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Re: Windows XP Professional

#121
post #66

So close that Microsoft Edge's heuristics picked it up as a potential scam after being used for a bit!

Wow, did you get some kind of notification in Edge? Maybe they're trying to detect certain remote desktop sessions used in scams or something.

I've been on a Teams call with a dev colleague, who just randomly clicked stuff and got web popups that were spoofing the Windows 11 UI...

Re: Windows XP Professional

#123
post #91

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Man nothing drives me further up the wall than when a nice progress indicator with discrete segments gets animated with a lazy `to { rotate(360deg); }` etc[1]. It is my molehill to die on [1] https://cdn.dribbble.com/userupload/41647820/file/original-8...

You know talking about progress bars, it takes a lot of confidence to program a linear progress bar. You think you know when loading will be complete and think you know can break down the incremental progress made during loading. Instead we get these spinning wheels that are like "maybe in the future this wheel will stop and we will have a return value." No confidence whatsoever. I know this is true because Apple tri…

There's also the "Achilles and the tortoise" solution where the progress bar consumes the remaining 80% of unclaimed space in each iteration.

Re: Windows XP Professional

#124
post #52

Win XP remains my favourite OS till date. I was in college and getting hands on a pirated copy back then makes me so nostalgic. There was a cambrian explosion of tools to customize the look and feel. TweakXP pro is the one I remember. All pirated off-course.

I remember being extremely envious of the "Alienware theme" that you could only get with an actual Alienware machine. That was surprisingly short-lived though, such custom experiences are uncommon these days. Seems like nobody is theming Windows- they just fill it with crapware.

> Seems like nobody is theming Windows

We found more fun in ricing our linux desktops :) https://reddit.com/r/unixporn

Re: Windows XP Professional

#125

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you just don't like how it looks, or is there something else wrong with it?

It's just moving, it gives no actual indication of progress.

this reminds me of a tool at work that uses a progress bar but the software doesn't calculate the job size so it just fills up quickly and then goes back down again, and repeats endlessly.

Re: Windows XP Professional

#127
post #83

Win XP remains my favourite OS till date. I was in college and getting hands on a pirated copy back then makes me so nostalgic. There was a cambrian explosion of tools to customize the look and feel. TweakXP pro is the one I remember. All pirated off-course.

How was it better than Win2K?

For me the look and feel of Win XP was breath of fresh air compared to Windows 98. WinXP was more user friendly and I was not a power user back then.

Re: Windows XP Professional

#128
post #6

This is a nice replication of the WinXP UI in JS (it is not a virtual machine running in your browser). https://docs.win32.run/ https://github.com/ducbao414/win32.run

It is slightly more than just a UI since all of the applications actually work (you can save and reload for example and still see your previous files too). It seems functional to me! Kudos to the author!

but not command.com

Re: Windows XP Professional

#129
post #50

If you want the real thing: https://lrusso.github.io/VirtualXP/VirtualXP.htm (takes less memory than Miro, at least in Firefox :D)

Crashes the tab on iOS.

Runs just fine on Firefox for Android. Display is stretched to a weird resolution in portrait mode, though.

Re: Windows XP Professional

#130

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It's just moving, it gives no actual indication of progress.

this reminds me of a tool at work that uses a progress bar but the software doesn't calculate the job size so it just fills up quickly and then goes back down again, and repeats endlessly.

I don't have the time to research where I heard this, but I recall a UI focus group study that found pretty much equal user satisfaction between accurate linear progress bars and random progress bars, but universal dissatisfaction with progress bars that "reset". My own feelings mirror this finding.
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