My first version was Windows 2.0. And when Windows 3.0 came out, I thought it was so amazing that it used the 386 protected memory features. That was HUGE news back then. Now it's just ho-hum. Honestly, DR-DOS, GEM, and GEOS was 15 years ahead of any version of Windows. In fact, Windows didn't catch up to GEOS (from the 1980's) till around the Windows 2000 timeframe.
god i know right? i do believe we had a windows XP from 2001 to about 2008 or 9? and then we got our hands on a windows 7 with a gts 240 8gb ram. yeah watch out nvidia, your 3090 aint got shit on that little thing.
I cant get it to run on my hp g1. It just gives me a blue screen when opening files for the os. I tried win 7 but it won't download drivers. I'm not a computer guy lol
Same here - it's a great OS and one I'll be keeping as the software I have running on it is a lot less annoying than the Windows 10 versions I have running on my secondary machine. Browsers have become increasing glitchy but now I know of MyPal ...
My PCB cad program and files are all on a dedicated XP computer. That computer has never given any grief since the day it was purchased (new early 2000's) Even the original monitor still works, and is bright too. It's off the net, and is just dedicated to designing circuit boards, but works fantastic. My computer operating 7 ultimate works great too, a very close second to XP.
Being offline, I suppose it never had to go through that phase where 10 minutes of being connected to the net without a good firewall caused an infection. I wanna believe Windows XP was great but that memory ruins it.
@Mr Carlson's Lab , i totally agree on what you say, i have many pc's here and one of them has a multiboot XP / Windows 7. On the XP slice, there are multiple data recovery and diagnostic programs installed that don't work on newer Windows versions. Also has XP the capability of doing things, that newer operating systems can't. Per example, if you connect a USB flash drive/memory card/SSD/HDD to a XP computer, that contains a File system that XP doesn't recognise, XP will still add a driveletter to this device, so that 3th party software like Acronis can take images of this device. On Windows 7 and later, there is no option to assign a driveletter to a device that has a "non MS" filesystem.
I still use XP even now, there's just some stuff I use regularly, that just won't run on anything newer, so I have XP in a virtual machine ready for when I need to use it.
I do too, but due to lack of updates and support some of my regular internet sites I have to use other devices for internet and more updated things. I still like using Microsoft Photo Editor on it. Hate that they got rid of that because the replacement Office Picture Manager stinks.
You can still run XP on a virtual machine, inside your current OS. When I went from XP to Windows 7 x64, I made an image of the old hard drive and loaded it into VirtualBox. I can still run my old XP system any time I want.
It's still hands down the best OS MS ever released. As much as I absolutely love Windows 95 and 98, Windows XP was just stable, easy to use and still lots of fun.
that is why earth do not like us to live anymore. If we make quality goods and let people use them for long time then earth can breaths slightly better. XPSP2 is my real win and good even all the world fight to me to change it.
I'm going to use Windows 7 until newer games stop supporting it, then I'll just tempt fate with Linux. I already use Kali Linux often for pentesting and scripting, and it's great. I'll use Windows 7 as long as new games coming out will support it tbh, after that I'll just avoid the cancerous mobile UI spyware such as 10 and 11 because no matter what I will not use it.
@@werhold Chrome will stop supporting it next year, but I've always considered Chrome itself to be spyware. It's just forced incompatibility where they'll make the installer or updater detect you running 7 so they'll block you from installing it because they're being paid by Microsoft. I'd just continue to stick with Firefox or a fork of it like Waterfox, even after games stop supporting 7 I'd still use it and play unsupported games on Linux Mint with Proton.
@@666chapelofblood I use firefox myself as it has good privacy protection, I have heard that Windows 10 is good - but even mircrosoft have admitted that some of their "tracking" programs are built into the core of windows 10 and cant be turned off, so I will stay with my old windows 7 computer until nothing works with it - I have got at least another 5 years left before I will be forced to upgrade (its really a downgrade)
@@werhold I wouldn't "upgrade" even then, if necessary I'd just switch to a Linux distro. Nowadays most Linux distros are out of the box, Proton is promising and not many distros are likely to spy on you. Windows 10 is not good at all, when I used it I had constant problems with RAM, I'd keep losing all of my personal data each update, features kept breaking whenever an update occurred, games that would work fine on 7 wouldn't on 10 and half of the programs (mobile apps) like CandyCrush would always install themselves and then reinstall themselves after uninstalling them. Not to mention the depressing, flat, ugly UI. I use Waterfox Classic since I can use the same addons I could use before Firefox changed everything.
I bought my first ever Windows PC with my own money in 2001 (after a decade-long absence from the computing scene) and I wanted XP loaded onto it. I tell ya, I wasn't disappointed in the least! I kinda fell in love with it, actually. It was smooth, stable, rock-solid and very well supported. I still have fond memories of it.
I remember at around 2002 mi Pentium III 900Mhz ran WIndows 98SE. Win98 was a nice OS, but I met XP at a richer cousin's PC and it was instant love. After that day I wanted that OS on my PC. And so, that same PC still works fine and runs XP to this very day. Works like a charm as a memorial machine. Having to update on my work PC (other machine) to Windows 7 after XP support expired actually broke my heart. I miss it as a daily driver so much, but I always have a virtual machine just in case. Eternal love to Pentium III, Windows XP and Max Payne.
When I was a teenager that time XP taught me so many things. Was loving windows media player and its skins so I developed WMP Skin Maker. Also developed Wallpaper changer, Folder Background Changer, Internet Radio. XP had shaped my dreams and passion of software development. Today also I wish that XP should be live rather than using Windows 10. No matter how good hardware I have but the experience I got with XP on my first machine that I can't get in new versions of Windows. Really miss Windows XP.
I've got plans to use XP as my main OS for the entire of October and document that in the form of a video. shouldn't be too difficult, but certainly will be interesting. this video did not influence this idea whatsoever and I've actually been planning to do this since October 2019.
@@danwood_uk I still us XP as my main OS on most of my machines. There are still up to date web browsers available so using the internet in 2021 is not a problem.
@@catriona_drummond What makes you think they're rubbish? Is it just the fact that they're unofficial? I've used several different packs on many different machines for 8 years now, without encountering any major issues. The makers mostly just combined and repacked official fixes, integrated into a stand-alone installer, or made them available as nLite updatepacks. Some update packs fix annoying bugs and security issues that Microshaft never cared to fix. Are you sure you know what you're talking about?
Ditto and likewise Windoze Teletubby. I even set my office computer to show _"Time for tubby byebye"_ while shutting down. I did it to the boss's computer as well when he wasn't looking, he wasn't very happy.
When I was at Uni, the 3D modelling software we used, SoftImage only ran on NT machines, so we all dual-boot Win98 and Win2K machines. XP was a revelation! We could have a single boot machine that was as good for work as it was for gaming. This was back when rebooting took a fair chunk of time too.
Glad to see that Windows XP is still being remembered today. It is still one of my favorite Windows OS's, the look and feel of it plus the user friendly nature of XP was just great. I loved how well this system ran. It was clean, simple, and it looked great. I miss the old Windows Media player 8/11 because I played a lot of music in those programs. I remember using this OS in school and on my first laptop. Windows XP will always have a place in my heart because it's awesome.
I am in the same boat - our CRM was written in a DOS based database and it is lightning fast, does everything we need it to do and to migrate 28,000 clients is a bit daunting - especially to the cloud.
@@eddybulich3309 migrating 28,000 clients shouldn't be a problem at all, our team used to migrate millions of clients to AWS, or from AWS to local linux based server, and it hardly takes a week to do everything and test every single functionality and cross check all the data. It is mostly just the refusal to change by the higher officials in the companies that forces everyone to use "its working" systems. In the 2 months internship I have spent there, most of the clients were organizations whose older higher official has retired and replaced by a younger one, and them hiring us to migrate their 2-3 decades old systems to newer ones since the old official refused to upgrade since it was "working", when in reality, they were barely working and often took 10x the time to do any task compared to a new system and should have been replaced decades ago.
@@stargate455 Not much issues there i still use AVAST on all of the PC's, and i haven't reinstalled OS since 2006, cause i have my accounting software for my company on it- i know people are screaming , but i really do know what i'm doing and what sites i'm visiting - or downloading , so there is no issues there , also i have a separate firewall and all traffic goes trough at least 3 points before it reaches anything. There really has to be intent to attack specific computer on network to try to breach in something , otherwise nothing really interesting there on it except that software which is useless to anyone except me, and i have backups of it . Windows XP isn't that bad at all for experienced user , but i wouldn't give it to anyone to use it on the internet though.
XP is a legendary MS's legendary OS! It was first OS I could call "stable" in comparison to W95, 98 or ME (unfortunately I skipped W2K). Thank you for making this video!
XP remains relevant... for XP games... And that is why I use it. My main machine uses Debian. And I am sad not to be a UK resident, although Covid is not hitting us as hard here in Canada.
windows 7 runs every xp era game. Moreover xp has a very bad multicore support, so if you are using a multicore cpu(virtually every cpu), you are leaving a lot of performance untapped. Even xp era games run better on win 7.
I'm afraid the comparison makes no sense. I could say I'm living in a 40 yr old building that's in perfect condition, but that's an apples to oranges sort of thing.
comparison with cars makes no sense. In the 25 years, the size of engines only shrank by 1.5 to 2. In the same time, size of transistor nodes shrank 200x. Different technologies progress at a different rate, and if it works, there's no reason to change mentality is the bane to technology and progress. If people at the times of horse carriages thought if it works, there's no reason to change, we wouldn't have had motor vehicles.
First thing I used to do after XP was installed and drivers installed too was to change the 'menushowdelay' to 0ms from the default of 400ms so that when using the start menu the different menus would instantly appear rather than having to wait nee-on half a second before they were displayed. Classic mode was create for slower systems and show shadows on icons too helped a lot. Have ran XP on a Pentium 166mmx @ 200MHz before with 64MB of RAM and the RAM was a major drawback so had no choice other than to upgrade it to 256MB as replaced the 2 x 32MB PC100 for 2 x 128MB PC133 168pin SDR SDRAM.
I still run a computer with XP on it. Well, I should say I keep one hooked up in the event I actually wanted to run it. It's basically the best setup a computer could have had at the peak of XP. I used to use it for older PC games like New Vegas and Command and Conquers. Now I use a virtual machine but I still can't bring myself to part with the old girl.
i love windows XP. It's my favorite OS so far. My Windows XP pc had gotten me through my school days, my first serious love, my first heartbreak, late nights with friends gaming etc etc. I think XP looks beautiful, even today.
This is absolutely nostalgic! Thank you for uploading this video Dan, i've been using Windows XP since 2012 installed on my old grandparent's computer. I remember drawing stuff on ms paint, surfing the web and even playing pinball! This was a guilt trip as hell, windows xp will be remembered down to my heart
Wee need Windows XP remastered. All the OG icons and stuff, but with modern security features, improved coding, and compatibility with new apps. I wanna go back in the early 2000's so bad, you have no idea!
Anyone who has suffered through all the iterations from DOS to Millennium, thinks XP was created by geniuses. I'm sure there are thousands of offline computers still happily running it.
Some information in here is a bit off here: Windows XP Media Centre editions were released in 2002 with the last version in 2005. The last version of XP was Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 and support ended for that in April 2019. The 2019 patch was not for Wannacry but instead for BlueKeep, Wannacry (Ethereal Blue) was patched in 2017.
I remembered the Wannacry patch because I installed it on my xp install, but I couldn't remember the name for the 2019 patch. I knew more about the Wannacry patch. I also got a laugh about everyone claiming all the unpatched Windows xp installs were going spread Wannacry to lots of other computers, but 7 was the one that was affected more. I remember reading that usually a Windows xp PC would just freeze up and a hard reset fixed everything for many people. I still run xp on occasion and haven't even gotten any infections of any kind, but I tend to be more careful of what pages I visit online besides antivirus.
I used Windows XP from 2001 through 2016. I still have that Dell desktop, and it still works, the few times I bother to turn it on, to look at some ancient files, or copy something out of it. I never felt the need to upgrade to a newer Windows version on that system. XP had me covered, always rock-stable. I did update it with the WannaCry patch in 2019, but I did it offline. I haven't connected to the internet with my old box in years. Too risky.
Oh the memories - can't believe the call out to the Zune theme! That was my favourite - I'd like to do a shoutout to the KaZaa media Codec pack :) XP had some great Enterprise stuff - the Deployment Toolkit was great
I did that too for the first few months after upgrading, i used 9x and 2k up until then I didn't wanna switch from 2K when it did everything I needed it for.
I always prefer a lot the WindXP theme to the classic... Though I always changed to the silver color, can't say I ever liked the blue much, but the silver just looked pretty damn clean and the folders icons, I LOVE THEM, I HATE IS WIND 10 MAC like icons. But since M$ released the official Zune theme I switched right away to that one, totally love it, it's the orange one from this video and I also have custom toolbar with my signature draw in it, customized title bar too with smaller more modern buttons. And I also really enjoyed doing kinda custom themes for each different USB pen drive just using shell commands which is super simple and sadly can't do it on Wind10, but it's pretty cool to put a USB pen drive or HDD and the background on it changes and so does the text color.
Still use windows XP with all the last tools for retro gaming. It is still a amazing operation system My system Asrock. 939 dual vsta AMD Athlon 64 x2 4600+ Radeon HD 4770 4 GB RAM 400 MHz 256 GB SSD Soundblaster SB 0220
I remember XP so fondly. I remember playing space cadet, AOL games, and even popcap games like chuzzle and Zuma. So were some good times when life was simple. Glad to see XP can still be used today if you're so inclined to.
For security: The first thing to do is to disable admin rights for the regular user. A bit pain when installing new software or driver, because XP cannot do a "sudo", like Vista can (through UAC). But it is probably worth to close the browser, and logout, before logging in as admin to install that software or driver.
@@TheGl124 I may have missed it. As a home user back then, you didn't care about privilege levels, and if I used an XP box at school, I only had my own account anyways. Was the feature limited to Server 2003?
Windows XP to me is what 7 seems to be to the majority nowadays. A fun and entertaining way to use my computer with a nice fresh look (oh gosh, the Zune theme is golden) and aside a couple of hours in Internet cafes and my school's computer class with 98SE also my gateway to the Internet. Gaming was great on that thing and albeit I grew pretty tired seeing it everywhere at my workplace in the mid 2010's (let alone Vista made me go for Linux as main OS), it was a fantastic experience over all.
XP was the best Windows experience. All they really needed to fix was malware. Alot of things since then have been either bad step forward or backward. XP was fast and clean (experience-wise). It is still the sweet spot between hardware and software matching performance. Any Windows later is obese, and behaves obesely, laggy even on much better hardware. The difference is sports car vs. conversion van. You can put any engine you want in van, but it's still gonna handle like a van.
Hi Dan! Thank you for this video. I still remember the excitement when waiting for the XP release here, in Poland... Aww, such good, old days! I still use XP as my main Windows OS (I also use Mac OS) and combined with Office 2003 + compatibility pack it's pretty usable. I know for sure I won't switch to W10 nor W11 as they're looking like crap and work no better than their look ;) Cheers!
@@Rickkeys377 you've heard me :) I'm running my own business (I'm an IT guy) and I use XP as my main OS. Yes - I have quite modern hardware (at least the newest that has drivers for XP) and it still works flawlessly. The only problem I encountered recently was due to lack of current CA's in system, but I've found a workaround for this. In the meantime - I have installed Linux MX on my second machine and I'm trying to switch to it.
Y2K is old enough to drink… Edit: now windows xp is old enough to drink Edit: now I’m old enough to drink Edit: now call of duty is old enough to drink Edit: now gta San Andreas is old enough to drink Edit: now the Xbox 360 is old enough to drink Edit: now the Wii is old enough to drink
I could not stand XP when it came out, i stuck with windows 2000 till the bitter end and then switch to XP for a few years before 7. Its a good OS but bloated VS 2000
You can easily strip all the bloat with programs like nLite and do some debloating afterwards using scripts. It's not that difficult to reduce the footprint from 3 Gb to 250 Mb or even smaller if you're really obsessive about it. Most services and components can be removed without losing core functionality. The OS will gain stability and its memory usage will drop considerably.
I absolutely loved Windows XP when it first come out I was all over it. it is a very clean operating system. so easy to use I am still using it as my main operating system to this day. I never left Windows XP. it's a shame Microsoft no longer supports this system. it is a kick-ass system and I love it. far as I'm concerned anything after windows XP is shit. bring back the updates. for Windows XP. we all miss it.👍
I used XP from 2001 until 2015 in one form or another. I switched to Windows 7 at some point, but kept a Windows XP netbook until I decided to install a lightweight linux on it to speed it up. Good memories.
Stream on XP even in 2022 isn't too terribly hard to get running. I've had no issues on 6 fresh installs (after all updates-) just dragging the unzipped steam files into the programs folder, and copying the 'second' steam link to the desktop. Someone on youtube has a video on it!
I still use software that runs best under XP or Win 1900. And it runs faster a virtual machine than Win 10 runs on bare metal. Gotta keep it firewalled off the internet, though. Much good info here, especially the unofficial SP4.
This OS makes me sick with nostalgia. My dads pc used XP and so did my primary school computers. 'XP' was what I assumed a 'computer' was for the longest time.
XP was the Ancient Roman symbol for God. Did anyone else make that connection with the Gospel singers? I studied a little bit of Roman history, so when XP came out, I immediately saw the symbolism.
You should definitly not use Windows XP connected to the internet anymore. For various reasons, one is the lack of TLS1.3 support which is an important part of the stronger getting internet encryption.
I am on a dual boot. First boot is Winxp and second is Win7. I can upgrade to Win 8 or even Win 10 on my dual core processor and downgrade to Win Vista. But XP and 7 is the default and i'll not change it. It is going to be like this uptill i decide to sell this pc.
the issue that Microsoft will never understand - some machinery was certified using computers to control something ages ago - the computers of the machinery using some very old versions of Windows even as old as 3.11 - to switch to other version of windows even play updates - no way - all the old machinery would need to be security re-certified or scraped example rail road coches made in Europe used in Europe for 20 yrs - soled to China as 2nd Hand some 10 yrs ago - will be used there for next 20 yrs on some secondary rail link the brake system control of this coaches is using windows 3.11 - change it - the cost will hit the sky - no way same game - software controling engines on oceanic ships - software base on Windows old versions changing the Windows woud mean changing the software - controling engines - would mean re-certify the whole ships for secutiry i cannot even think how much it would cost all over the world to re-certifiy all the big vessels only keeping them for 2 or 4 weeks in haborough to run the tests - not earning money on the sea - a lot of money
XP was the golden year of microsoft IMO, windows 7 was fantastic, windows 98 had it moments, but man I don't miss those loading screens. Windows 95 yeah i dont remember much I had a friend play diablo 2 on it. Windows ME was alright, but 98 still held up IMO. Windows Vista was never really very good albeit it had some cool stuff, but Windows 7 brought back Windows 98's simplicity and style everyone loved. Windows 8 was a hard pass with Windows 7 still out, but it had a lot of new features... It wasn't until Windows 10 that Windows 8 seemed decent, but Windows 10 improved on a lot of things.. Personally I still used a Classic Shell start button to make my start button windows 7 style, but Windows 10 is by far the way to go nowadays. I would like windows 7 to continue holding on forever if it can, windows 8 no thanks. Windows 11? Well i haven't bother trying it yet.. Maybe it will streamline and fix a lot of things or maybe it will make things more complicated like windows Vista/8 seemed to do, but I guess I'm willing to give it time to see how it evolves.. Since I got an rtx 2080ti i'm a gamer and it has nice gaming features packed in.. Maybe it'd fix some stutter issues I have on Win10 who knows.. If anything as time goes on we are all going to have to evolve and constantly upgrade.. PC's never seem to quit improving and whatever you own now will continue be uncomparable to what comes out soon even if its the cheapest crap you can buy. Gotta love technology.. I guess all in all the best windows I believe was Windows 7.. If only we didn't have to upgrade from there, but who knows what web 3.0 will bring and how the internet will evolve, much less software and hardware.
I am still using my XP lookalike Windows 10 childish desktop. To anyone who disapproves, go jump in the lake. If I ever downgrade to Windows 11. The first job will be to make it look exactly like Windows XP including wallpapers.
Still running XP as my daily driver, and everything works (browsing, text editing software, if want to do some programming stuff there is Code blocks which works great on my computer, AVG runs also good, etc). Many thanks for this video and to me some new infos provided such as those browsers and SP4, will try it. In anyway, although Firefox is not supported for XP, i use it daily as my main browser and it works well; html5 videos and streaming is not possible anymore but for those needs I turn to chrome browser as he can still play html5 and streaming on XP although is old version. I wish (and still hope to that :| ) Microsoft throws out some new official SP, or some essential Windows XP patches/updates/security fixes for us nostalgic people Love XP
