edit: ES3 was designed before widescreen was a big thing on PC, so you have to use a different launcher like OpenMW to play it in widescreen

My husband still uses XP for his accounting programs! So sweet! I use it for Quake

Great videos enjoyed it, hope you grow as a content creator!

IDE drivers changed to handle events under multitasking operating systems in W2K and were modified slightly for WXP. WXP had support for DVD drives and Zip drives connected via IDE. USB 2.0 support was interfacing IDE. I think I heard that Sea Monkey browser works. Modern websites requires HTML 5 and CSS 3 and no older browsers do.

Using win xp to play some old games.

I installed xp on my old pc (just for science) and it worked pretty well. The browser updated and works very good is mypal browser. Good video

I still use it. On my old Dell Dimension 4400.

Memorable things about this OS 1. Exploring my childhood photos even my Family's photos and videos on File Explorer 2. Playing GameHouse Games that was installed on Laptop 3. Enjoying DVD Movies 4. Surf the Internet (on Internet Cafe) 5. Doing my School Stuff I probably find if This Windows was also the bridge of Ability to understand English

I still have my 20 year old HP machine still running the Windows XP it was shipped with. I still use it for some applications and older games that are not compatible with newer Windows versions. It can still access the internet and the final version of Netscape and the first of Firefox are still installed. Of course, I am very careful not to go online for anything other than to see if I can still do it.

Legacy Update still provides a way to download all the updates that Microsoft offered up until their last official update, which include drivers and such.

I still use Windows XP daily on my main computer. The computer is running 24/24 😀. With an I5 3gen/ 32 GB fully recognized. And Windows is running integrally in ramdisk. It's pretty fun.😊 And it's XP sp2...Twenty years without updating...It's a pretty good run 😋. It's not by nostalgia, or because I'm too old to handle a newer os. I often use Linux Mint, Debian, Win7, Win 10, Win11...It's just because it's my prefered OS. Reliable, no time to lose in updates, no useless app, no permanent online connection by the system, highly customizable. Not shiny but efficient UI.

We used XP as our home PC from 2001 until 2015 when my dad decided to bin it due to lack of use and freeing up space in home (it was located under the staircase to master bedroom). The cybercafes near me has computers run on XP.

TFTP server is a great way to get files and programs over to xp with relatively minimal issue.

There is a service pack 4 that includes all the official updates as well as some tweaks done by the person who did it and I think if you also use a firewall it'd be fairly secure

15:39 there is an option to skip certain things during installation but there is always a tour of windows xp on the start menu

Im still using Windows XP home edition on a 2001 dell 8200 desktop.😊

I miss XP. Recently put 7 on an old laptop of mine and had a bit of a hassle just getting drivers on it as a lot of them are practically lost media at this point. I could only imagine XP having even more driver issues.

And say what you want about Windows Me...but the Upgrade version built on top of a solid copy of 98SE was flawless. I deployed dozens of Me machines back in that era and they ran for months at a time with no issues.

I think I installed XP on my (customised) BSD's virtualbox around a month ago before you did. I faced the same problem with IE, I couldnt open any modern website except google, and few others. I tried ftp, but "secure" ftp (sftp) were not loading up. So I created a local ftp server at home, saved the firefox there, and accessed that firefox through ftp in the IE. Thats how I was able to install firefox.

I still use a Thinkpad R52 with XP to copy music to my mini disk Sony player… it’s a great OS, love to turn the Thinkpad on from time to time

one thing i absolutely loved of Xp was it didn't have file indexing so finding a file didn't take a week as it does now!

I'm 100% sure that 2022 was when IE finally disappeared. I remember because my work was still using IE11 in 2022, then I went off sick over the summer for a round of eye surgery. When I came back from sick in the autumn time the work machines no longer had IE. It was now Chrome and Edge. Some great throwbacks in this video and scary to think that I was only half my age when XP came out!!

Neat to see the history. I only used windows for a month before switching to Mint Cinnamon, but I can appreciete the history of the most common home OS.

i still have my old half height optiplex xp machine my dad brought home after the place he worked at closed. last year i upgraded the original 75gb hard disk to a 1tb ssd, maxed out the ram, and upgraded the graphics card the the fastest one that would fit. the original graphics card was some onboard thing by intel and it wasn't very good. now it can play crysis with reasonable fps. for browsers i recommend opera. it feels faster than the others ive tried and sites like youtube work well on it especially if you can get an adblocker set up which also still works even today

I'd say Office 2007 should still work reasonably well if you could find a copy. You might have to activate it by phone though if that was already a thing (I went straight past 2007 so I don't know whether you already had to activate it online). USB flash drives work on an actual XP machine, I successfully used a 64 GB drive bought in December 2023 but did need to install drivers from the XP CD. The funniest thing was that every time I installed drivers from the CD Windows gave me a very stern warning that the drivers hadn't passed the Windows Logo Test and were potentially unsafe to install. I wouldn't really say CPU speed was still measured in MHz when XP was common. The first XP machine I got my hands onto (brand new in June 2003) was a 2.8 GHz AMD CPU and while that was a top-spec machine at that time, CPUs certainly didn't get slower during XPs lifetime. I did run XP on a 900 MHz AMD Athlon Thunderbird (a computer originally built with Windows 98) but that was really pushing the machine's limits, especially with only 128 MB of RAM. On a funny side note, as a native speaker of German the English tendency of pronouncing Windows ME like a word always trips me up. In German everyone I've met so far pronounces it as em-ee.

Nice tour of XP, it was the best Windows version ever besides 7. Windows 10 is the last Windows version, as we used to know it and still the best too. I really don't feel to upgrade to Windows 11 and later to version 12. I still have 21 months of enjoying Windows 10. After October 14th 2025, what can we do with the version 10? I will switch to Linux Mint by then.

I remember xp being frustrating to use in 2014 due to a lack of support from browsers and software like java. This will be interesting 10 years later

I am an IT technician and I've always used the business versions of MS products, the NT side of things. I used to 'downgrade' XP machines to Windows 2000 Professional because Windows 2000 was actually a lot more stable and reliable as well as being faster than the 32-bit version of XP. I really liked that you mentioned the 64-bit version of Windows XP. I personally ran the 64-bit version of XP and it's actually very different to the 32-bit version. You mentioned MS having separate consumer and business operating system versions which in some ways has continued. The 32-bit version of XP followed on from the Win 9x series and the 64-bit version of XP was the next business OS. The two versions, although being called 'XP' are quite different. In particular, the 64-bit variant is a LOT less buggy and more stable and reliable than the 32-bit version which is why my 32-bit systems got Windows 2000 Pro and the 64-bit systems got XP 64-bit. The only real negatives about XP 64-bit are the occasional difficulty in sourcing drivers and badly-written 32-bit software not working correctly. The 64-bit version was (apart from the activation nonsense) pretty much the best 64-bit OS from MS with incredible reliability, stability and lack of issues, even compared with later offerings.

I remember on the old hard drives - I could go to a sit down restaurant and eat while it finished the installation . Bet it went fast with the new tech in the build ...

I just came across your channel and thought this is cool, I just installed my own copy of windows XP Pro on my 7 year old's first laptop. Hey, don't judge me, I have had it laying around since 10 came out. Anyways, I just wanted to mention a feature I sorely missed, and found a workaround not long ago for Aero, for my windows 10.

with vmware tools you can drag and drop files from your downloads to the vm, same thing with oracle virtualbox

I'd love to make a windows xp mod as an art project! I'd put files for users to explore and maybe even a point and click game. Those bootlegs like gold edition may be bloatware and tacky but it's a genuine art form with lots of potential. I was inspired by a "horror edition" mod that unfortunately is a virus instead of "operational bootleg".

But did you know there are already many people that have actually tried to change different settings which are the kernels of the OS that makes the programs you downloaded, thinking that the OS is still supported and so it would let you install new versions of programs without any problems

Installing this on an old Athlon K8 64, XP machine (HP I think) to use as a Emulation machine for C64, Amiga etc! Just waiting on a VGA to HDMI cable to arrive tomorrow! Still have the 17 inch BENQ monitor, but at my age do not want a hernia!

That profile pic. Man. That takes me back.

Seeing XP for the first time had taken my breath away. The only OSs I had used till then were DOS, 3x, 95, and 98. The looks/graphics of XP was more than amazing for us. But because of the growth in technology, after seeing visuals of any OS after that makes me say "meh" .

Yes of course you can still use it today. Maybe not on the latest hardware but anything untill 2013 runs fine with it. Windows XP does all the stuff it did before. The only thing which requires a bit of a workaround is the internet or rather the browser. Just set up a Windows Terminal Server VM and remote login to that for a modern browser (maybe link the downloads directory to a network share). Or just set up a small linux VM with a modern browser and use VNC or whatever (and also link the downloads directory to a network share). Anything else like Word Processing, Photos, Videos, Music and so on works just fine.

I would definitely use Windows XP again, with a very reputable and updated antivirus software program installed, making sure that updates from Microsoft are turned off. The main reason for myself, would be for the use of Windows Media Player to playback music files collected over the last 25 years. 😊👍👌💯

I still use XP on my big box PC but have 10 on my laptop, i have so much good audio programs from that era i would hate to loose them

Hey man, Amazing video! I just had one question. How did you add files in the iso? I am thinking of trying a few os's so that would help me out.

Make sure you update that to AT LEAST SP2, and preferably SP3. As someone who lived through that era. XP SP2 was almost a new operating system, and a lot of software requires at least that or later. The Microsoft Catalog should still have the download links for those.

It's 2024-02-01 and I STILL use Windows XP on my vintage 1998 Inspiron 7500 which I've upgraded long ago to 40 gb of Disc Storage and 512 KB of RAM. Use it daily with applications MicroSoft Access and PostgreSQL 8.4.3. Also use EXCEL and Word and Visio. Don't use the internet but use it on my home network.

I use XP daily. Except going internet... had to stop it when Avast stopped supporting it last year. But before that, 2023, I had no problem surfing on information highway with XP 😐

The blue screen of death brings in nostalgia

This takes me back, I spent so much time on this OS in the 2000’s. Our family Compaq system we got brand new Christmas of 2002 had XP and it stayed that way until it was too old to use in 2012. I used it for music, burning CDs and flash games and my grandma used it to play casino games. AOL dial up was our only way to get online until 2008. Lol. 20 minutes to download a song.

My grandfather still has it in his samsung computer and I was shocked when I saw it in his old computer...

Well, I'm posting this using my XP-32 computer. 2015 hardware, Mypal 68, Flashplayer 31, (an adblocker), avast, and it runs like a demon. In a second tab, I'm streaming CNN; and in a third tab, I'm streaming MSNBC.

How did you activate Windows? You typically have 30 days but the licensing servers at Microsoft are no longer online for WinXP or Win 7. I still use both but I have a bootleg dealer copy of WinXP that does not need activation. I don't feel guilty at all because I legally own seven (7) copies of WinXP and can't activate any of them through Microsoft? Is there any way to activate a physical version we have. Note I do not run a VM nor do I want to. Just load XP from the CD/DVD to an SSD. This is for some old audio software then only runs on XP.

I still have a working copy because my synth doesn't want to save patches with future versions--even in compatibility mode. Opera browser seemed to work the last time I tried it but that was a couple years ago.

I'd say XP was the first decent version of Windows. there are some old apps that need it which is why I recently set it up in a VM. SP2 version is essential