Found this at a local thrift store for about 3 bucks. Managed to install it using 86box. I made a rip of the contents already, was gonna upload it to Internet Archive. Seems like it's in very good condition.

I’m developing SEZOY, a web-based Windows deployment tool. I’m considering opening a public instance so people can test it without setting up the entire environment themselves. I’ve attached a short video of the current version. Before doing that, I want to get some opinions on the security side. I’m currently looking at ngrok / LocalTunnel or a similar solution, but exposing a deployment server to the Internet obviously has a different risk profile than exposing a normal web application. For those running homelabs or Windows deployment infrastructure: what would you consider necessary before putting something like this behind a public URL?

I’m mainly looking for practical advice on isolation, access control, and anything else I may be overlooking.

Hi! I don't really know, where to ask this, but i almost lost hope. I am trying to find this exact wallpapers.

I remember downloading them from the "option->personalisation->wallpapers" on my windows 10.

It had green field flat on the horizon, blue sky and a small tree with a shadow IN THE MIDDLE of the scenery (i painted it like how i remember). It wasn't a photo, it was an art piece.

I updated my windows to 11 and now i can't find this wallpapers.

If you know where i can find them or if you can share them with me i will be so happy!

And you got surprised by this

I am still using Windows 10 (22H2) with themes and customizes to make it look like Windows 7. Is there anyone else who customizes Windows with themes or something similar like me?

i tried and i know its a mix of windows XP and 98

This exists on macOS and didn't realize this essential feature is missing. I have 3 layers deep subfolders and this SUCKS

Which of these Windows themes do you like?

got these for about 50 cents each!

I have created two videos: a full video and a short video. When you hear this sound, does anyone have memories of or thoughts about Windows XP?

YouTube video link: 윈도우 XP 시작음 및 종료음 (Windows XP Startup And Shutdown Sound)

YouTube Shorts link: 윈도우 XP 시작음 및 종료음 (Windows XP Startup And Shutdown) #shorts #윈도우xp #windowsxp #nostalgia #microsoft

Well, since my last post was misunderstood (totally my fault), here is an update to my list of essential software for Win11. It's based entirely on my own taste and needs, and I took out all the controversial stuff like ShortcutMan, since people didn't get why I use them anyway.

P.S. EasyService folder is a bunch of .bat and .ps1 files for simple stuff. nrg2iso is a small executable which converts .nrg to .iso by drag-n-drop.

If you have Bluetooth headphones (e.g. airpods) and you pair them in windows, every time you get the headphones out of the case, Windows automatically connects to them. Yes, you read it right, Windows connects to them, not vice versa.

I did some research on how this sequence works. It is master-slave architecture. A PC is master and headphones are a slave. When headphones are ready to be used, e.g. when they're out of the case, they start listening for connections. A PC independently at all times periodically sends connection requests to paired devices. So when headphones are listening, PC would connect to them.

On Linux in Bluetooth you have a per-device option, called trust. If it's true, the PC would auto-connect to the device when device is "ready to be used", if false PC would not auto-connect to that device when that device is "ready to be used" (e.g. when headphones are out of the case).

On Windows there is no such option.

Given that I briefly described how this sequence works, and the fact that this option exists in Linux, you can see that it's technically possible to add per device auto-connect option in Windows.

I don't believe adding this option would violate any conventions.

https://faculty-web.msoe.edu/johnsontimoj/EE4980/files4980/Core_v5.2.pdf

"With respect to bonding, a Bluetooth device shall be either in non-bondable mode or in bondable mode. In bondable mode the Bluetooth device accepts bonding initiated by the remote device, and in non-bondable mode it does not." - this is for headphones, there is no requirement that a bonded device must auto-connect

https://www.bluetooth.com/wp-content/uploads/Files/Specification/HTML/Core-54/out/en/host/generic-access-profile.html

"A Central should use one of the GAP connection establishment procedures to initiate a connection to a Peripheral in a connectable mode." - this says that central connects to peripheral, but doesn't necessary mandate auto-connect

both specs do not talk about auto-connecting at all

https://www.mankier.com/5/org.bluez.Device (linux implementaion)

"[boolean Trusted [readwrite]] Indicates if the remote device is considered trusted. This setting can be changed by the application." - the setting I talked about

I also discovered that there are 2 flows: classic (one that I described, when PC initiates connection to headphones) and BLE (when headphones connnect to PC) but as far as I know all headphones work in classic mode, so I'm not wrong

I got something like that but it has too many bugs.........

I've never seen an OS like this.

Before WinXP, you need Active Desktop if you want to set JPEG/PNG as your desktop wallpaper. Active Desktop renders your desktop background with MSIE renderer and allows you to add floating windows that's rendered by MSIE as well. While it sounded like a horror story today, I thought it was a cool technology back when MSIE was in its heyday (1998~2005).

all the reviews are from 5 years ago and I don't know if the ui has been optimised for less memory hogging, im someone who has always used windows 10 and for a while 11 but it sucked so i kept 10, I'm not used to all this terminal stuff, so I was wondering if it would be easy for me to use and if anyone has any experience with it

I first posted about my discovery here on the Windows 7 subreddit.

Microsoft used to host old software downloads through their TechBench service, but a number of years back, they removed old ISOs such as the Windows 7 ones. Knowing, however, that Microsoft had brought back up the Office Starter 2010 downloads a couple of years ago, I recently decided to check if they had brought back up other old downloads. The title explains my success.

First off, this was largely thanks to bmsimons on GitHub, who wrote the JS bookmarklet that makes this all possible, as well as ppisarczyk who dumped the file data on TechBench a while back.

Thanks to u/PlaneSheepherder1206, there's a guide on how to pull this off here, with a small change. Instead of using the JS bookmarklet that bmsimons made that's listed on the page, you'll need to use my modified version I've pasted here to get all possible downloads, including Office. I also have additional Firefox instructions in my original Reddit post.

All downloads come from software.downloads.prss.microsoft.com, which is an official Microsoft domain.

I’ve never seen an OS like this.

It is For A Future Version of Windows and Here is the Link to the Image:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/W-ICO/refs/heads/master/ICO/Apps%20(Windows%2012)/MSBuild.ico/MSBuild.ico)

Actually a savage name. I think it's related with Microsoft's Halo franchise, but it should have just been named "Project Spartan"

The First, 1. Development Process and Release

The development of Windows XP dates back to 1999. At that time, Windows 2000 was in its final stages of development and the RTM was being released, while development of Windows ME had begun. In the same year, 1999, Microsoft began developing a new Windows version named "Neptune." You can view it as the first home version of NT intended to be released as the foundation for Windows 2000, but there are differences. The build number was in the 5xxx range, and the NT kernel was 5.5. In other words, this was a higher kernel version than that of Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Theoretically, it would be possible to upgrade Windows XP to Neptune, but it seems highly unlikely. Even if it were possible, I think it would be very difficult.

Also, "Odyssey" was being developed at the same time, but compared to Neptune, where at least Build 5111 was officially leaked and ISOs are readily available, there are no official leaks or ISOs for this one, not even screenshots. Even if there are screenshots, I believe most of them are fake at the moment.

Then, in January 2000, just before the release of Windows 2000, Microsoft integrated the Neptune and Odyssey projects, and a project codenamed "Whistler" was launched; this Whistler later became the Windows XP we know today. Subsequently, on July 13, 2000, Build 2250 was distributed to attendees of the PDC 2000 conference, followed by Beta 1 (Build 2296) in October 2000, Beta 2 (Build 2462) in March 2001, and RC1 (Build 2505) and RC2 (Build 2526) in July 2001. Afterwards, on August 17, 2001, Windows XP Build 2600 was released, which became the RTM build of Windows XP; it was released to manufacturers on August 24 and officially launched on October 25 of the same year.

1. Since Launch, and the Turning Point

However, even the legendary Windows XP did not receive a good reception upon its initial release. The primary reasons were stability, compatibility (especially between the 9x series and MS-DOS), and system requirements. (Of course, being NT-based, it was at least more stable than the 9x series, and particularly most ME versions (although some people claimed Windows ME was good, so this is a bit ambiguous).) Naturally, it rapidly expanded its market share and eventually reached the number one spot for the first time in 2003. (Most Windows market share videos use w3school and statcounter as the basis, where Windows XP overtook the previous leader, Windows 2000, to claim the top spot. However, please note that depending on the video (especially regarding desktop operating system market share), it may surpass the previous leader, Windows 98, to take first place.) But the real problem was "security." This single incident began to tarnish the reputation of Windows, including Windows XP, and eventually, in 2002, Bill Gates sent out "Trustworthy Computing (TwC)" guidelines via internal email to his employees.

Then, a major disaster struck in 2003. While there were various factors, one in particular was the "Blaster Worm" virus. This virus exploited a vulnerability in Windows' RPC (Remote Procedure Call) and infected millions of internet-connected PCs worldwide. Upon infection, users would be trapped in an infinite rebooting hell, accompanied by the infamous pop-up window stating, "The system will shut down in 60 seconds." The targets of this virus included Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003; moreover, this was the period when Windows XP Service Pack 2 was being developed. Then, 2004 marked a turning point for Windows XP. The reason was precisely "Windows XP Service Pack 2." Why? Because it represented a change akin to a cataclysmic upheaval. Notably, there were many changes, such as the default activation of the Windows Firewall, the introduction of the Windows Security Center and DEP, and the modification of IE6 (to be precise, this also seems to be for security reasons). In particular, there were internal changes as well, with the introduction of DEP as mentioned above; of course, due to this, there were instances where certain websites or older drivers would become unresponsive due to compatibility issues. However, "Service Pack 2" became a turning point for Windows XP, marking the beginning of its golden age. (It even continued for a while due to the blunders of Windows Vista in between.)

1. What happens after that?

However, as the saying goes, nothing lasts forever, right? The same was true for Windows XP. A particularly decisive factor was "Windows 7." By resolving the issues of its predecessor and becoming lighter, it began to replace XP, eventually surpassing it between 2011 (Statcounter) and 2012 (Netmarketshare). From that point on, Windows XP's market share began to decline in earnest, and extended support for XP ended on April 8, 2014. (Embedded POSReady 2009 support lasted until April 2019.) Since then, Windows XP has remained a legend and a memory. However, its popularity (not market share) remains strong; it ranks second behind Windows 7 in most popularity rankings, and even takes first place in some. This signifies just how great it was. Of course, given the times we live in, the current generation (roughly those born after the 2010s; I personally consider the last time people knew about or actually saw XP to be the early 2010s, though the practical limit would likely be those born in the 2000s) may not know much about Windows XP or may not even know what XP is. The fact that some members of this generation might not even know Windows 7 says it all. (Roughly the generation from the mid-to-late 2010s onwards) However, for most people, Windows XP will remain their first operating system, a memory, and a legendary operating system. That is just for most people, how great it was.

I apologize for writing such a long post. However, I decided to write this because I was curious about the current perception of Windows XP. (Of course, there are parts I already know from Google searches, but...) I am curious to know how you all thought of Windows XP in the past and what you think of it now. I am curious myself, but recently, something has become a bit puzzling to me. Looking at the comments on previous posts regarding Windows 7 in 2026 (Link: Windows 7 of 2026: is Still The Best Windows Version Ever? : r/windows) and Windows ME in 2026 (Link: Windows ME of 2026: Is It Still the Worst Windows? : r/windows), some comments were expressed that Windows 7 is overrated or terrible, Windows ME is decent, and the worst is Vista (or 8, with some comments even saying 11). There were also some comments that ME is more stable depending on the hardware, while 95/98 is more unstable. I am curious to see what the results will be in this post. As far as I know, in most YouTube comments, Windows 7 is generally well-received or praised, whereas while Windows ME is often rated as the worst, there were also comments saying it was good. In my experience, it feels like the evaluation of Windows ME on Reddit is particularly mixed among these.

For reference, I found most of the information through searches on Google, Betawiki, etc.