Why do you still use XP?

I think largely because I'm a rebel and when I'm told I cant do something that makes me even more determined to prove wrong. Partly, the same and I enjoy it and some programs I also still want to use. Otherwise, I'd likely go full linux. Hate to say it here.

 

And if they're doing the job, then who needs the latest thing?

I look at high res pdfs all day long, and guess what? xp displays them quickly and easily even with reader 5.0 (only some 'new' pdfs are straying from the standard and starting to cause version problems, but most people are still doing things the right way). With a video card/gpu it's even faster.

 

Don't be ashamed to be linux user--plenty of us here.

 

Thank you ... but thus far I only use live DVDs because ti was such a hassle to dual-boot.

 

if you don't want the hassle of dual boot/ multi boot you can instead have each OS on a plug in disk drive. This has advantages, boot is faster and you don't end up losing boot sector because you removed the OS which had the active boot.

 

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What I've been sayin' all along, , ,

 

He has. I think he posted about this on here long before I did.

 

Thank you, I'm not ashamed at all, but I do hope to continue with XP for my game and music.

 

Agreed 100%!

 

Well, fast forward to the Summer of 2023 and I need XP to run 32-bit abandonware for audio media authoring.

 

Yes and it's never been a better time to stick with 32bit audio & music creation with all the former commercial VST-VSTi plugs now given out for free as they all drop them & do 64bit only now...

As far as WHY well this image says all-

 

What is the name of the abandonware?
Is it Coolpro 2 or Audition 3 by chance?

 

Sorry to post this in two threads, but here goes...

I honestly don't mean to be a jerk, but, no, it's an obscure very comprehensive [and very expensive] DVD-A authoring tool that's still proprietary.

 

No problem... No need for any excuse... I have issues with my 'corporeal body' I would never tell anyone but we could walk on the beach together & discuss itching!...

BTW you ever wonder why it's termed 'corporeal body'?... Or why a dead one is a 'corpse'? It's because since the USA is actually a corporation & they consider everyone who is a 'citizen' a corporation as well. The real meaning of citizen is an employee of the corporation. Towns-Cities are corporations. Your birth 'certificate' with your name in all caps is certificate of monetary value (an account) & certificate means a document that denotes ownership. There is no actual authentic registry of any birth, just the creation of an account... The rabbit hole is quite deep...

 

For years it was for games but I've been fortunate enough to find hacks/ports of all my faves that run on Windows 10/11.

Mostly I still keep it around for the 3D Windows XP screensaver. I've gotten Windows 98 screensavers to work in modern Windows OSes but this one will only run in XP.

https://www.xpforums.com/threads/3d-windows-xp-logo-screensaver.934554/

And the download link from MS is still valid! Very odd since MS has scrubbed everything else XP from its site.

 

QUOTE FROM 2021 WIN XP SCREEN SAVER THREAD: I've tried to get it to run on other Windows versions but no dice, works only on XP. Luckily it runs great inside a VMWare XP Pro instance.

@ClippyBeer - Please see an excerpt from a post you made (above). I gleaned from the 2021 thread that you linked everyone to - in Post #75 of this thread - that you were employing employing a "VMWare XP Pro" virtual machine (VM) to run Win XP. Other than employing Boot Camp - in the Mac OS X environment - to run Win 7 Pro, circa 2012, I've never run VMs. My reading is telling me that VMWare is a company that specializes in commercial VM software. Would you mind writing about why you employed the VMWare software over the MS "Windows XP Mode" VM utility written by Microsoft? Thank you.