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.
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.
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 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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
In the past year, I've installed fresh copies of XP on three computers: a 64-bit version on a desktop PC that's used for digitising old music cassettes & scanning film negatives & slides; & two 32-bit versions on a pair of old netbooks that I'm using for running car diagnostic software (one of them a dual-boot set-up with a copy of Win 7 Pro 32-bit). Even after just a brief time using XP again, I was reminded what a lovely OS it is. Software-wise, I'd already started to use OpenOffice, but the lack of a secure (or even functional!) web-browser put a serious crimp in things though, so your suggestion of Mypal is very welcome!
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?
XP was great, I actually currently use my old computer from 2005 with Windows XP as an offline music recording computer in my bands rehearsal studio recording 16 channels of audio at once. The studio recording program Reaper that i am using still supports Windows XP in its current version. On my main computer at home i use Windows 10 though.
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!
@@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.
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.
Just installed it on an old 'Cube' PC, works just fine... Just as an 'add' to this, I also have Vista Business Edition which has been very stable on every machine I have installed it on.
XP was my OS of choice for a long time. Even when i went up to Windows 7 and now Windows 10, i still used an older computer running XP more often than not.
Nice video, thank you! Just last friday I bought an old notebook from 2004 with XP, my Dad still had an MS Office 2010 DVD, works fantastic. Wanted to have it for some really old games that I still have 😊
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.
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 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.
In 2020 I bought a low power FM radio station and the main on air PC is still running Windows XP and yep the machine is connected to the internet and also not only contains our main audio playout software it also does the streaming from the same machine. We send audio to it remotely and transfer about a gig of audio a week to it via our NBN connection and it is still rock solid
I still run Windows XP (in Virtual Box) as i have to maintain some corporate software written in VB6 (VS6). VB6 (VS6) runs only in Windows XP, but the compiled programs (EXE files) are 100% native Windows 10 compatible (Windows 10 supports native VB6 compiled programs). But the old VB6 code base cannot be converted to Visual Studio 2019 etc, so i'm stuck at running VB6 on Windows XP in Virtual Box. Works like a charm.
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.
It amuses me somewhat (10:47) that quite a few popular high end digital live (and a couple of studio) sound consoles still use a very locked down variant of XP/NT (and possibly 7) and one or more were very likely used for the show from the video footage. This worries some folk including most Mac users when in reality the OS on these desks is really very stable. Most of the infrequent issues are caused by DSP, memory or other processing cards becoming unseated in transit/handling/humungous vibrations from the main PA subs during a show!
I still use Windows XP Home to play the wma copies of my LPs and CDs, most of those wma files have been created during 2005. I play those wma files in WMP 11 with WoW and TrueBass effects. In March 2010 I installed Windows XP in a Virtualbox VM and I still use that installation. That Windows XP VM survived 3 desktops and 4 CPUs. I have Firefox ESR installed, but I only use the Internet for updating some application programs from the supplier web site.
I’m 24 (born in 98) and near tears. Wow this is so nostalgic. I have been using Mac for the last 7-8 years but I’d happily go back to windows is they brought this back🥲
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
I still have a Win XP pc that I use, It's very handy for working with retro computers, with Floppy drive, parallel port etc... I have software that only really works on XP, Snes-tools, EEprom programming software etc.. It has the last XP version of Firefox, runs on a small SSD so is lightning quick! .. I'm not sure if I could ever use that as a primary computer though :-)
Ahhh XP, this was the OS I earned my MCP/MCDST qualification for. Such a reliable platform and it’s shelf life was testament to that. Many good times had on this OS, sweet, sweet memories 🤤
I liked the puppy. Gave me something fun to look at while I waited for the search to go through my slow HDD. Certainly better than what we get nowadays - some spinning circle
Even after all those years, it still looks gorgeous
nah, the UI design is horrible
@@TurkeyBurkey1229 its not its THE INCREDIBLES 590
Wait till you see xp MCE (MediaCenter Edition)
@@TurkeyBurkey1229 your opinion is horrible
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.
Ah, Windows XP, the first version of Windows I ever used! Very solid OS.
Great video Dan, as always!
i used win 95 , than 98, after that win millenium or (win 2000), and after that win xp service pack 1 came out, than xp sp2 :D
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.
XP was the first OS that i used
XP was the oldest version of windows I have ever used. The first one I ever used was windows 7.
Man this takes me back! The visual style of the XP is just fantastic! So many good memories!
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.
Omg your channel is amazing you are a god of electronics and a example of apotheosis
Yes, guilty as charged. Best Windows OS for me. It does everything I need and it runs, stable.
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 ...
Windows is good for generic, everyday tasks, but I prefer Linux distributions over Windows by miles when it comes to development.
@@mythologue yes !!!
@@busterj11776 Runs perfectly and solidly with 256MB of RAM and minimized off a 1GB virtual drive.
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.
Exactly, Me too
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.
@@klandersen42 windows now is like an expensive raspberry pi.
That green head media player brings back some memories
Run this program : windows xp etc....
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.
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.
I prefer Windows 2000 because it has basically the same code base with even less bloat.
20 years old, damn I feel old
My paternal Grandfather was born in 1884! Now THAT is old! 😂😂😂
hold my beer:my first computer was a spectrun zx10 and my first windows were 3.0 LOL
me too
@@marcse7en wow that is too old not old
Me too
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.
@The kantaral Death to spiny rust!!! Remember it took like 8 minutes to boot the copy of XP on my first laptop
Everything about XP was nostalgic. Start up sound to the window edges . Simply amazing
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.
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
Seems like yesterday, and I'm kind of stuck in that time.. The world is moving way too fast.
the world is a piece of shit. if it comes crawling to your door, show it windows xp and then kick it in the teeth.
@@atomictraveller Hahaha 👍
Sue is too fast 😆
Same, I still feel like it's the early 2000s.
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.
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 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.
Even with the source code being revealed somewhat recently, I wouldn't mind having a xp machine still.
I'm using an old 2008 HP notebook with XP as my information gatherer(real word?). I wish I could use XP as my main computer.
@@willhopkins9808 I don't know if I will upgrade to Windows 11 because it's gonna be Woke.
@@isaacwright2247 🤣🤣🤣
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.
My boss still using it on a daily basis
Man, my childhood was with windows xp interface, i wish i could go back in time to those days and experience those same feelings as back then
google what "Virtual machine" is. You can run xp in 2023 in your pc like its an app.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Great idea, look forward to seeing that. It should be very do-able I think.
@@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.
I personally use windows xp for web browsing as my machine on xp isn’t powerful enough to game or video edit
It's gonna be awful. The various unofficial update packs are rubbish and you'll have nothing but trouble.
@@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?
I am still running Windows 7. I Will eventually have to upgrade, but for now, I will stick with this version.
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.
I am also still using windows 7, I feel the same as you - I will stick with it until new games and browsers no longer support 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.
What you called Fisher-Price, we referred to as teletubbyland, because the hill on the wallpaper looks like the tellytubbies home.
Hadn't heard that one before but I can see the resemblance.
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.
@@Ohm_mega you made me laugh.
You don't have to accept the wall paper, you can easily change or don't you know what your doing and lack imagination?
Humour, @@annable883 do you know it?
Pinball game brings back some memories 😊
indeed
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.
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!
Watching your video from my good old XP machine, thanks Dan!
I still use windows xp at work because the program for calculating consumption and water billing was written for it and it works great.
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.
My first Pc in 2007 had Windows 95 followed by XP some day, it was such a dream to use... But i did miss the sounds of 95
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.
@@babybear19791 I still use Windows XP because Windows 10 is a Woke piece of [***].
@@isaacwright2247 a dumb idea to do these days, unless your pc is hot garbage, I recommend that you install windows 10
@@automatedinsanity Windows 10 is slow as hell on my prized HP 2000-2c29wm with an AMD E1-1200.
@@isaacwright2247 then use a lightweight Linux distro
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 miss Windows XP it was one of my favourite OS's ever
Thank you for taking me back :)
Love that people like you keep the legendary os somewhat alive and relevant
For me, this is all where it started when it comes to PC... So many good memories...
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.
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.
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
Ah yes those huge codec pack downloads, I remember K-Lite too.
Zune Theme should have been the main theme
@@danwood_uk I am still using that.
It was fun to use, from SP2 to SP3. Then I were just using it because there were nothing better. Then came Win7, the best windows to date.
AMIGA 500 mini has been announced!!
I always ran XP in classic mode and switched off "new" explorer features
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.
both, windows 95 and 98 have blown my mind back then. After 98 nothing really surprises me anymore. my favourites today are xp, 7. 10 is fine though.
It's 2021 and I still use XP with Firefox esr, opera 36 and yandex on an SSD, Xeon core2Quad...
Opera working fine?
It is weird looking at the good old windows xp OS with modern websites being displayed on it.
Gives me a bit of an uncomfy and unsettling feeling
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 doesn'T run them?
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.
@@ritwikreddy5670 Can't say I won't try that, but emulation on Linux is getting better!
Windows XP is still my favourite OS, windows XP and original Xbox are two of Microsoft biggest successes, coming out in the same year!
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.
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.
In the past year, I've installed fresh copies of XP on three computers: a 64-bit version on a desktop PC that's used for digitising old music cassettes & scanning film negatives & slides; & two 32-bit versions on a pair of old netbooks that I'm using for running car diagnostic software (one of them a dual-boot set-up with a copy of Win 7 Pro 32-bit).
Even after just a brief time using XP again, I was reminded what a lovely OS it is. Software-wise, I'd already started to use OpenOffice, but the lack of a secure (or even functional!) web-browser put a serious crimp in things though, so your suggestion of Mypal is very welcome!
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.
interesting idea
XP has "Run as" option which allows you run program under another user's account
@@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?
@@milasudril No, this feature was introduced at least in Win 2000. Click right mouse button on executable file and you will see it in menu.
@@TheGl124 I thought it was restricted to "Server" a license.
7:33 sorry for being pedantic here but you don't technically write to CD _ROMs_ (that would be _CD-R_ or _CD-RW)_ 😉
Hi! I'm from Brazil and still use XP as main OS in a Pentium 4 de desktop. And it runs perfectly.
XP was great, I actually currently use my old computer from 2005 with Windows XP as an offline music recording computer in my bands rehearsal studio recording 16 channels of audio at once. The studio recording program Reaper that i am using still supports Windows XP in its current version. On my main computer at home i use Windows 10 though.
I was still using it as a main OS in 2014.
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'm still using XP works like charm.
How do you deal with virus very interest do know with what kind of program you use
@@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.
@Chingaso Clown Nice malware sharing. How much were you paid?
@@idimidodjimi6760 definitely antivirus its more of common sense if you know what youre doing theres no need to worry :)
So much nostalgy! A jump in the good old days forever gone!
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!
What?
@@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.
Just installed it on an old 'Cube' PC, works just fine... Just as an 'add' to this, I also have Vista Business Edition which has been very stable on every machine I have installed it on.
just saying i didn't skip sponsor part because you marked it and i expceted it so it was not annoying
thanks, if only everyone would do that
gotta love sponsorblock that does that automatically
@@FakeMichau i know sponsorblock and i dont want to skip this part
I still run XP on a virtual machine as some of the software I need for my work doesn't work on newer machines.
Windows Xp and Windows 7 were the best, The Windows os what down hill after 8 was joke, 10 was just ok. Now 11 is looking liking the same as 10.
Ahh staying late on school nights to chat on msn messenger, the internet was fun back then.
Haven't even watched it yet... but thumbs up straight away. 👍 just because its Dan
How about doing a video about running Windows 7 in 2023 - some 14 years after its initial release?
Still use XP on multiple systems, works great ;)
XP was my OS of choice for a long time. Even when i went up to Windows 7 and now Windows 10, i still used an older computer running XP more often than not.
windows XP reminded me of smarties red and blue ones lol Great operating system.
Nice video, thank you! Just last friday I bought an old notebook from 2004 with XP, my Dad still had an MS Office 2010 DVD, works fantastic. Wanted to have it for some really old games that I still have 😊
My car is 6 years older than XP, and it's still an effective daily driver... If it works there's no reason to change.
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.
I love that you mention BOB! I remember playing around with it in middle school when Encarta got boring🤣😉
Never liked win XP color scheme either...and they decided to remove the "themes" anyway
i really wonder why, i love the silver touch
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
Yeah XP can be very good for playing older games.
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.
Most usable version of Windows ever ~ so easy to administer.
In 2020 I bought a low power FM radio station and the main on air PC is still running Windows XP and yep the machine is connected to the internet and also not only contains our main audio playout software it also does the streaming from the same machine. We send audio to it remotely and transfer about a gig of audio a week to it via our NBN connection and it is still rock solid
I still run Windows XP (in Virtual Box) as i have to maintain some corporate software written in VB6 (VS6).
VB6 (VS6) runs only in Windows XP, but the compiled programs (EXE files) are 100% native Windows 10 compatible (Windows 10 supports native VB6 compiled programs).
But the old VB6 code base cannot be converted to Visual Studio 2019 etc, so i'm stuck at running VB6 on Windows XP in Virtual Box. Works like a charm.
This was great!! Well done!
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.
I'm currently running a dual boot XP and Win 7. No plans in changing any time soon.
13:13 just because it runs and shows some fancy percentage numbers
does not mean it protects you (at all).
14:16 Oh... Nostalgia 👍🏻👌🏻✌🏻️😍🥰😊🙂
Great vid. I worked at PC World at the time and got myself a copy as a store privilege. Changed everything.
It amuses me somewhat (10:47) that quite a few popular high end digital live (and a couple of studio) sound consoles still use a very locked down variant of XP/NT (and possibly 7) and one or more were very likely used for the show from the video footage. This worries some folk including most Mac users when in reality the OS on these desks is really very stable. Most of the infrequent issues are caused by DSP, memory or other processing cards becoming unseated in transit/handling/humungous vibrations from the main PA subs during a show!
Ahh the bliss wallpaper, I love it I still use until today.
4:02 Damn I paused there having it on fullscreen. Just sat there for 5 mins of a nostalgic trip.
The most memorising thing about XP is definetly the classic startup tone when logging on :D
I still use Windows XP Home to play the wma copies of my LPs and CDs, most of those wma files have been created during 2005. I play those wma files in WMP 11 with WoW and TrueBass effects. In March 2010 I installed Windows XP in a Virtualbox VM and I still use that installation. That Windows XP VM survived 3 desktops and 4 CPUs. I have Firefox ESR installed, but I only use the Internet for updating some application programs from the supplier web site.
It's was my first os. I still remember playing monster truck madness on it and drawing in paint .love windows xp❤️😭
I wonder if the 64bit version would support more apps and drivers these days since almost everything is 64bit.
Still use it sometimes and also under Virtualization.
I’m 24 (born in 98) and near tears. Wow this is so nostalgic. I have been using Mac for the last 7-8 years but I’d happily go back to windows is they brought this back🥲
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
the windows xp aesthetic is unmatched
Yes. Exactly.
I'm still using for a specific puropose in my recording studio with 3x old audio interfaces and Pro Tools 8. Runs very solid rock!
The 2000s and late 90s were something back in their days, I remember XP by heart. That Bliss wallpaper will forever stain my heart.
i still have my sahara laptop from college days with xp Windows installed, and i still use it today and it runs like charm!
Amazing video dan :)
I still have a Win XP pc that I use, It's very handy for working with retro computers, with Floppy drive, parallel port etc... I have software that only really works on XP, Snes-tools, EEprom programming software etc.. It has the last XP version of Firefox, runs on a small SSD so is lightning quick! .. I'm not sure if I could ever use that as a primary computer though :-)
Ahhh XP, this was the OS I earned my MCP/MCDST qualification for. Such a reliable platform and it’s shelf life was testament to that. Many good times had on this OS, sweet, sweet memories 🤤
I liked the puppy. Gave me something fun to look at while I waited for the search to go through my slow HDD. Certainly better than what we get nowadays - some spinning circle