I’ve since moved on to Win11 but sometimes I still miss XP. RIP.

  • teft
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    141 year ago

    Heh. User with password. That didn’t matter so much on XP. It was remarkably easy to erase or reset a password on WinXP.

    • 567PrimeMover
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      61 year ago

      I believe chntpw still works on Win11 even! I know I’ve used it on windows 10 to great effect

    • deadcream
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      21 year ago

      You can easily do this on Linux too if you have physical access to the hard drive and it isn’t encrypted (which is default on most distros).

  • @Virgo
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    141 year ago

    This menu was my childhood

  • @[email protected]
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    31 year ago

    I thought I was a late transitioner, finally retiring from XP in 2014 for Windows 8. Goddamn.

  • @finkrat
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    21 year ago

    This, Vista (with appropriate hardware) and 7 were the last good ones

    Would be cool if someone could leverage the source code leak to patch it up and get it using modern TLS ciphers and harden the kernel and OS, but doubt that will ever happen, too much work.

    • @HeyJoe
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      41 year ago

      I got weird looks when I said I enjoyed 8, but never have I ever heard anyone say they thought Vista was good. I am pretty lenient and I remember testing Vista with a dozen or so pc’s in our company and basically all of them had issues and blue screens. To unstable, so we skipped it. It was basically as bad as ME to me.

    • MxM111
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      31 year ago

      7 was great, but vista was a cancer. They gradually fixed it with 8, 10, 11

      • diprount_tomato
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        -21 year ago

        8 wasn’t good, but it wasn’t the worst. Then 10 is another great windows, but 11 just feels like 10 with a smoother interface+copying Apple

  • sab
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    21 year ago

    Whenever I’m feeling nostalgic I find myself wanting to install something like this. Could also have some degree of shock value on people passing by and recognizing the OS.

  • @BuffLemmyworlder
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    21 year ago

    I also used Windows XP for a much longer time, when everyone was using 7, i was still using XP, first when they stopped supporting XP, did i move onto Windows 10