![]() Lower level access to certain devices such as floppy disk drives is impossible in newer Windows', and compatibility with legacy XP/9x software is worthless and achieved only by exceeding poor emulation.įortunately all the software I need runs ok on XP, so I cling on to it. It's no longer "how can we make this thing more efficient to allow users to get the best out of their hardware?" but "how can we make this thing slower so that people throw away perfectly functional, powerful-enough hardware and blow a bunch of money on a newer PC manufactured by a company that sealed a backdoor deal with us". Newer Windows' were also designed to be unnecessarily sluggish on purpose. There's also the problem of useless, potentially dangerous, perpetually open ports that can't be shut down without sacrificing system usability and stability. ![]() Just look how Vista removed the classic network traffic icon from the bottom-right corner of the screen they didn't want people to notice phantom connections going on and off all the time. Anything afterwards the NSA has it's filthy paw in. Well, WinXP/2003 is the very last Windows version that could be easily tweaked and modified into being safe. Honestly, why does everyone want XP? As much as I didn't want to migrate from XP I had no choice to update to 7 because the software and hardware I use/need doesn't like XP unless im lucky enough to find a Open Source version that works in Linux We only issue copies that are from the manufacturer and if there is a updated version from the manufacturer we host it as well as long as it is listed as Abandonware. ![]() Honestly, why does everyone want XP? As much as I didn't want to migrate from XP I had no choice to update to 7 because the software and hardware I use/need doesn't like XP unless im lucky enough to find a Open Source version that works in Linux. Now there are some that are great but they're mostly aimed for custom hardware or a special software spec for say business use so a tech doesn't have to carry and use a stack of CDs or jump drives to restore/install. I used it one day and granted it was updated with SP3 and updated drivers but it loaded up a ton of hacked registry values that caused issues and I had to manually fix, loaded up with some lame software that I had to remove and so on. I had gotten a hold of a copy of XP from a PC I bought from a thrift store, it was in the CD tray. I hate these hackjob releases that are floting around.
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