The creator of the Windows NT task manager has a channel, and quite a series of adventures getting Space Cadet running on all kinds of machines it was never intended to. Non-Intel hardware, an explanation for why a 64-bit version wasn't released, and so forth. "Dave's Garage" - I can highly recommend him.
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 computer hasn't been connected to the Internet for around 5 years and still is running windows 7 and still has Internet explorer, but I think if I manage to get it online it would update to Microsoft Edge since Internet explorer is outdated now
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.
I'm using hp pc '02 with win 98 & excel, do you use a compatible printer, my problem hp printer 845c wont except nonhp 15 & hp 17 cartridges, the advice on utube didnt work on overriding it. So just looking for printer to use with my pc & its offline.
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
It’s the last OS that made any sense to me. Still have it too but when trying to clean up and scan I dl some type of virus that disables keyboard 🫡 adios amigo
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!
@t.j.813 TH-cam : works well Normal browsing : works most of the time Facebook : I never actually tried, but it should be pretty okay Just note that most browser games won't work
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Currently using old Dell laptop with XP as NFS- server for communication with DMU-70 v milling machine. It is the bridge between work network. Programming stationDell LaptopDMU-70v
Hey mate. Sorry to bother you, would you be able to help me setup windows xp for a workstation I have that runs pissss poor using windows 11? I'd really appreciate it
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.
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'd buy an old PC that was in the same lineup as the original PC I used back then. It was a Gateway MFATXPNT, not sure about the exact model. It eventually got upgraded to Vista and then 7 (that means the CPU ran at at least 1 GHz and had at least 1 GB or RAM!) but got liquid damage but my family still has the original hard drive.
If only it were that simple! What makes XP still viable in a sense is as a musician and adequately skilled producer in the studio side of the industry, when you run a DAW on XP with various hardware there is never latency. You can plug in quite literally 10 pieces of outboard audio hardware running at the same time through various connection technologies and nothing will lag out or glitch up. *This means if I were to open a commercial studio based on the small scale local economy, I could genuinely use $800 worth of equipment including a dated used workstation and have rather extravagant capabilities that would cost a good 10 or 15 grand if pursued using Windows 11. I could still have the most advanced of analog to digital and vice versa conversions as well as bitrates and well beyond. Ideally, such a concept would still rely on having a Windows 11 based machine in real time alongside it for at least editing, mixing and encoding the audio produced by XP. Using an 11 based machine and current most hardware to do a few instruments at once wouldn't cost a fortune, but large scale setups that some musicians will have definitely would, and even with a low 5 figures of 2024 equipment, you're still likely to have very serious limitations and bugging if you tried to run and record a dozen heavyweight processes at once. *10 years ago, I still had XP machines as well as partitions due to the hardware advantages for my references needs but fell out of the habit due to the software advancements and far more specifically, the fact that I'm not running a commercial recording and sound studio.*
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 !
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
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.
According to Wikipedia it was IE6. IE5 was still firmly Win 9x, Windows 98 SE even came with IE 4. Firefox 1.0 was released in 2004, shortly after XP and only a few years later it had become pretty popular.
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.
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)
Hmm, that somehow sounds familiar.... Let me guess. They are mostly running some SCADA software on an industrial site, right? Is it a nuclear power plant, maybe? Disconnected from the Internet for security, but to keep them up to date or reconfigure them you can always use floppies, CDs, or even USB drives! 😉
This video introduced me to your channel, I'll be watching plenty more. It makes me nostalgic, even for things I didn't experience, so mission success!
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.
There is a browser that supposedly works in XP but I think compatibility is a little iffy. You could study cybersecurity and do your own security updates. I'm sure there are at least a couple dozen people out there crazy enough to use a security patched version of XP on a daily driver
Because that’s the same. Editing some code on an outdated computer is as difficult and dangerous as getting a degree in nuclear physics and running a nuclear power plant solo. You heard it here first, folks. Don’t code
I still have an XP system I built in 2006. SLI, Dual raid HDD, twin GeForce 880Oc's Max 4 Gig Memory. I tested it recently with 3D Mark software and it still out performs 99% of computers today. Though it sounds like a 747 with all the fans running. lol
@@kilgorezer well if it did it didn't slow down the search because i would type in *.mp4 and boom! all the videos where there insistently. I didn't have to do this crappy thing where i type the name of the file and then click search options then videos it's sucks in 10 and 11
@@MrEthanhines Could also be that Windows XP uses smaller hard drives on average, and it was just faster overall. Edit: Windows 10 and 11 have too much bloatware pre-installed.
@@kilgorezer i’ve scaled back all the bloatware in win10 and it still takes 24hrs to index the 500GB drive. *then* it’s fast but before the indexing? forgetaboutit
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.
Recently learned to install a virtual machine to use windows xp for old games. Once I loaded up windows xp in the vm I giggled to myself like a maniac reminiscing of my early 20s fooling around d with net zero and playing those games on original hardware. What’s nice is I can use it to go back thru old save files and check any extensions that have given me issues on newer windows to see if I want to try figuring out how to save them. All in all it’s giving me a nice rekindle of a os I enjoyed and yes I too am thinking of getting hardware from about 2006/07 to make an xp gaming machine to enjoy those old titles. And no it will never connect to the internet lol. The hard part is figuring out what parts to buy from that era or if prebuilt were decent back then and if I can find deals on old high ends from the era.
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
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.
Windows XP was the beginning of the end for Microsoft as it accomplished their goal on uniting both their consumer and business customers under one kernel while also being TOO GOOD that affected Windows Vista and beyond.
you might have to remake this! in just a few days win32 is gonna launch supermium for xp! which brings real chrome 121 to XP, Vista, & even 2000 (coming soon)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!!
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.
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.
I have several specific use WinXP virtual machines that I run under Linux. One thing I love about this setup is that I can suspend the machines and pick up later right where I left off w/o waiting for the boot sequence.
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 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. 😊👍👌💯
*11:33** IE 11 can load modern websites, but doesn't support most (if not all) of the modern CSS and JS libraries* 13:55 such old games usually had a software renderer which drew all graphics with the CPU so no drivers are necessary.
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.
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 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.
I have installed XP with the SP4 that some guy made. Installed Supermium web browser and UBlock. Works perfectly! It also runs all my favorite software without any problems at all.
The first modern OS! This is the only os that you can use on any machine that is capable of running it. And if you are familiar with the older Windows versions you'll definitely appreciate the seamless "out of the box" USB support. That comes very handy a LOT! Definitely a step-up from the fiddly floppy boot disk 😂😂😂
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.
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.
Fun fact: Windows XP a few years after its release I believe in 2004 or 3 it comprised of *84 percent* of the market of softwares, one of the most successful computer softwares of all time
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 😐
I got a real computer with Windows XP. Single core AMD64 CPU, overclocked by 12%, 2 GB RAM and an ATI Radeon 9600. It works perfectly for things of its age. Firefox loads for ages, maybe because of its bad memory management but once it's done flash sites that still operating works perfectly. It can decode 720p AVC videos without issues. Old versions of software works too so you can do all the image, sound and video editing, word and spreadsheet processing you did back in the day. And you can get Automatic Updates working, MS still hosts them, you just have to use a proxy to redirect the calls there. It will only install the updates until the official end of support day though, you have to download and install post-eos updates (like the WannaCry patch) manually. But the best part is gaming. Old games just work from their original disk without any unofficial patch or crack and no lag or other issues VMs cause.
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.
I was able to find display drivers for my 2003 Vaio laptop. I just installed 7 on a friend's old HP A6 laptop and there are some issues you have to deal with. You pretty much have to disable user account control to install anything that doesn't have a Windows 7 security certificate, which included legacy graphics drivers direct from AMD. I couldn't get the media card reader to work but everything else is functional, in spite of the fact the laptop originally shipped with 8. Drivers were still available on the Sony and HP websites, respectively. I don't run into too many driver issues with XP. They're out there and it is easier than with 7 because XP is a very insecure OS by comparison. There really isn't any user account control, at least not as we know it today. SP3 has drivers for pretty much anything made up to mid 2008 or so, which is why I heard the XP install music for the first time last year when installing XP SP3 on a LGA775 machine. It even installed a driver for the dual 7800GTX GPUs. I'm just glad Microsoft ditched the whole idea of having the OS completely locked down to unsigned drivers because it is a PITA. Don't forget to hold that shift key when you restart the PC in the middle of the GPU driver installation in 7...
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@@Nostalgic9080 Xp's my daily driver
3d pinball space cadet will forever be the best pinball game
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Amen, Im using Linux nowadays, even there is the Native Version of the game ported by the community, glad Im still playing it today.
The creator of the Windows NT task manager has a channel, and quite a series of adventures getting Space Cadet running on all kinds of machines it was never intended to. Non-Intel hardware, an explanation for why a 64-bit version wasn't released, and so forth. "Dave's Garage" - I can highly recommend him.
That was a fun game, Dad played it all the time when my stepmom got their first computer. Man that was years ago. Times were so much different.
I'm still playing it on Windows 11 in 2024
My current physical computer is weaker than your VM setup
whats vm
Mine also
I'm still using an i7-3770 (non-K). Not old by any means, but certainly not recent.
And XP runs natively without a hitch. Motherboard supports it.
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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.
I wonder, why is that "IE mode" if IE is still included in Win11?
when adobe shut off flash, the chinese railroad stopped working till their engineers got an older version.
Databases? No database should be reliant on a web browser.
My computer hasn't been connected to the Internet for around 5 years and still is running windows 7 and still has Internet explorer, but I think if I manage to get it online it would update to Microsoft Edge since Internet explorer is outdated now
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.
What editing programs do you use in your Vista Machine?
I'm using hp pc '02 with win 98 & excel, do you use a compatible printer, my problem hp printer 845c wont except nonhp 15 & hp 17 cartridges, the advice on utube didnt work on overriding it. So just looking for printer to use with my pc & its offline.
Data storage, gameees
i use windows 7 and everything works. spotify, youtube. everything.
@@archangelmusic13maybe im kinda old or nostalgic but by no means windows 7 is somewhat old
XP will ALWAYS be my favorite version of Windows
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
Most 9x games run on XP too.
It’s the last OS that made any sense to me. Still have it too but when trying to clean up and scan I dl some type of virus that disables keyboard 🫡 adios amigo
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!
So can I use Mypal still on XP SP3 on youtube, normal browsing and facebook?
@@t.j.813 If you still use Windows XP and you need a actively maintained, working browser, this may be your best option.
@@t.j.813yes, in theory. But please don’t it’s incredibly insecure on a os that went out of support 10 years back.
@t.j.813
TH-cam : works well
Normal browsing : works most of the time
Facebook : I never actually tried, but it should be pretty okay
Just note that most browser games won't work
Yes, and the website for Mypal works on IE6 too! (I made its website)
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.
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
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.
Where did you manage to get a 64-bit version of XP? I'm wanting to make an XP machine and I only got a couple of 32-bit versions.
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..✔💯
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
Using win xp to play some old games.
thinking of doing a small build just for this. & that's it with win 7
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.
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.
The windows install music was fucking life changing at the time
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.
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
Thanks I want to make a xp or 2000 desktop myself. And yes windows vista is super underrated. Windows 7 gets all the praise
Currently using old Dell laptop with XP as NFS- server for communication with DMU-70 v milling machine. It is the bridge between work network.
Programming stationDell LaptopDMU-70v
Hey mate. Sorry to bother you, would you be able to help me setup windows xp for a workstation I have that runs pissss poor using windows 11? I'd really appreciate it
I really wish you had opened some native apps like windows media player and more. Thank you for your time. I really enjoyed that.
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.
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.
Yea I want to do that eventually.
I'd buy an old PC that was in the same lineup as the original PC I used back then. It was a Gateway MFATXPNT, not sure about the exact model. It eventually got upgraded to Vista and then 7 (that means the CPU ran at at least 1 GHz and had at least 1 GB or RAM!) but got liquid damage but my family still has the original hard drive.
The last version of Firefox that works with Windows XP is 52.9.0 esr.
If only it were that simple!
What makes XP still viable in a sense is as a musician and adequately skilled producer in the studio side of the industry, when you run a DAW on XP with various hardware there is never latency. You can plug in quite literally 10 pieces of outboard audio hardware running at the same time through various connection technologies and nothing will lag out or glitch up.
*This means if I were to open a commercial studio based on the small scale local economy, I could genuinely use $800 worth of equipment including a dated used workstation and have rather extravagant capabilities that would cost a good 10 or 15 grand if pursued using Windows 11. I could still have the most advanced of analog to digital and vice versa conversions as well as bitrates and well beyond.
Ideally, such a concept would still rely on having a Windows 11 based machine in real time alongside it for at least editing, mixing and encoding the audio produced by XP.
Using an 11 based machine and current most hardware to do a few instruments at once wouldn't cost a fortune, but large scale setups that some musicians will have definitely would, and even with a low 5 figures of 2024 equipment, you're still likely to have very serious limitations and bugging if you tried to run and record a dozen heavyweight processes at once.
*10 years ago, I still had XP machines as well as partitions due to the hardware advantages for my references needs but fell out of the habit due to the software advancements and far more specifically, the fact that I'm not running a commercial recording and sound studio.*
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.
yes, using Supermium too. So far so good. Mypal68 was hanging with script errors in Amazon but Supermium runs just fine and faster too
Yeah supermium is good.. nice to hear that 😆
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.
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.
Thank you. I loved windows xp and those icons, a very nice look back for me.
Im still using Windows XP home edition on a 2001 dell 8200 desktop.😊
'using' it for what? 😆
@@robertwhitworth8352 retro gaming. But I don't game much like I use to. I have a few emulators and roms, that I play around with every now and then.
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
Using XP in 2024, can you use it? Sounds like you’re using it, wonderful! The video answered itself without even needing to watch it!
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.
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.
I remember downloading Windows 2000 on Kazaa.
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.
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 !
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
0:01 Hits so different om so many levels! 😌♥️
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.
And Javascript. IE's JS is so outdated it can't do almost anything these days.
According to Wikipedia it was IE6. IE5 was still firmly Win 9x, Windows 98 SE even came with IE 4. Firefox 1.0 was released in 2004, shortly after XP and only a few years later it had become pretty popular.
CSS was a thing in 1996
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.
0:00 Nostalgia BOMB. As per your name. Subscribed.
XP's startup is my most favourite one. They are mostly welcoming, soothing and relaxing when u just switch on the computer
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.
The My Computer and Recycle Bin icons in XP are so much nicer than in 11.
this comment is written in windows XP...
and replyed to in windows 10 (im the same person on the other account)
and this was his last comment, i hacked him
@@thfrussia6717 now hacker is killed by Cia... I am his undertaker
@@thfrussia6717 nope, i still have control of both accounts lol
Watching from Android to install windows xp
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)
Hmm, that somehow sounds familiar.... Let me guess. They are mostly running some SCADA software on an industrial site, right? Is it a nuclear power plant, maybe? Disconnected from the Internet for security, but to keep them up to date or reconfigure them you can always use floppies, CDs, or even USB drives! 😉
This video introduced me to your channel, I'll be watching plenty more. It makes me nostalgic, even for things I didn't experience, so mission success!
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.
There is a browser that supposedly works in XP but I think compatibility is a little iffy. You could study cybersecurity and do your own security updates. I'm sure there are at least a couple dozen people out there crazy enough to use a security patched version of XP on a daily driver
@@Lurch-Bot Sure, and you could study nuclear physics and you run a nuclear power plant by yourself.
Because that’s the same. Editing some code on an outdated computer is as difficult and dangerous as getting a degree in nuclear physics and running a nuclear power plant solo. You heard it here first, folks. Don’t code
@@kaminekoch.7465 nuclear power plants often run on xp, so you are technically correct
I still have an XP system I built in 2006. SLI, Dual raid HDD, twin GeForce 880Oc's Max 4 Gig Memory. I tested it recently with 3D Mark software and it still out performs 99% of computers today. Though it sounds like a 747 with all the fans running. lol
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!
But it did have file indexing...
@@kilgorezer well if it did it didn't slow down the search because i would type in *.mp4 and boom! all the videos where there insistently. I didn't have to do this crappy thing where i type the name of the file and then click search options then videos it's sucks in 10 and 11
@@MrEthanhines Could also be that Windows XP uses smaller hard drives on average, and it was just faster overall.
Edit: Windows 10 and 11 have too much bloatware pre-installed.
@@kilgorezer i’ve scaled back all the bloatware in win10 and it still takes 24hrs to index the 500GB drive. *then* it’s fast but before the indexing? forgetaboutit
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.
2:10 "Just with a crap ton of bugs and a bunch of features removed."
Oh, so Windows 11 basically, before Windows 11 existed. Pretty cool.
😄That Windows XP startup sound just brings back memories. Windows was fun in those days.
I still use it. On my old Dell Dimension 4400.
My husband still uses XP for his accounting programs! So sweet! I use it for Quake
I am 100% picturing Billy Bob Thornton from Bad Santa narrating this video in his Santa suit.
Recently learned to install a virtual machine to use windows xp for old games.
Once I loaded up windows xp in the vm I giggled to myself like a maniac reminiscing of my early 20s fooling around d with net zero and playing those games on original hardware.
What’s nice is I can use it to go back thru old save files and check any extensions that have given me issues on newer windows to see if I want to try figuring out how to save them.
All in all it’s giving me a nice rekindle of a os I enjoyed and yes I too am thinking of getting hardware from about 2006/07 to make an xp gaming machine to enjoy those old titles. And no it will never connect to the internet lol.
The hard part is figuring out what parts to buy from that era or if prebuilt were decent back then and if I can find deals on old high ends from the era.
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
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.
Windows XP was the beginning of the end for Microsoft as it accomplished their goal on uniting both their consumer and business customers under one kernel while also being TOO GOOD that affected Windows Vista and beyond.
That profile pic. Man. That takes me back.
Memories and happiness flows through my body when seeing Windows XP again. A time when people was excited about the future of technology,
you might have to remake this! in just a few days win32 is gonna launch supermium for xp! which brings real chrome 121 to XP, Vista, & even 2000 (coming soon)
Nice
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.
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 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
Windows XP is the best. A very robust & resourceful OS. Love it !
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.
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.
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!!
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
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.
Man i loved XP, so much i didn't want to change it. I was so based on this OS.
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!
Glad you enjoyed it!
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.
I have several specific use WinXP virtual machines that I run under Linux. One thing I love about this setup is that I can suspend the machines and pick up later right where I left off w/o waiting for the boot sequence.
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
My XP machine is in pieces, however I am still running Vista Premium and Windows 7 with little trouble. I'm a die hard. Nice show.
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 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. 😊👍👌💯
For my computer which is NOT on the internet, I use xp all the time - love it
Missing those legendary days😢
*11:33** IE 11 can load modern websites, but doesn't support most (if not all) of the modern CSS and JS libraries*
13:55 such old games usually had a software renderer which drew all graphics with the CPU so no drivers are necessary.
Also FF 52 is the last supported version for SP2 or SP3. Don't get an SP1.
(somehow this part was replaced by the one about SW renderers.
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.
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 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.
I have installed XP with the SP4 that some guy made. Installed Supermium web browser and UBlock. Works perfectly! It also runs all my favorite software without any problems at all.
What website did you get it from? Thanks
I got it to work on an old Core2 machine quite nicely. There is a reworked version of Chrome core called "Supermium" that works beautifully.
The first modern OS! This is the only os that you can use on any machine that is capable of running it. And if you are familiar with the older Windows versions you'll definitely appreciate the seamless "out of the box" USB support. That comes very handy a LOT! Definitely a step-up from the fiddly floppy boot disk 😂😂😂
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.
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.
Man!! I miss Windows 1995. 1998, NT, XP, Vista, and 8!! Not 2000 though. It was okay.
Fun fact: Windows XP a few years after its release I believe in 2004 or 3 it comprised of *84 percent* of the market of softwares, one of the most successful computer softwares of all time
Great videos enjoyed it, hope you grow as a content creator!
Thanks I hope so too
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 😐
I got a real computer with Windows XP. Single core AMD64 CPU, overclocked by 12%, 2 GB RAM and an ATI Radeon 9600. It works perfectly for things of its age. Firefox loads for ages, maybe because of its bad memory management but once it's done flash sites that still operating works perfectly. It can decode 720p AVC videos without issues. Old versions of software works too so you can do all the image, sound and video editing, word and spreadsheet processing you did back in the day. And you can get Automatic Updates working, MS still hosts them, you just have to use a proxy to redirect the calls there. It will only install the updates until the official end of support day though, you have to download and install post-eos updates (like the WannaCry patch) manually. But the best part is gaming. Old games just work from their original disk without any unofficial patch or crack and no lag or other issues VMs cause.
Slam an SSD on and Firefox will fly
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.
I was able to find display drivers for my 2003 Vaio laptop. I just installed 7 on a friend's old HP A6 laptop and there are some issues you have to deal with. You pretty much have to disable user account control to install anything that doesn't have a Windows 7 security certificate, which included legacy graphics drivers direct from AMD. I couldn't get the media card reader to work but everything else is functional, in spite of the fact the laptop originally shipped with 8. Drivers were still available on the Sony and HP websites, respectively.
I don't run into too many driver issues with XP. They're out there and it is easier than with 7 because XP is a very insecure OS by comparison. There really isn't any user account control, at least not as we know it today. SP3 has drivers for pretty much anything made up to mid 2008 or so, which is why I heard the XP install music for the first time last year when installing XP SP3 on a LGA775 machine. It even installed a driver for the dual 7800GTX GPUs.
I'm just glad Microsoft ditched the whole idea of having the OS completely locked down to unsigned drivers because it is a PITA. Don't forget to hold that shift key when you restart the PC in the middle of the GPU driver installation in 7...
Man!!! I miss Windows 1995, 1998, NT, XP home, Vista and 7!!! Not 2000. It's okay.