Legacy Update: Fix Windows Update on Windows XP, Vista, Server 2008, 2003, 2000

Post by pjmlp » Sat, Dec 17, 2022, 12:47 PM UTC

mmerlin wrote: post #179

hnlmorg wrote: post #168

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Personally Windows 2000 was the only Microsoft operating system I’ve ever liked. And I’m including Microsoft Basic in that scope as well. XP did mature into something that was decent, but the initial release of XP was just an uglier and more system hungry version of 2000. And thus XP drive me to run Linux as my primary OS. But back when 2000 was around, most other OSs were terrible. Linux was getting close but still…

windows 11 removed many of the previous keyboard shortcuts eg ms paint annoys me so much now the keyboard accessibility degraded badly in win 11 Microsofties: Please put them ALL back to match Windows10, acknowledge the heritage of the previous version, and the years of keyboard muscle memory now flushed down the drain example, let me use the arrow keys again in popup dialogs (arrow left+right keys now do nothing...…

Post by kirb » Sat, Dec 17, 2022, 12:56 PM UTC

Lammy wrote: post #11

slt2021 wrote: post #8

For the love of god just get off of thece ancient systems pls, or run the only in airgapped and isolated network segments with application whitelisting and manual data ingress/egress controls, and everything will be fine without these silly updates. Just bury the body already, let winxp rest in peace, please

The site does agree with you in the Disclaimer at the bottom of the page: “The existence of this site shouldn’t be taken as an endorsement to continue using unsupported OSes. You should stick to a supported OS such as Windows 10 or 11 (or, try Linux?!). However, this service exists anyway in recognition that using these OSes is sometimes necessary to run legacy hardware/software, or just interesting to play around wi…

Post by immibis » Sat, Dec 17, 2022, 1:43 PM UTC

grishka wrote: post #145

Koshkin wrote: post #44

I wish ReactOS were ready by now...

Well, at least they have a somewhat limited scope to work with — there haven't been significant WinAPI updates for more then 10 years, unless you include things like modern DirectX. I do wish they worked differently though. They're trying to build the entire thing from scratch all at once, but it would've made much more sense if they took a Windows installation and started replacing Microsoft components one by one wi…

Post by vbezhenar » Sat, Dec 17, 2022, 1:59 PM UTC

iso1631 wrote: post #47

Koshkin wrote: post #38

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> there being negative sentiment about XP I, on the other hand, clearly remember a huge wave of disgust and resentment towards XP right after it came out. Slow and bloated, with hideous, gimmicky visuals, it had been an object of all kinds of ridicule and criticisms by "sophisticated" computer users.

I think people were happy with NT4, 2000, Windows 95, and possibly Windows 98 as it had a fair number of technical improvements over Vanilla 95 (OSR2 brought in support for >2G drives for example but it wasn't until 98 you could use it properly) From memory XP was the first "phone home" windows version which required some form of online registration. I stopped using windows at home or admining it around then.

Post by amaccuish » Sat, Dec 17, 2022, 2:50 PM UTC

highwaylights wrote: post #156

Animats wrote: post #34

I could see staying with Windows 7. That was the best version Microsoft ever made. Microsoft finally figured out how to make it stable, and it didn't have all the ad and cloud crap nailed in. You can run current Firefox, current Thunderbird, and current LibreOffice, which covers the basics. Most Windows software still works.

Windows 11 is the best it’s ever been. I really don’t understand everyone’s issue. I get they try to push you towards a cloud account, but you don’t have to have one, and the ads can be much easier excised than the bloatware they used to install.