Windows XP Hold Out Thread

>>60828503
>intellimouse
I'm so mad I have a WMO atm

>>60828503
My office's printer is controlled by a winxp computer. I would upgrade, but the ancient ass printer's drivers don't work on anything else

>>60828503
Today I intalled an Xp for s friend

>>60828503
what hold out? this is still the most used-os still... i am using it for general shit. all my precious info is on my linux box - i have a shitty mac laptop with debian on it that i use to check my email or use ebay, etc. nothing personal is ever entered/inputed on windows.

if i didn't need dx12 for work i'd still be using xp right now

>>60828503
I still keep a Windows XP legacy system around for old games.

>>60828503
Install gentoo

POSReady 2009 reporting in

>>60828695
What is it you do that requires dx12? I wasn't aware it had any use other than gaymen

>>>ReactOS

>>60829817
Couldn't get it to install on my computer.

>>60828581
Ubuntu added support for magical plug and play printing. Shit is fire

>>60829069
XP is actually stuck in this weird middle ground where I'd rather have a 98 setup and 7 for normal use. There are a lot of 98 and older games but what game is begging for XP? All those pre-Vista games work just fine on 7.

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Enjoy WannaCry :^)

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>>60828503
had this around for a while as a file archiver and general use system but it got replaced by a loaded shitburst precision and a bunch of win2k systems

>>60832344
This. Do mind that new windows has that issue too though.

Considering buying a mid-2000s XP machine for vague nostalgia purposes.

Already regularly use a Thinkpad X60 for shit, but thinking of going even earlier.

>>60832344
memes aside that was patched on XP too

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Other than hardware, why not 7?

>>60835806
Because Vista and 8 exist.

>>60832344
Pull out the Ethernet cable.

No more WannaCry

>>60832344
WannaCry only wormed on Windows 7.

>>60835806

Devil's own lol

That iso leaked from intel...

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>>60828503
Windows 2000 running in a vm offline. Pretty nice for when it's windows time and old .exe's and command line stuff and no dll's.

>>60828503
I like to image that is a picture of your actual setup and you just also only have a camera from 2001 as well.

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>>60835806
lol, is it sad that I've practically memorized the product key

god damn, i was so poor

>>60836285
win2k is useless in VM mode

win7 32-bit is the better catch-all for random legacy shit. You can emulate floppy drives on the fly.

>>60835806
7 is REALLY bloated

updates are a mess. I mean just 1 GB of RAM doing nothing. what do you need all those freaking modules and processes for? trusted installer. svchost. ugh

and .net 3.5 is just a monstruosity.

8 is the reverse. it's great under the hood (even faster than 10), but an eye sore and (at first) unintuitive interface.

>>60836299
I feel you bro,but I did that back in the 98SE days

>>60836660
Do you know why it is so bloated? I've got a theory: That stuff is there to detect certain software - like LibreOffice, Firefox, etc. If such software is detected the computer automatically goes into hell-mode.

Think about it: You pay for software that you do not own (no source for ya!). What is the only thing that a software maker who sells you this software wants? It is that you think that free software sucks. Then you>>60828503 are bound to software from people who sell it to you - boom you got MS office. But that is not enough: Windows also has mechanisms to gradually slow down your computer over time. They will also try to demage your computer: They spawn processes that need 100% cpu power and abuse your (laptop) fan on purpose. They will write shittons of data to your harddisks and ssds.

And you will buy windows again, you do now switch to Linux or BSD - because free software sucks and you are used to MS office and Linux is for nerds.

>>60832349
>norja

>>60836660
>complaining about svchost on 7
Both 7 and 8 use them, its a generic process to host and run windows services, you're also wrong about everything else you said, stop exposing yourself as a brainlet talking about things you don't even understand

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>install xp to vm
>realize you spend much more time on xp then your actual os.

I don't understand what is wrong with xp it is perfectly fine. I can do anything.

>>60837331
If the 64-bit version of XP hadn't been declared "non-standard" everyone would still be running XP

>>60828503
At this point, why not just install ReactOS?

>>60838290
Hardware and software support.

I use XP for work. I maintain old as fuck software for a big company.

I honestly don't enjoy it. Explorer.exe is barebones compared to 10, window management is hell with my usual workflow (+15 windows open) so I miss window previews like 7 and that new task view in 10. It also likes to shit the bed every often in a while (after an uptime of several weeks, starts acting funny, like windows decorations disappearing, clicks do nothing, icons render where they shouldn't, etc). All my coworkers feel the same way about XP.

>>60836870
>98SE
Fuck me, first PC I ever built was around this time. I was like 13. 98SE was so much better than XP, until the Service Pack 2 update rolled out and fixed everything.

XP MASTER RACE

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>>60838984
I LOL XP'd myself.

>>60832344
Just install linux on that old win xp machine and theres the solution.

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>>60835882
no shit!

> granny on laptop doing jewbook.
> wannacry h@x0rs her machine.
> granny panics and calls me. her favorite grandson.
> tell her to turn off the computer and remove the battery.
> wait 5 minutes and plug back in. No more pajeetware.

Why the fuck is this so hard for people? pajeet can't ransom you if they don't have an internet to connect to.

>>60839190
Or you could just update XP.

>>60828503
Old Windows ISO?
I only found this
https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4254053/MicroXP_v0.82_-_eXPerience

>>60832248
>Ubuntu added support for magical plug and play printing
Not him, but unsurprisingly it doesn't work, and even after fiddling with CUPS for few hours I still couldn't get it to work.

Another printer "worked", but lack many feature the windows had, and even printing time was less under windows than linux.

>>60832344
WannaCry encryption can be cracked under WinXP

Anybody succeed in creating WinXP template for Qubes?

Windows XP still has legitimate use in a VM for running old software such as 16-bit apps

>>60835944
This. For some reason XP bluescreens when Wannacry is trying to run.

>>60840580
>>60840691
Not to mention XP has been patched for WannaCry.

>>60828503
I actually have about three machines that run XP that I use them sometimes. This is one of them

>Pentium E5300 2.6GHz
>ECS G31T-M7
>1GB RAM DDR2
>Samsung HD161JJ 160GB SATA drive
>LiteOn DVD-RW
Planning to install POSReady 2009 on it though.

>>60836911
The ramblings of a crackpot who thinks everyone is out to get him is not a theory

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>>60828668
No it isn't.

2011 was when Windows 7 surpassed XP in market share. Sadly in another 3 or 4 years, Windows 10 will definitely be the world's dominant OS.

>>60840780
>XP has been patched
Why not just run the regkey?

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>>60840882
>Windows 10 will definitely be the world's dominant OS.
Did you just hex me?

>>60840924
The one to get POSReady 2009 updates? No reason to, I'm running POSReady 2009.

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>>60841017
It sucks but there's no denying the upswing.

This one's from 2015.

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i miss this cozy ass shit

>>60842637
MCE theme was nice

>>60837226
wouldn't it be simpler to let the services run individually as processes? why do you have to call svchost? also, why so many of them, with each running multiple services?