Will call our IT support tomorrow and start this as a full screen. That will be fun in the office :-)
That's actually not a bad April Fool's prank.
Windows XP Professional
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Re: Windows XP Professional
#72No Pinball :(
Re: Windows XP Professional
#73No Pinball :(
Pinball music plays in head...
Re: Windows XP Professional
#74"WIN32.RUN might have unexpected behaviors on browsers that are NOT Chromium-based (Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc.)" What would be the reasons this wouldn't run on Firefox? Genuine question from a non-web developer.
This means the developer hasn't tested it on Firefox. Platform compatibility is way better than it used to be but you still occasionally get differences in supported APIs or interpretation of the standard.
Re: Windows XP Professional
#75Back when the Start Menu made sense. It wasn't rose colored glasses, it was functional.
Yep. No web search. No ads or news or weather or links to apps that aren't actually installed. Opens virtually instantly. Lots of stock customization options (icon size, icon order, pinned icons, classic vs XP style, all shortcuts toggleable).
The only thing I miss is the search bar - I became quite used to that with Windows 7.
Re: Windows XP Professional
#76Design peaked here for OS's. Perfect balance of colors and functionality, and gloss. This was the top.
No, it's just nostalgic.
I often have a hard time telling if I'm being nostalgic. For me, 7 was peak Windows, but Win2K/XP would rank pretty close as well. I suppose the question for me is what have subsequent releases given us; what can we actually do with more recent versions of Windows that we could not accomplish back then?
Re: Windows XP Professional
#77I am viewing this post on a real Windows XP system on a 440BX platform from 1998. ;) The BIOS splash text loads and animates but not much else. I'm using Palemoon 25 (SSE1). Impressive that it loads at all!
Sadly, accrual's system was just compromised so they're offline for now
Re: Windows XP Professional
#78How can you tell that any Windows or Mac clone UI is a re-implementation? Easy: try to move your mouse diagonally into the Send To menu after letting it pop up. If the send-to menu closes as you mouse over the item into the submenu, it's a clone. If the menu stays up even if you brush over another menu item, it's either real or a Good Clone. :) For the fun history, @DonHopkins had a thread a few years back: https://n…
I must be a freak then because one of the first tweaks I do to any Windows install since possibly Win98 days is to set menu delay to 0ms. I like the snappy precise feel and have no problems not taking shortcuts across menu items.
Re: Windows XP Professional
#79Yes please. Can I please have a simple desktop that doesn't get in my way back?
There is still Mate, the Gnome 2 fork.
I'm mostly a gnome 3 guy now, but mate is way underrated IMHO. I usually use it in VMs and the performance and usability is incredible. For those of us who grew up on this paradigm, it's a joy
Re: Windows XP Professional
#80We get these cheap recreations semi-regularly on here. Why does stuff like this keep being spammed on here, besides the nostalgia factor?