Windows XP Professional SP3 x86 – Integral Edition 2023.11.26

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7 9 2 years ago

These unofficial patches are cool, but I can't bring myself to install anything that doesn't have a public confirmed good sha256 sum.

Probably just paranoia, but the WinXP era of computing was so malware heavy...

FirmwareBurner3• 2 years ago

If you really care about your security and private info you wouldn't be daily driving a Windows XP system connected to the internet in the first place.

This is great for retro computing on old PCs and tinkering projects, not to do your banking on or run your old factory equipment.

hulitu• 2 years ago

If you really care about your security and private info you wouldn't be daily driving a Windows XP system connected to the internet in the first place.

Maybe you are confusing things a bit. Windows XP, unlike 10 or 11 does not phone home. And from a purely security perspective they are mostly equal. (on XP you had worms, on 10 and 11 you have ransomware). The difference might be that with XP you can still recover your data.

sentientslug• 2 years ago

Actually I think you’ll find that old factory equipment runs on versions far worse than this…

Lammy• 2 years ago

9 Additional Windows XP Themes - {Optional}: "Windows XP Embedded", "Black Mesa v2.0", "ChaNinja Style RC5 v1.0", "Disney - It's a Magical World v2.0", "NeoGeniX LS v1.0", "Luna Element Black v5.1 + CSS", "Royale Remixed v1.47", "Windows 7 Colors v1.1", "Zune Final v1.0".

Needs moar Watercolor a.k.a best Windows has ever looked:

https://www.deviantart.com/alecu222/art/Watercolor-4-3-Visua...

https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/65112-vs-watercolor-lite-...

https://www.deviantart.com/alecu222/art/Watercolor-from-Wind... (MS-signed ver for uxtheme.dll-non-hackers)

mdrzn• 2 years ago

Watercolor was soooooo good with those pastel colors.

Kinda wish I could set up Win10 like that.

Vuska• 2 years ago

I run this on my old Eee PC 900a from 2008. The SSD was upgraded from the stock 16GB to a massive 128GB, and the ram doubled from 1GB to 2GB.

I have most of Adobe CS6 installed along with Office 2010, the final releases of both packages that ran on XP. I realised to my horror, these are also the then-current versions that I used whilst I was at university. I wrote my dissertation in Word 2010 and some of the graphics were made in Fireworks CS6.

This was the only XP ISO I found that easily booted on the device too. I'm not sure what was added to it, but the final retail ISOs wouldn't boot into setup. I think I have the OEM CD somewhere, but I don't have any optical devices that can read it.

If the battery held charge better, I could see myself bringing it to conferences. Despite what Jobs said, I love netbooks and can type reasonably well on them.

It stands in stark contrast with my old iPad 2, which is more or less marooned on iOS 9. It can't be downgraded, and even if it could be, finding IPAs from the era is a nightmare.

FirmwareBurner3• 2 years ago

I'm not sure what was added to it, but the final retail ISOs wouldn't boot into setup.

I think it's the SATA, AHCI and all the other drivers they patched in in. Original XP ISO needed a floppy with drivers too boot SATA AHCI.

Windows XP Professional SP3 x86 – Integral Edition 2023.11.26

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