To use Windows XP via Q4OS/XPQ4, download the ISO file for XPQ4 as FreeXP from the developers. The best way to do this is to use the ‘FreeXP live CD image’ option under ‘Downloads.’ ...

This faithful remake of Windows XP is a fun way to relive the past In a post on the Windows subreddit, user ducbao414 showed off one of their projects. It's a pretty faithful recreation of Windows ...

Back on Windows XP, the Disk Defragmenter features a cool UI that showed you a visualization of the data on your disk before and after defragmentation. As a kid, I remember staring at the screen ...

OK, you might not share my passion for the Windows XP taskbar, which is fine (I guess). But maybe you miss the simple grey aesthetic of Windows 2000, or the comforting orb of Vista.

Those rolling green hills of the old Windows XP desktop background could be available once again for those with the hardware and know-how. Image: Gizmodo Imagine it’s 2001.

A Reddit user figured out how to run Windows 11 on a Windows XP computer using a virtual machine. The experiment was conducted on a Windows XP x64 system, utilizing VirtualBox 5.2.44 with ...

I tried it out on my M1 iPad Pro, a device I’ve always wished could do more than it does. Making a virtual machine on which to run Windows is especially easy if you use one of UTM’s pre-built ...

Past ugly sweaters have included a Minesweeper motif, MS Paint, the Windows logo, and the immortal Clippy. Microsoft's ugly sweater site also has wallpapers and a few other retro Easter eggs for ...

You can bypass Microsoft's involvement altogether. The tool, xp_activate32.exe, is a mere 18kb and has been buried in a short thread on the Windows XP subreddit since last August.

Return with me to the Glory Days of Windows XP, which apparently some people, somehow, are still using even though support for it ended in...2014. I don’t know whether to be amazed or horrified ...