ohhh hohoho, it did slow computers down when it just came out, I used to really dislike it, but I agree now, compared to the bullshit we have to deal with nowadays... I do miss how it didn't have nonsense I don't want
Nah. You don't modernize stuff for the sake of modernizing. If it works and there's nothing to improve by modernizing, it's a superfluous endeavor with needless risks.
Windows XP is actually getting more usable, it's so old that malware creators don't bother making viruses for it anymore and with more and more software transitioning to web apps you can use lots of popular software using one of the browsers that are still being supported on the OS.
The thing is there are many computers running xp still out there and there is just SOOOOOO MUCH MALWARE out there that you can literally watch a brand new XP install get infected with dozens of things within mere minutes of connecting to the internet. That and a shit ton of popup messages due to netsend being active by default.
What I miss most is just how it looks, honestly. I've always liked this style of design way more than the modern minimalist flat designs that are so prevalent now.
I'm using a Linux called Q4OS that uses a very old fork of the K Desktop Environment from the early 2000s to recapture that in a more modern way (modern software, etc) and it reminds me a lot of XP. Its Trinity DE is from the same era as XP and it shows. I also hate flat design. It hurts my eyes to look at. I was there when flat UI started in the 80s, with CP/M (literally text with boxes around it), DeskMate, Windows 1.x, and MS-DOS. I didn't miss it then and I sure don't want to relive it now. Flat UI in the 80s was due to hardware limitations. Why are we revisiting it today in an era of 8K monitors capable of so much more? Calling flat design 'modern' is an insult. It's a throwback to the 1980s era of computing, and hardly modern. Modern would equate to new, fresh, and Flat UI is neither.
You and me both. I don't know when humanity collectively decided that buttons without borders, group boxes without borders, or just the absolute lack of clear division between UI elements in general was the way to go. I want a god damn button to look like a button, not just an ill-defined area that I have to mouse-over to even have the hope of getting some sort of highlight that tells me it's maybe clickable. I loathe the modern minimalist flat design where everything melts together.
Another thing that could contribute to people liking xp as much as they do is the standard "bliss" background witch studies have shown actually positivity effect veiwer's moods
That's so cool. It felt very cheerful being around the Windows XP UI. Windows XP was a masterpiece. I almost wanna cry thinking about the fall from grace. Microsoft can do so much better. Windows XP was proof of this ability.
Windows xp was warm and inviting. It had a unique charm with the colorful icons and bright, playful sounds. The UI was simple, and the default background was calm with its lush green field.
I just love the no bloat and how clean it is... you can't format and install windows now without it asking to sign up to office 365, or to either get personalized ads or general ads ( how about no ads? Lmfao) I am 26 and I absolutely love windows XP but grew up on win 98..
Windows xp had that "home" feeling. The extreme number of wallpapers that just felt familiar to us. The simple yet real life looking icons, the friendly workplace. That's what made windows xp fun to look at. Now, it has showed it's age. Having a search bar in the start menu is a must now. The file manager looks outdated nowadays. For me, I can let windows xp rest in peace. But I still have a bone to pick with Microsoft. They really had nailed down the "personalised" feel with windows vista and 7 whilst also moving forward to the future. But, when windows 8,10 and 11 now, everything just feels corporate, blocky simplified icons, no rounded edges (excluding windows 11). And the low number of new wallpapers is just a pain. The only thing they care about now is if you will still use edge,cortana and bing. They have been out of touch for quite a while
@@PauloConstantino167 if you work in IT a search bar especially when setting up a system is a necessity to get to critical back door aspects of a PC like disk partitioning, setting up servers, RAID setups for disks, changing security settings to allow the system to be connected to a network, etc. even on my home PC I regularly reach for the search bar to get to something I need because it's faster than paging through four different tabs in the settings.
@@PauloConstantino167 as someone who mods literally every game I can, you need the searchbar a LOT. To reach appdata easily after finding out gamebreaking mods to, well, get rid of the data, for Backup, for installing older programs and manual patches for software that lost support in 2004. You really do need it for convenience purposes, even if you are a casual user like me.
Lol I never really liked the look of xp, except for a brief time in 2004 and 2005 because I had 9x, but as soon as finally I upgraded to it in 2005(with a computer that could run it) I wanted better look and modifying the os visually, really took off. Since then I never used the default icons and the theme, but I liked the OS itself and I used it till the end of 2014(i was never concerned about security and never had any problems, in fact I didn't even have all the security patches till april 2014, as my update was always off), then I upgraded to 7 and now I am on 10 since 2018.. it was actually less than a year before support for 7 ended... and of course my installation looks nothing like 10, more like 7 mixxed with modded xp. I am not using the defualt start menu, no metro apps at all, in fact the image is so debloated that install takes only 6gb). I still have the disk image of windows xp as I left it before upgrading.. same for windows 7 (I am still using the same custom built pc from 2010.. waiting for scalpers to stop, so I can finally upgrade) btw I tried win 11 on this pc too (bypassed the requirements) and obviously I was too early in october right on release day because there were so many compatibility issues.. not gonna really ding it for that, even tho it was a huge issue (common practice for me is to wait at least a year after the release before really trying out any new os from MS). but I despise the fact they took away most taskbar customization option.. pretty much all you can do is just align the start back to left where it should be.. I do love the redesigned context menus tho.. they even put the option you often use from the old context menu.. that's super great for users who don't take care of their context menus because that isn't easy.
I still remember installing Windows XP on my pc which went into midnight and the awe I got seeing the ui. It was surreal at that time. Can't forget the feeling.
@@johnettipio I don't think they did or maybe i had switched off the audio as my brother was sleeping and i was installing the os late night with the lights off. I had a Creative PCI Sound Card back then.
Windows XP ,it just works . Like 7 , every option or tweak I wanna make is easy to find without hassle . 10 is so convoluted with useless options and menus , I have to google everything I wanna change .
Am I the only person on the planet who LIKES Windows 10? Yeah the menu system in 10 kindof sucks, but stability and speed is almost on par with the Linux systems I use
@@danielthemaniel8601 Whenever I have a fresh Windows 10 install the first thing I do is enable the desktop icons (this PC, my documents, recycle bin etc) in old versions of windows that menu was easy to find on WIn10 I have to search "icon settings" I find myself having to type alot more than I ever did to find things on Win10 than I ever did with older Windows
@@whaduzitmatr Idk for me Fedora Workstation is much faster than windows 10 even with a ryzen 5 1600 and an SSD... Windows today is a spaghetticode disaster, everything has a half second delay to it.
Windows XP just felt so comfortable and 'homely' with its design language. Using Win 8 and onwards, it just feels like im in a digital office building. It's not terrible, but it just doesnt give the comfort that a 'homely' OS would. Wallpaper engine helps an insane amount, i cant stress how instrumental that is in making windows 10 usable.
As a Windows 8.1 user (i can't upgrade to Windows 10 because my notebook is painfully old) i installed a Windows 7 theme and it's miles better than Win 8 and Win 10. Although right now i changed to UwUntu mainly as a joke but i really liked it's UI and customization and that it was generally faster, at heart, i am a Windows user.
XP had -- by far -- the simplest, most elegant, most consistent, and least ambiguous GUI of any operating system ever! You could always tell where buttons were and where to click. And you could always grab windows to drag them around and re-size them. There was always a big, red "close" button, that actually closed applications. You could always tell which window had focus, where the title bar was, and where to type. Drop down options were consistent and actually dropped down. Scroll bars didn't randomly disappear -- they were always there to tell you how far down you were in a document. Oh, how I miss those days!
This is a brilliant observation regarding GUIs. Nowadays, (2023 as of writing) OS companies are too focused on aesthetic visuals as a whole but missing the priority on navigations and buttons.
Not only that, but you could specify window title bar and text colors for active vs background windows (I had grey title bars with darker grey text for background apps and blue with orange title text and a thin red border around the the foreground app's or document"'s window, document or app bkgrd colour (I made a very light parchment to type on and backed off blavk text to a very dark grey, wider persistent scroll bars etc etc. And legacy 98 styling which had thinner straight edged title bars that used up much less screen space. Even button rollover colors etc. Ok, and that was just the appearance! Shall I continue?
Back when XP was released in 2001: Michael Jordan was still playing in the NBA David Beckham was the football icon America was in the middle of an anthrax attack Dial-up Internet was still common Floppy Disks were still used regularly Friends was still running Facebook, Twitter and RUclips didn't exist When XP lost support from Microsoft in 2014: Social Media was common place Rick and Morty season 1 had aired Messi and CR7 were the football icons LeBron James was now the basketball icon Computers and Internet access grew in both the developed and the developing world drastically Streaming services like Netflix had now grown popular Smartphones were everywhere All this happened during the timeline of one operating system. You cannot say the same thing about Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, Vista, 7 or even 10 XP was simply popular during the peak of the tech revolution during the 2000's and early 2010's, which is why many still love it
Interesting but things happen during all OS lifetimes. Which is true is that XP died during the peak of tech revolution. By 2010/2011 most people had moved to 7.
XP was one of my favorite OS’s growing up in the mid 2000s, it ran on a desktop my grandma used to own, and seeing that Bliss Wallpaper and Luna theme always gives me nostalgia of those simpler times…
XP is definitely very nostalgic. That "bliss" wallpaper and that startup sound immediately transport me back to the 2000s. Everything was so much better back then!
XP and 7 were my two favorite operating systems. No bloatware, no spyware, beautiful UI design (though Vista's UI was even more beautiful in my opinion than either of them) and it was fast and responsive. It just worked, and it worked beautifully.
On my laptop with an *Intel Celeron (3rd gen)* the *Windows 10 Photos App* needs around 5 minutes just to switch from a big black box on the screen to a window with the *Photos App* logo in it. Not to mention it takes 2 minutes for that fat black box to even appear. Then it still takes about 15 minutes to load the 1080 x 720 pixels big .jpg onto screen. On the same laptop *IrfanView* (on Windows10) takes one minute from clicking the same .jpg to the point where the image is displayed. With *Linux Mint 20.2 Image Viewer* it takes me four to five seconds to load that same picture. When using *IrfanView* on wine on the same installation of *Linux Mint* it takes 10 seconds to load wine and from there *IrfanView* needs around 8 more seconds to display the same image.
XP was the last OS friendly to colorblind users such as myself, and that’s why I used it for as long as possible. Windows Vista and 7 had the most impossible to see highlight colors! What’s wrong with the dark shade of blue in XP? The transparency was a problem too because it made the title text hard to read. Also, why doesn’t any OS after XP support animated GIF images in the photo gallery app?! You have open them individually in Internet Explorer, which is horrible! Windows 8 and 10 aren’t much better. They finally made the highlight color darker, but now the scrollbar is an impossible to see shade of gray!! I tried a registry hack to darken the color of the scrollbar, but nothing works. I am stuck with an ugly design and unable to change it in modern Windows. In XP you can change the colors of absolutely everything! I usually used the default dark blue scheme, but I sometimes use a custom “night mode” which makes everything in the chrome dark, but at specific shades I am able to see. I don’t understand why Microsoft is making their platform so restrictive, it’s even less customizable than iOS.
You can add start menu and shell replacements to the newer windows which have various degrees of customization, you can even make Windows 10 look like XP.
Windows XP was my and several million others childhood. I think the early 2000 era and youth growing up using it really made it into a solid nostalgic positive compared to literally everyone nowadays using windows and iPhones, it's not a big deal now but it was a big deal back then due to the change of time.
I'm honestly feeling a bit misty eyed reminiscing about XP. It felt like the world was going to become something so much better. I hope we rekindle that feeling as a people
You're absolutely right. Watching this video, at the time you felt like we were going forward. You were excited for the future. You could never imagine that we would actually go backwards from that point. But here we are, going backwards.
Today transgender ideology and medicine is our only hope as a society. We won't be happy as a society until LGBTQIA+ revolution is accepted by our country.
@@michaeldiaczok5636 Umberto Eco published a book about that exact feel. He pinpoints the critical (and negative) moment at the beginning of the millennium, 2001 more precisely. Although he mostly refers to the Italian reality he also takes time to talk about the _air du temps_ in the rest of the world. If anyone is interested the book is published in English under the title Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism
Windows XP defined the golden age of personal computing for the masses. It was like Elvis or the Beatles. Or maybe like the Volkswagen Beetle. Few things hit all the marks so well. I used XP on my main machines for literally 20 years (2001-2021) until finally giving in to Windows 10 just a few months ago! Never had any viruses or security issues in all that time. XP was like the bridge between the floppy disk and smartphone eras.
XP is such a warm bath. The first time an MS OS was stable as could be, did everything you needed and looked super nice as well. And the UI was just perfect, 3-4 clicks and you were in the nitty gritty of most settings.
I'm nostalgic for XP because it reminds me of the old pre social media tech world. The good old days before everyone was online and everthing went crazy. When the internet, tech, gaming etc was niche and your presence online was probably a message board profile. Mostly, I like it because it reminds me of youth, when building pcs and gaming performance was a huge deal in my life.
I think you missed one critical point in favour of XP: It did not bury important stuff like network management or even desktop icons under a pile of useless menus, designed for "simplicity", but that ultimately only manage to frustrate savvy users.
they are all going that way, creating sub menus within sub menus for the illusion of simplicity. which I am glad I am not the only one that sees this as the exact opposite of simple. That said XP started the trend and now it has just gotten way out of control.
@@jamesvinson3998 point I think he is making is you shouldn't have to... I have done the same thing, and every time I am left feeling I should have to spend 1/2 an hour making shortcuts to my most used settings. I use the search bar now more then I ever have cause I plainly refuse to spend half an hour trying to figure out were they think it makes sense to put the setting.
The real reason is that unlike the more modern Windows, Windows XP doesn't act like malware and spy on everything you do. Before Windows 10 you had to get a virus or malware to have a key-logger on your PC to log and send off everything you type. Now it is built into Windows. People don't like that.
@@mparagames Actually it does. We learned about it while I was in technical college for IT. It logs everything you type, and if you read the EULA you agree to them having the ability to look at what you have on your hard drive any time they want, and add or remove whatever they want without your permission. We were even shown the more than page long list of severs Windows 10 is sending your data to. A former Windows employee put it out on his RUclips channel as well.
@@pasamnagalaxmi9299 With Windows 10 using 1.5 to 2.5 gigs of ram at idle vs my Linux Mint Mate 650 to 700 megs of ram, you aren't wrong. Plus no spying. So nice.
This video is honestly making me want to roll back to XP. Every Windows version since feels not only bloated, but less customizable. They feel so impersonal.
Why I'm honestly not getting Windows 11. No thanks, I'm fine. I don't wanna have to spend 4 hours on hardrive shenanigans for a shittier windows I don't need at all.
This was the first Microsoft and computer OS I ever experienced and used. I was a kid in Nigeria in 2005 when my dad bought the first ever computer for our house. He used to work for the Central Bank of my country back then and he needed the computer for work. It was an old COMPAQ desktop and XP was the OS on it. He allowed me play around with it and even at a young age, i found it so easy to use and fun with the design😌😌
Windows XP just feels homely. Also nostalgia plays a big part for me. Just the memories of growing up as a kid, getting a home pc that had windows 98 and then upgrading to XP. The memories of playing Monkey Island many years ago, the school years of coming home playing Runescape and chatting to friends on MSN. Just so much nostalgia with XP. Hits ya in the feels.
@@raven4k998 What frustrates me is the amount of bloat on a "clean" win 10 / win 11 install.. "do you want personalized ads or generic ads" How about no FKN ads??? I paid for the OS..
Windows XP was the very last Windows operating system that I actually loved. To date, XP was probably the most stable Windows OS that has ever existed. It was extremely rare that I ever had a problem with it and when I did, it was always something very minor. Every OS that Microsoft has released since XP has been a total shit show and is the reason why I am now primarily a Mac user, LOL. I would still be using XP today if I could. That rolling hills wallpaper, that startup sound.....so much 2000s nostalgia!
@@richard35791 Trash,don't even ask about it. Windows XP > Windows 7 easy, just on the sole reason of control. You want to delete System32 in Windows XP ? Go ahead. Administrator privileges and "not using administrator account" ? No problem in XP. Whatever you wanted to do in XP you could, no questions asked, no restrictions. EVERYTHING after XP has been produced with sole purpose of tracking users, XP was made with innovation and usability in mind. There's a difference when you want to make a good OS for user, and when you want to make OS to track users and earn money off them.
@thetimekillerx 100% true, XP most stable, easy, when compared to 7, let alone 10. I used XP since year of 2004, all the way to 2016, had like handful of crashes. To be honest, I just had to google to even remember how BSOD looked like on XP, thats how rarely I've seen it. Any problem was solvable on XP. You have footage of Windows 10 updating in middle of broadcasts, that's embarrassing and bad OS, as well as 7 crashing randomly. Windows XP gave us all the freedom in the world, I dont need an OS to be my parent and pretend like it cares for me. OS should do my bidding at all cost, even if I mess something up, my fault, my accountability, dont act like you care for real if my OS crashes, you're just using that to argue. Fact that military still uses XP says it all. If you like being restricted and submissive, by all means, go for it. Some of us are not betas.
The last point is how I feel about it. I see XP as relating directly to a time when there was true optimism for the future, and a batter more tolerant world through communication.
It has such an iconic presentation. Everyone knows the startup and shutdown music, the little animation of the files flying from the globe, and the desktop backgrounds it comes with.
Even today I'm still love this OS with ALL my heart. It was the OS that made me choose the IT career. Sometimes, when I'm feeling nostalgic I use custom skins and icon packs to make my windows 10 like windows xp so I can relive those precious moments of my life.
Speaking about custom skins - Windows XP had a huge catalogue of custom UI that was available (Stardock Windowblinds anyone?), that could make XP look like from Vista to OSX to other custom themes. It's like some sort of modding scene which died out with XP…
Windows XP, like Vista, gets a lot of points from me on virtue of not using flat design. Minimalism never grew on me, if anything I find it uglier everytime I look back at the softwares from the skeuomorphism era. XP and Vista's GUIs both look beautiful, as do many programs from that era (*ahem* msn messenger).
@@plottwist1733 Or at least an option, that's all we want. That way, both camps are happy. Those who like the detailed and/or translucent look of XP, Vista and 7, and those who like the flat look of 8 and 10.
I loved Vista. I started from Windows 95B on my first home pc right on the eve of 98 releasing. Tried ME, was useable, then XP came out. Got it 3 days after it released. It was buggy as hell, crashed the whole system alot. When Service Pack 1 came out, it fixed all those issues completely. I built a pc to handle Vista so I had all the bells and whistles. I found it great, rock solid and I also loved the skeuomorphism.
I studied computer at high school back 1998 and we used 95 and other 9x versions. I have worked with all Windows versions since then and I can tell that the only one that is unforgettable is XP and hardware made me move from it. Great video.
Right when they decided to quit updating XP I happened to be chatting with a sales person from Microsoft. Her explanation was that computers had grown so much that updating would not bring in new consumers so that XP would just bleed the company dry. In other words, they wanted to soak you for more money, and they did. Secondly, I know of a company that still runs XP. Well over 250 computers, all linked for this business. All outside information is passed into a division before it's uploaded for safety.
We still use XP at work. Granted, the computers are in a closed network and they run specific software, but everything still works fine as long as the hardware works.
XP feels like home, it's what I had at home (though 95 was my first OS) and at school. It's where I really learned how to use a computer, where I played my online pet games and posted on forums. It reminds me of a simpler time when the computer/internet was a fun playground completely seperate from the real world- as compared to today where it's always on hand, everything is constantly connected, and the mystique is gone. I use 10 at work, I have a macbook for college work/art but they're just tools. They have no emotional or sentimental attachment.
I completely agree. On forums, people would be more 'anonymous' and not use a picture of themselves. The internet felt like a different place. I was younger then so I might be biased from nostalgia, but I miss how the internet used to be.
No. Many of XP's problems were not fixed until Vista and 7. Chief among them was having drivers in kernal space, as XP did. That alone was a stability nightmare.
@@jonah1976I never had problems with XP. The only thing you had to do a lot to put a clean install on the same computer starting with the nic drivers and so forth. ThAt was not fun but good thing a co worker in the ,IS department reinstalled the whole system for my computer. 73
It was simple, colorful, friendly. It didn't take up so much space. It didn't require much hardware. It gave you more freedom than the systems that followed. It was like for home users unlike the office style of Vista and Windows 7. It was your friend. Windows 10/11 are not your friend. They are spying on you. I still use Windows 7 as the last real Windows.
MICROSOFT... I HOPE YOU ARE READING THIS AND YOU BETTER YOU FUCKS! I STILL USE Windows XP, Windows Vista 64-bit and Windows 7 64-bit OS! YOUR CURRENT "METRO" OS's ARE FUCKING TRASH COMPARED TO THE FORMER & MORE POPULAR!
I grew up on XP, so windows 7 was the future for me. By the time I got a new computer, it was running windows 10, so I didn't get to experience windows 7 except in school. It still feels futuristic even though it's older than the current OS, so I run an aero theme now.
@@SCIFIguy64 For me, windows xp was my childhood, while windows 7 was from about 11-17. I have a lot of nostalgia for both and, while Windows 10 is good, I don't have the same nostalgia for it even though I have Windows 11 now.
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Had Windows XP on my old laptop from 2012 until 2018. Pretty much one of the best operating systems out there. It was practically easy for everyone to use, lightweight and just got the job done.
the most important and mostly overlooked reason why XP was so great and user friendly was the large user base and longevity, if you had a problem with windows XP, there was a 99.999% chance that someone else had the exact same problem before you, a 99% chance that a solution to that problem was found and a 90% chance that someone mentioned this solution in a forum post somewhere that a simple google search would unearth for you.
Yes, I remember having Windows XP on my computer in my room when I was in elementary school. Back then, it seemed so new and shiny. I played games on it and started using the internet. More than 10 years later, I had the same Windows XP on my computer at work. I miss that system, the way it looked and sounded. Nostalgia is doing its thing here.
Same! I've been primarily a Mac user since 2010, but I LOVED Windows XP. Every operating system that Microsoft has released since XP has been utter garbage that is filled with bloatware, which is why I am now a Mac user, LOL.
Windows XP and Windows 7 were, and still are the Operating System kings. The fact that the two OSes didn't come preinstalled with bloatware like Candy Crush, didn't constantly pester you with notifications, the fact the two looked revolutionary at their time, didn't limit customization, and the fact that all their preinstalled programs were actually useful, it was like Microsoft put user experiences first before marketability (Looking at YOU Windows 10).
Man, so MUCH nostalgia. I was born in 1995 and I grew up with XP. So many hours spent playing 3D Pinball and Spider Solitaire. Does anybody else miss Clippy? Just so much time spent with this OS, it carried me all the way through high school. RIP XP 💖💖💖
His name's actually Clippit. And _hell yeah!_ Messing around with the DOS prompt in fullscreen on XP was amazing. It's partly what motivated me to enter my career as an embedded software engineer. Does anyone remember the secret OOBE music file hidden deep in the bowels of the XP system files? It was such a magical thing to discover through rumors in RUclips comment chains, only for my young self to dig around through the cryptic OS binaries and files and triumphantly stumble upon this supposed easter egg of music.
XP is the last usable OS for a lot of older sound hardware thanks to changes in Vista. It has support for hardware that is post-Vista for graphics cards and some chipsets as well, making it a beautiful choice for pre-2009-or-so gaming.
This should be a huge point in this video that, a lot of peripherals just won't work with Vista and so on. This may also be why a lot of companies still choose to use XP.
Windows Vista also came out around the time people switched from 32 bit to 64 bit. 32 bit Vista would generally work with most drivers but the 64-bit version required new ones.
not only this manny games from the 90s arnt running without other tool on modern systems xp was is the last one everythink runns fine i myself have a xp pc especely for older games
XP and 7 are still my favourite operating systems. They're user friendly and no-nonsense. I still use these OS on some systems of mine as it covers all my needs for software and game compatibility. Nostalgia doesn't hurt it either. Whilst I started on 98, XP was definitely my gatweay to the world of computers, I don't think i'd be the savvy tech saviour I am without it. As also mentioned, when assisting older people or people with lower budgets, I have found these OS to be way simpler for them, only needing to do the simple tasks they need to do, without bloatware, annoying random updates forced upon them. Also in some cases there can be some security in obscurity.
My windows 7 systems crush my windows 10 systems In office Performance because windows 10 uses so much resources and the UI is slow. Even when equally spec’d out or even if windows 10 is more spec’d out I would continue to use windows 7 for my office if new tech and software still supported windows 7 For example. Some new wifi routers or internet cable modem providers don’t recognize windows 7 wifi Some new printers can’t be recognized by windows 7 devices. Adobe creative suite doesn’t even work on windows 7 anymore. Etc Other than that it is Windows 7 all day.
Seeing that UI made me sad, I had made myself forget how much better XP is than anything today. That start menu, the chess account Icon, the round 3d windows, the shutdown icons, we've gone backwards in UI design. I wish spider solitaire pinball and minesweeper were still included in windows.
I miss clicking on that "All programs" tab after opening the Start menu, and have my eyes assaulted with a million folders of all my installed programs... honestly, way better than scrolling down because I forgot the name of an old program.
@@MrFreakHeavy yeah, terrible design decision. I never went back to "all programs" since the introduction of search in Vista. In all fairness, "all programs" in Win 10 isn't that much better, it's still a dyslexic mess.
The reason to it's still my favorite Windows to this day, despite running Linux for all my daily uses now, is three-fold: 1. The complete experience. Everything seemed complete and worked together in one eco system. The UI of XP's most used applications shared the same simple, but user-friendly styling, colors and fonts, while still not requiring huge amounts of RAM and CPU. This stands in huge contrast to Windows of today, where things as crucial as the control panel have been in a broken/half finished state since Windows 8, for no reason! Heck, the new Settings page makes it even more difficult to find settings and many are hidden in sub-sub-sub-menus. This point is to some degree fulfilled with Windows 7 as well. 2. Privacy. No sneaky telemetry services and forced updates. You are in control of your PC. 3. Resources. Windows XP doesn't demand huge amounts of hardware resources to run and doesn't need over 50 background services to keep your PC running. Try to install even Windows 7 and see how many services and svchost.exe's are running and using your CPU without your control.
Completely agree on number 1. XP (and 7) feels like complete product compared to what we have now. Windows 10 still gets funky sometimes after multiple updates, even explorer bugged out, it's pathetic really. Newer windows harasses you with "suggestions" and I feel like I keep getting products and services shoved down my throat on every corner. How anti-consumer of you, MS. Every time I have a fresh windows installation now the first thing I'd do would be purging bloatwares and telemetry. Also why haven't they tackled the setting/control panel UI/UX nightmare?? Sometimes a setting you're searching for is on Settings, other ones in Control Panel, sometimes you get ping-pong'd between the two. Wtf?
I loved XP. I loved it so much when I got a Vista-loaded laptop, I "downgraded" to XP. It really was my favorite. If they re-released it with modern hardware support and updated the security, it would be great. I'd be willing to pay for it. I have to use it as a VM because two programs I use will not work on anything past XP even if I use compatability mode. I hate the bloat that develops push into their software just because they can. Microsoft (and conversely Windows) is no exception. Even turning off so many of the "features" still barely scratches the huge resource consumption.
I was actually born the year XP came out, but i have a lot of nostalgia for it. Not only did my first hand-me-down laptop run Windows XP, but my school's computers ran Windows XP up until like 2014 until they upgraded to Windows 7.
Totaly agreed. WinXP was adjustable, easily navigated into and intuitively understandable. In modern OS all tuning and preferencies are hidden from user. This enrages me every time when i face new installed win 10 (I haven't even seen win11 yet, but believe me, i am really trembling in fear of what i am going to see and work with...). Currently working on customized win 10 with deleted bullshit like preinstalled antiviruses (or antimalware module or how it called...), firewall, forced updates etc.
Until today, my dad still have his Windows XP to use, as a designer and also for digital printing apps, this OS is super cool and the most compatible for the printer drivers.
Oh that startup sound is so satisfying, it has all the right bells and whistles. It's bloatware-free software, and toy-like appearance (as he mentioned) that made it fun to use, and that background, that showed how green the grass can get on the other side. And of course, the ability to back up your expensive cd's in case they got stolen. It just worked! Windows XP 2.0 with upgraded angelical sounds. 😁👍🏽
I didn't upgrade because I had my system exactly how I wanted it, with data and software I couldn't afford to lose. I just disconnected it from the internet and bought a laptop for the upgrades. I love my XP to this day 😊
Wow, this video really took me back! I am a Tech & started working on Computers professionally around 2007. I have installed XP on SO MANY TIMES! The shop i worked for back than would install XP on older machines we would resell. With a RAM upgrade most of them ran XP like a champ. We even installed XP on a lot of old IBM ThinkPad 600's which had Pentium 1's. Fun Fact, if your machine didnt support booting from a CD Drive, Microsoft had a program that would create 6 floppy disks for you. These floppy's would build the pre boot environment & your CD would take over once you were ready to install. P.S. i have a copy of Windows Neptune!
Windows XP was what started my love towards operating systems. I remember my mom upgrading from Win7 (which I always respected) to Win10 and it just took forever... When I started highschool I bought a Win10 notebook and it was cool, but felt empty, hollow even... I think my love for OSes died, but then I got into Linux, and now, 5 years later, switch between using it skinned as XP and 95. Even though I never used 95, I love the aesthetic. Even though I am a hard core linux user, WinXP just feels like home.
I am a MacOS user, and I tried Linux based OS in between, but I can safely say that XP was the last OS where we all met and then walked to our different paths.
I actually didn't enjoy XP all that much when it was popular, but now that it has been some time, I do feel fondly of it now. :) I would love to use a time machine and go back to the 60s to see my favorite bands perform!
Yea the problem with the 2000s and later is that the internet changes a lot and it can't really be replicated very well if you want a 90s or 80s computing experience just get a emulator or try to find a old used pc and it will be similar to how it was back then i remember the early 2000s but i was not as open minded as i am now so i missed out on a lot of stuff that i thought would exist forever.
Why I love Windows XP you ask? Because of that saying that goes "the beauty is in simplicity." XP was simple, but beautiful system. And of course, it didn't have this amount of bloatware like Windows 10. You just installed what you wanted, any program could run on it and I've spent most of my childhood and teenage years with XP as main OS. And of course, the look of XP. It looks so friendly and cozy and of course, who doesn't remember the iconic startup, shutdown and generally system sounds from XP? It's a system, that may have been killed by Microsoft, but it still lives in our heart as the most beloved system ever.
I love Win 98 SE because it was so magically imperfect, created at the dawn of the internet, built on top of the MS-DOS, wonky, charming and still stuck in the past. But Windows XP was a very clear step into the future of PCs. Great UI/UX, internet and media consumption oriented, NT-based... Certainly felt magical in the year 2002-3 when we finally upgraded our PC to run it.
Yea, XP was very magical when it was new and you upgraded to it. There was so much colors everywhere and it felt.... homely. It was just, completley different from anything people were used to at the time. I upgraded a few family computers to XP from 98 and every single time it felt wonderful because it looked a billion times better afterwards.
windows XP just had everything you needed from an OS, and the software market didn't do much to kill it like it did to so many OS in the past. if Microsoft tried the same market strategy they tried with windows 10 during the windows XP era, we would probably be still running a modern version of windows XP today
XP ain't clunky, it was a straight to the point OS, an example of a clunky system is no doubt Windows 10, I've never seen such a horrible disaster of an OS
When XP just came out and a lot of people were still running P2 and P3 machines, all the graphical "enhancements" were really slowing things down until these were disabled and XP was made to look more like ME. I remember a lot of people swearing when they had just upgraded due to a unfamiliar interface (some called it a fisherprice interface) and everything rounded off... not until SP2 was released and people had gotten used to the interface, the OS started to be appreciated... Funnily enough, @nationsquid mentions in the video that people though that Win 7 was just Vista rebranded and he wasn't very far off the mark... If you installed Vista with the latest SP and patches and disabled all the eye-candy, you'd have a very difficult time telling them apart in both performance and stability...
I think 8 was worse, but yeah 10 sux, I can't believe it, not to mention the hybrid stuff between Legacy (XP Control Panel) and New (Conf Settings) is still a mess and we end up running commands to open a specific ocnfiguration because surfing between two absolutely different layouts and options is such a pain... I can't believe Win11 is following the same, at this point I will never move from Linux and Windows7
and yet it came with a lot of cool things (movie maker, sample music, nice games), so this proves you can go full-featured without going clunky, and unclunky without going featureless like chrome OS)
Windows XP was a lot like Flex Tape, it just worked. What I really enjoyed about Windows XP was the stability and reliability. I knew I could install just about anything on it and not worry too much. I also really liked how customizable it was. It was the last generation that really felt like it wanted you to customize it and had a ton of support. There were hundreds of sites where you could go and get new desktop themes with custom cursors and sound effects. These days Microsoft themselves provide very little support for their desktop themes outside of a small pack of backgrounds. XP was just the last system that really embraced giving a fun user experience, which I think was somewhat reflected in that "toy like" environment.
The US military is currently in the process of upgrading from XP to 7. They expect to finish the transition only a couple years after support for Windows 7 ends.
@@codezero7981 it was less like the "new XP" and more like the "vista is finally out of beta and functions properly now." which was still fucking great mind you. same thing with 10 just being 8, but not shit.
btw, do people remember there was a short time during the Windows 7 introduction, a workaround called "Windows 7 XP Mode" ? No, not Compatibility Mode This was only for few months within the release of Windows 7 when the majority of software didn't officially support Windows 7. Including internet browsers
How is it that this got a tear in my eye? I am not emotional but this was something that got me so nostalgic and kind of sad... I am a 2000 kid (87 to be precise) my memories of this time are so magical... where did we go wrong? Did the social media and the times really destroy the magic? If I had a time machine I would jump back no question and pray that it never ends. Oh btw I got the Messenger working on win 10 in closed system. We use it in my company 😍
Glad to know I was not alone. I got emotional watching the video. So many memories with the OS. My MSI Netbook that ran WinXp just died last December 2021. Haaaay...
OK boomer. Lol no I'm not being mean, we all do this when we get older. We think everything was better in "them days". It wasn't really. Childhood is a magical time for most people (if you're lucky enough to be in a stable environment), before we got crushed by the horrible weight of the adult world.
OK so I just got stupid nostalgic over SP2 for some reason that I cannot explain. Imagine getting nostalgic over that lol. It was such a big deal at the time tho. I don't remember why, I just remember being excited and carefully making myself an integrated disc.
I switched to Linux quite a while ago, but despite the dark theme, you can see a lot of XP design elements I chose to implement. It makes me happy to have such a familiar design language to work in.
I am still using windows xp to this day, and it is quite easy to use even today. The only thing is to not do online banking or any sensitive stuff on it but for other things it work well.
Beyond familiarity, the fact that running the 32-bit version meant it had a lot of cross-compatibility with Windows 9x games, including those rare 16-bit in that era. (usually that was a Windows 3x gaming thing) Additionally, a lot of us have old hardware that's still perfectly functional, but whose drivers stopped being supported or were downright buggy, like you mentioned. In my case it's an audio interface, specifically the M-Audio Fasttrack Ultra, which while it has good Windows XP drivers, the last ones were only up to Vista, and while they DID work on 7, if the device were to turn off or unplug due to how crap the USB-B connections are, the audio wouldn't just hang, the entire OS would BSOD 100% of the time. And before any of you say there were stable drivers for 7 or 8.1 for that interface, I should point out that's only for the black casing revision, while I own the original blue one. When I was taking sound design in college I didn't want to requisition their audio gear or studio to work on my assignments, especially considering I had similar quality gear at home (albeit old). due to the driver issue I had to set up a Windows XP VM and passthrough the Fasttrack Ultra onto it so I could get some proper quality recording done, but it worked, everything was crisp while my colleagues who also didn't bother with requisitions used their headset mics for the dialog/voices recordings.
While XP isnt my favourite OS, it comes in second place. What can I say, Windows 7 basically perfected everything XP set out to do. It kept it simple for most people, but greatly enhanced the system utilities (much of that can attributed to Vista though) and just generally looked and felt great. Also it didnt have search dog, which is a bonus.
@@kanalisationerstellen I found it to be way faster, but I was also running it on appropriate hardware People said the same thing when they upgraded from XP to Vista because at the time most consumers weren't really paying attention to the fact that their machines were massively out of date.
@@deadturret4049 The problem was that Vista was too heavy to run properly even on some new machines back then. Many stores offered downgrades to XP because Vista was too slow.
it was my teenage years, which is probably why it holds a dear place in my heart. the fact that the OS was built under having things easily visible was just icing on the cake. the nice, cool blue colors on rounded icons. the iconic soundfonts that sounded both like the older 95-98 with new sounds. menu navigation was very easy and often fun to work through. and the best part: no regression back into hieroglyphs to figure out what program it is.
Hearing the sounds of this OS makes me think back at my childhood, when things were simple and good. It gives the visuals and sounds such a warm and nice feeling. I still remember Saturday evenings before dinner when I used to play Age of Empires with my dad on our computer, or a few years later Star Wars Battlefront.
Age of empire was my go to game as well. How fun it was. XP made it all possible. Internet was a fun place and looked like it would make everyone happy. unfortunately, internet just did the opposite.
Compatibility and stability were the keys making XP so great, my mom could still use her old version of Office, and I could play old games I've owned, innovating without interfering the old things we already had.
That's honestly a big part of XPs appeal It was the last version of windows where MS really gave a shit about legacy support. Vista dropping that mindset and launching with all kinds of old software and hardware not working on it created this huge rift that defined the end of an era that Windows XP was the final swan song of.
Windows XP was by far, the best version of Windows EVER. I hate Windows 8-11, and consider Windows 7 the newest version that doesn't give me a headache to use. And since you brought it up at 10:46, thank God no one in my family ever purchased any sequels to Sid Meier's Civilization. I may have never made it college and might still be glued to the computer chair at 4 a.m. 🖥️
I was waiting for this comment. With Win XP x64 you can still run it on modern hardware and you have amazing performance. Plus there are some compatibility updates from communties and with the ATM registry hack you got updates till 2019 for free ;-)
A year ago I was installing XP on some old computer we had in our computer lab because our teacher either needed it or just wanted to show us how to install XP, it was fun
I still have a HDD that contains a heap of old windows XP era software, games and drivers. Makes me want to install them on a PC just for a trip down the memory lane.
I was a diehard XP fan for years and still have a soft spot for it to this day. My reasons were simple really; it did everything I wanted to do and did it well. I knew where everything was and the hardware was well able for it. I never understood the "Fisher Price" criticism; it was easy to turn off the theme and revert to a Windows 2000 style. Vista was too slow on the hardware of the time, I remembered thinking that you needed an SSD (not cheap in those days) to run it well. I also didn't like the UI changes. It was the first real overhaul of the UI since Windows 95 and I remember niggly things annoying me such as the removal of the File Types tab and the icon placement behaviour on the desktop. To me, Windows 7 was "Malibu Stacy with a new hat" or "lipstick on a pig". Just Vista with a new taskbar. So I never understood why it was so popular. Maybe that proved Microsoft's Mojave experiment to be true?
I love your little references in the video lol "KaBlam episode 7" hahaha! Man I haven't thought of that show in yeeeaaarrssss. Prometheus and Bob was great.
Oh how I miss thee Windows XP. The best Windows operating system ever. That lush green background, simplistic icons yet beautiful and so straightforward and efficient. Streamlined and had few issues with it. I will always have fond memories of it.
I'm just binge watching all of this channel, brings the boomer in me happy. Fun fact, there's people I know still using XP, and that's crazy. It refuses to be defeated, and good... after all it was the big daddy of windows versions.
I fell in love with xp when I found the backup disks for my dad's Dell laptop. I loaded it onto my Dimension L600cx and it was like buying a new computer. Even before upgrading from the celeron 600mhz to a plll 933mhz and going from 64mb to 512mb of ram, everything ran so smoothly
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I miss this OS so much. No bullshit, no bloat, it didn't slow the computer down. It just did what it needed to and did it well. The peak of Microsoft.
ohhh hohoho, it did slow computers down when it just came out, I used to really dislike it, but I agree now, compared to the bullshit we have to deal with nowadays... I do miss how it didn't have nonsense I don't want
@@LovelyAlanna I don't recall it slowing anything, but we also jumped on it pretty late in '05 or '06.
@@LovelyAlanna actually XP became so good after SP2. before that, home user are still prefer using Win 98 SE as their main OS
I am looking forward to what Microsoft does next with Windows 11! Maybe it will be another thing like XP! We shall see! :)
Don't forget windows 10's forced updates that slow down your computer even more
Hearing that the US military still uses windows XP is both a testament to how solid the os was and an alarming concern at the same time
Nah. You don't modernize stuff for the sake of modernizing. If it works and there's nothing to improve by modernizing, it's a superfluous endeavor with needless risks.
I'd imagine that if they upgraded, they would have to make everything computer controlled windows 10.
The only risk of using xp is having active Internet connection, if it's offline there's nothing to be concerned about, I believe
@@netrezv sure if it is ALWAYS offline then it shouldn't be an issue but if it goes online at all there could be major problems
@@netrezv They just pay microsoft to keep supporting a version of XP just for them.
Windows XP is actually getting more usable, it's so old that malware creators don't bother making viruses for it anymore and with more and more software transitioning to web apps you can use lots of popular software using one of the browsers that are still being supported on the OS.
That is quite a fair point actually! It's so old it's no longer even a desired target anymore. Still be careful with it though! :)
I dont think many platforms are going to web apps, but rather desktop apps, but there are still plenty of examples....
My wish are probably too good to be true, i hope some day there would be a modded XP that has DX12 (or atleast DX11) support.
The thing is there are many computers running xp still out there and there is just SOOOOOO MUCH MALWARE out there that you can literally watch a brand new XP install get infected with dozens of things within mere minutes of connecting to the internet. That and a shit ton of popup messages due to netsend being active by default.
@@kg4boj but it's your job to find a way to disable the popups and avoid viruses
What I miss most is just how it looks, honestly. I've always liked this style of design way more than the modern minimalist flat designs that are so prevalent now.
I'm using a Linux called Q4OS that uses a very old fork of the K Desktop Environment from the early 2000s to recapture that in a more modern way (modern software, etc) and it reminds me a lot of XP. Its Trinity DE is from the same era as XP and it shows.
I also hate flat design. It hurts my eyes to look at. I was there when flat UI started in the 80s, with CP/M (literally text with boxes around it), DeskMate, Windows 1.x, and MS-DOS. I didn't miss it then and I sure don't want to relive it now. Flat UI in the 80s was due to hardware limitations. Why are we revisiting it today in an era of 8K monitors capable of so much more? Calling flat design 'modern' is an insult. It's a throwback to the 1980s era of computing, and hardly modern. Modern would equate to new, fresh, and Flat UI is neither.
Windows xp was minimalist and had so much going on at the same time
@@realslimsh8y XP IS better and not minimalist compared to windows 10 and 11
You and me both. I don't know when humanity collectively decided that buttons without borders, group boxes without borders, or just the absolute lack of clear division between UI elements in general was the way to go. I want a god damn button to look like a button, not just an ill-defined area that I have to mouse-over to even have the hope of getting some sort of highlight that tells me it's maybe clickable. I loathe the modern minimalist flat design where everything melts together.
Fr I miss the grass
Another thing that could contribute to people liking xp as much as they do is the standard "bliss" background witch studies have shown actually positivity effect veiwer's moods
Interesting! Thanks for sharing that! :)
Biology with technology
woah, real witch studies?
It's mostly the green.
That's so cool. It felt very cheerful being around the Windows XP UI. Windows XP was a masterpiece. I almost wanna cry thinking about the fall from grace. Microsoft can do so much better. Windows XP was proof of this ability.
Windows xp was warm and inviting. It had a unique charm with the colorful icons and bright, playful sounds. The UI was simple, and the default background was calm with its lush green field.
it had max care :)
I use a 4 monitor variant of the same image because it's so cozy
I love how u mention that wallpaper cuz bliss was legend✨️, and i can tell u how lovely my desktop was cuz it had a bunch of emo stuff😂
I just love the no bloat and how clean it is... you can't format and install windows now without it asking to sign up to office 365, or to either get personalized ads or general ads ( how about no ads? Lmfao)
I am 26 and I absolutely love windows XP but grew up on win 98..
i agree
Windows xp had that "home" feeling. The extreme number of wallpapers that just felt familiar to us. The simple yet real life looking icons, the friendly workplace. That's what made windows xp fun to look at. Now, it has showed it's age. Having a search bar in the start menu is a must now. The file manager looks outdated nowadays. For me, I can let windows xp rest in peace. But I still have a bone to pick with Microsoft. They really had nailed down the "personalised" feel with windows vista and 7 whilst also moving forward to the future. But, when windows 8,10 and 11 now, everything just feels corporate, blocky simplified icons, no rounded edges (excluding windows 11). And the low number of new wallpapers is just a pain. The only thing they care about now is if you will still use edge,cortana and bing. They have been out of touch for quite a while
lol search bar may be a must for you. it's not for me. never used a search bar. that is so lazy!
@@PauloConstantino167 OK smartass, not everyone organises their files as good as you
@@PauloConstantino167 if you work in IT a search bar especially when setting up a system is a necessity to get to critical back door aspects of a PC like disk partitioning, setting up servers, RAID setups for disks, changing security settings to allow the system to be connected to a network, etc.
even on my home PC I regularly reach for the search bar to get to something I need because it's faster than paging through four different tabs in the settings.
@@PauloConstantino167 as someone who mods literally every game I can, you need the searchbar a LOT. To reach appdata easily after finding out gamebreaking mods to, well, get rid of the data, for Backup, for installing older programs and manual patches for software that lost support in 2004. You really do need it for convenience purposes, even if you are a casual user like me.
Lol I never really liked the look of xp, except for a brief time in 2004 and 2005 because I had 9x, but as soon as finally I upgraded to it in 2005(with a computer that could run it) I wanted better look and modifying the os visually, really took off. Since then I never used the default icons and the theme, but I liked the OS itself and I used it till the end of 2014(i was never concerned about security and never had any problems, in fact I didn't even have all the security patches till april 2014, as my update was always off), then I upgraded to 7 and now I am on 10 since 2018.. it was actually less than a year before support for 7 ended... and of course my installation looks nothing like 10, more like 7 mixxed with modded xp. I am not using the defualt start menu, no metro apps at all, in fact the image is so debloated that install takes only 6gb).
I still have the disk image of windows xp as I left it before upgrading.. same for windows 7 (I am still using the same custom built pc from 2010.. waiting for scalpers to stop, so I can finally upgrade)
btw I tried win 11 on this pc too (bypassed the requirements) and obviously I was too early in october right on release day because there were so many compatibility issues.. not gonna really ding it for that, even tho it was a huge issue (common practice for me is to wait at least a year after the release before really trying out any new os from MS). but I despise the fact they took away most taskbar customization option.. pretty much all you can do is just align the start back to left where it should be.. I do love the redesigned context menus tho.. they even put the option you often use from the old context menu.. that's super great for users who don't take care of their context menus because that isn't easy.
I still remember installing Windows XP on my pc which went into midnight and the awe I got seeing the ui. It was surreal at that time. Can't forget the feeling.
Did your sound drivers work? If they were working, you get to hear the welcome music (title.wma) as you finished the setup.
@@johnettipioonly build in speaker can heard those. Mine using normal PC speaker never heard anything Even using usb
That's so cool that you got to experience that! I wish I had been around to witness XPs launch
@@johnettipio I don't think they did or maybe i had switched off the audio as my brother was sleeping and i was installing the os late night with the lights off. I had a Creative PCI Sound Card back then.
@@eggyshells yeah true
Windows XP ,it just works .
Like 7 , every option or tweak I wanna make is easy to find without hassle .
10 is so convoluted with useless options and menus , I have to google everything I wanna change .
Windows XP and 7 did have that advantage of being easy to understand for sure. :)
Am I the only person on the planet who LIKES Windows 10? Yeah the menu system in 10 kindof sucks, but stability and speed is almost on par with the Linux systems I use
@@whaduzitmatr I've never had any issues navigating windows 10 but that's probably just the turbonerd in me lmao
@@danielthemaniel8601 Whenever I have a fresh Windows 10 install the first thing I do is enable the desktop icons (this PC, my documents, recycle bin etc) in old versions of windows that menu was easy to find on WIn10 I have to search "icon settings" I find myself having to type alot more than I ever did to find things on Win10 than I ever did with older Windows
@@whaduzitmatr Idk for me Fedora Workstation is much faster than windows 10 even with a ryzen 5 1600 and an SSD... Windows today is a spaghetticode disaster, everything has a half second delay to it.
Windows XP is 20 years old this September, Let's all commemorate September as "XP month"
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i thought it was released in october, or was that the gamecube? i don’t remember
I agree! That is crazy to think it is that old! Thank you for watching! :)
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Windows XP just felt so comfortable and 'homely' with its design language.
Using Win 8 and onwards, it just feels like im in a digital office building. It's not terrible, but it just doesnt give the comfort that a 'homely' OS would.
Wallpaper engine helps an insane amount, i cant stress how instrumental that is in making windows 10 usable.
Windows 8 is gay and African American
Windows 11 is as yellow as my Chinese ass.
win 8 is the worst
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As a Windows 8.1 user (i can't upgrade to Windows 10 because my notebook is painfully old) i installed a Windows 7 theme and it's miles better than Win 8 and Win 10.
Although right now i changed to UwUntu mainly as a joke but i really liked it's UI and customization and that it was generally faster, at heart, i am a Windows user.
How could I not love Windows XP if I almost never had any problems? Now with the latest version I have to look for some keys to fix it.
When one was happy and didn't know it hahaha BNH Software helped me with all those things
XP had -- by far -- the simplest, most elegant, most consistent, and least ambiguous GUI of any operating system ever!
You could always tell where buttons were and where to click. And you could always grab windows to drag them around and re-size them. There was always a big, red "close" button, that actually closed applications. You could always tell which window had focus, where the title bar was, and where to type. Drop down options were consistent and actually dropped down. Scroll bars didn't randomly disappear -- they were always there to tell you how far down you were in a document.
Oh, how I miss those days!
Great analysis. I miss all those little things
Nonsense. Windows 2000 was concise. XP was a mess.
This is a brilliant observation regarding GUIs. Nowadays, (2023 as of writing) OS companies are too focused on aesthetic visuals as a whole but missing the priority on navigations and buttons.
Man... Never thought about it that way but you're right! That's why I can do most things on this system faster than on Win11.
Not only that, but you could specify window title bar and text colors for active vs background windows (I had grey title bars with darker grey text for background apps and blue with orange title text and a thin red border around the the foreground app's or document"'s window, document or app bkgrd colour (I made a very light parchment to type on and backed off blavk text to a very dark grey, wider persistent scroll bars etc etc. And legacy 98 styling which had thinner straight edged title bars that used up much less screen space. Even button rollover colors etc. Ok, and that was just the appearance! Shall I continue?
Back when XP was released in 2001:
Michael Jordan was still playing in the NBA
David Beckham was the football icon
America was in the middle of an anthrax attack
Dial-up Internet was still common
Floppy Disks were still used regularly
Friends was still running
Facebook, Twitter and RUclips didn't exist
When XP lost support from Microsoft in 2014:
Social Media was common place
Rick and Morty season 1 had aired
Messi and CR7 were the football icons
LeBron James was now the basketball icon
Computers and Internet access grew in both the developed and the developing world drastically
Streaming services like Netflix had now grown popular
Smartphones were everywhere
All this happened during the timeline of one operating system. You cannot say the same thing about Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, Vista, 7 or even 10
XP was simply popular during the peak of the tech revolution during the 2000's and early 2010's, which is why many still love it
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Well the only disappointing disadvantage is that I, an idiot was born
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I can say that Windows 7 also had a start when tech was booming,
but can't say the same for when it ended, the ending was sad.... Very very sad....
Interesting but things happen during all OS lifetimes. Which is true is that XP died during the peak of tech revolution. By 2010/2011 most people had moved to 7.
XP was one of my favorite OS’s growing up in the mid 2000s, it ran on a desktop my grandma used to own, and seeing that Bliss Wallpaper and Luna theme always gives me nostalgia of those simpler times…
XP is definitely very nostalgic. That "bliss" wallpaper and that startup sound immediately transport me back to the 2000s. Everything was so much better back then!
XP and 7 were my two favorite operating systems. No bloatware, no spyware, beautiful UI design (though Vista's UI was even more beautiful in my opinion than either of them) and it was fast and responsive. It just worked, and it worked beautifully.
*Windows XP shutdown theme plays.*
Nostalgia comes back so hard that it feels like a slap in the face and a kick in the balls.
Looks like I did my job then! Thank you for watching! :)
@@nationsquid Lol, thanks for making great content.
Windows XP can legitimately log me out and right back in way faster than the default photos app in Windows 10 can load up a picture
Oh my god yes! What is up with windows 10 photo viewer? How hard is it to display a jpeg!
That's... true
This is why I use the legacy Windows Photo Viewer (the Windows 7 one) as a Windows 10 user.
@@alexander_strachan samee
On my laptop with an *Intel Celeron (3rd gen)* the *Windows 10 Photos App* needs around 5 minutes just to switch from a big black box on the screen to a window with the *Photos App* logo in it. Not to mention it takes 2 minutes for that fat black box to even appear. Then it still takes about 15 minutes to load the 1080 x 720 pixels big .jpg onto screen. On the same laptop *IrfanView* (on Windows10) takes one minute from clicking the same .jpg to the point where the image is displayed.
With *Linux Mint 20.2 Image Viewer* it takes me four to five seconds to load that same picture. When using *IrfanView* on wine on the same installation of *Linux Mint* it takes 10 seconds to load wine and from there *IrfanView* needs around 8 more seconds to display the same image.
XP was the last OS friendly to colorblind users such as myself, and that’s why I used it for as long as possible. Windows Vista and 7 had the most impossible to see highlight colors! What’s wrong with the dark shade of blue in XP? The transparency was a problem too because it made the title text hard to read. Also, why doesn’t any OS after XP support animated GIF images in the photo gallery app?! You have open them individually in Internet Explorer, which is horrible! Windows 8 and 10 aren’t much better. They finally made the highlight color darker, but now the scrollbar is an impossible to see shade of gray!! I tried a registry hack to darken the color of the scrollbar, but nothing works. I am stuck with an ugly design and unable to change it in modern Windows. In XP you can change the colors of absolutely everything! I usually used the default dark blue scheme, but I sometimes use a custom “night mode” which makes everything in the chrome dark, but at specific shades I am able to see. I don’t understand why Microsoft is making their platform so restrictive, it’s even less customizable than iOS.
In 7 you could just use classic theme or the high contrast themes (the high contrast themes are in 8 and 10 too)
Windows still has High contrast mode
You can add start menu and shell replacements to the newer windows which have various degrees of customization, you can even make Windows 10 look like XP.
Windows 10 has a colorblind mode, dude. I'm colorblind.
Windows 10 is so bad a lot of people can't even see it lmao.
Windows XP was my and several million others childhood. I think the early 2000 era and youth growing up using it really made it into a solid nostalgic positive compared to literally everyone nowadays using windows and iPhones, it's not a big deal now but it was a big deal back then due to the change of time.
I'm honestly feeling a bit misty eyed reminiscing about XP. It felt like the world was going to become something so much better. I hope we rekindle that feeling as a people
You're absolutely right. Watching this video, at the time you felt like we were going forward. You were excited for the future. You could never imagine that we would actually go backwards from that point. But here we are, going backwards.
Today transgender ideology and medicine is our only hope as a society. We won't be happy as a society until LGBTQIA+ revolution is accepted by our country.
1 word - reliability to the core.
@@michaeldiaczok5636 Umberto Eco published a book about that exact feel. He pinpoints the critical (and negative) moment at the beginning of the millennium, 2001 more precisely. Although he mostly refers to the Italian reality he also takes time to talk about the _air du temps_ in the rest of the world. If anyone is interested the book is published in English under the title Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism
@@ofHerWord XD
Windows XP defined the golden age of personal computing for the masses. It was like Elvis or the Beatles. Or maybe like the Volkswagen Beetle. Few things hit all the marks so well. I used XP on my main machines for literally 20 years (2001-2021) until finally giving in to Windows 10 just a few months ago! Never had any viruses or security issues in all that time. XP was like the bridge between the floppy disk and smartphone eras.
XP is such a warm bath. The first time an MS OS was stable as could be, did everything you needed and looked super nice as well. And the UI was just perfect, 3-4 clicks and you were in the nitty gritty of most settings.
I'm nostalgic for XP because it reminds me of the old pre social media tech world. The good old days before everyone was online and everthing went crazy.
When the internet, tech, gaming etc was niche and your presence online was probably a message board profile.
Mostly, I like it because it reminds me of youth, when building pcs and gaming performance was a huge deal in my life.
I think you missed one critical point in favour of XP: It did not bury important stuff like network management or even desktop icons under a pile of useless menus, designed for "simplicity", but that ultimately only manage to frustrate savvy users.
My biggest pet peeve with all post-7 versions of Windows.
@@bchristian85 I know how to make all the important stuff easily accessible. I got quite adept at using computers over the years.
they are all going that way, creating sub menus within sub menus for the illusion of simplicity. which I am glad I am not the only one that sees this as the exact opposite of simple. That said XP started the trend and now it has just gotten way out of control.
@@jamesvinson3998 point I think he is making is you shouldn't have to... I have done the same thing, and every time I am left feeling I should have to spend 1/2 an hour making shortcuts to my most used settings. I use the search bar now more then I ever have cause I plainly refuse to spend half an hour trying to figure out were they think it makes sense to put the setting.
I don't get why Windows 10 insists on throwing all layers of menus at you. Just let me get to my games.
The real reason is that unlike the more modern Windows, Windows XP doesn't act like malware and spy on everything you do. Before Windows 10 you had to get a virus or malware to have a key-logger on your PC to log and send off everything you type. Now it is built into Windows. People don't like that.
i mean, windows 10 - 11 might come with a lot of bloat but not a keylogger or stuff malicious like that
@@mparagames Actually it does. We learned about it while I was in technical college for IT. It logs everything you type, and if you read the EULA you agree to them having the ability to look at what you have on your hard drive any time they want, and add or remove whatever they want without your permission. We were even shown the more than page long list of severs Windows 10 is sending your data to. A former Windows employee put it out on his RUclips channel as well.
@@michaelcox9855 hm... what's the video?
I use linux cause windows gives lower performance and is malicious
@@pasamnagalaxmi9299 With Windows 10 using 1.5 to 2.5 gigs of ram at idle vs my Linux Mint Mate 650 to 700 megs of ram, you aren't wrong. Plus no spying. So nice.
This video is honestly making me want to roll back to XP. Every Windows version since feels not only bloated, but less customizable. They feel so impersonal.
Yeah. Love my Windows 10 but I prefer 2000’s aesthetic to today’s flat, boring looks.
You could install a modern Linux distro and then install a theme designed to look like (or even replicate) Windows XP.
@@IsmailofeRegime thanks for the suggestion! I actually just started using Linux for the first time this week, so I'll look into that.
The Windows XP source code was leaked last year, we can hope for a fixed version...maybe :p
Why I'm honestly not getting Windows 11. No thanks, I'm fine. I don't wanna have to spend 4 hours on hardrive shenanigans for a shittier windows I don't need at all.
This was the first Microsoft and computer OS I ever experienced and used. I was a kid in Nigeria in 2005 when my dad bought the first ever computer for our house. He used to work for the Central Bank of my country back then and he needed the computer for work. It was an old COMPAQ desktop and XP was the OS on it. He allowed me play around with it and even at a young age, i found it so easy to use and fun with the design😌😌
Windows XP just feels homely. Also nostalgia plays a big part for me. Just the memories of growing up as a kid, getting a home pc that had windows 98 and then upgrading to XP. The memories of playing Monkey Island many years ago, the school years of coming home playing Runescape and chatting to friends on MSN. Just so much nostalgia with XP. Hits ya in the feels.
and it runs faster than newer windows versions to boot kiddo🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
RuneScape in 2006 was my unbeatable
yep, runescape and MSN and then games like sims etc... good times man..
@@henrik1743 imagine if you got it to work on a modern computer man would it be so much faster then shiity windows 10 or windows 11
@@raven4k998 What frustrates me is the amount of bloat on a "clean" win 10 / win 11 install.. "do you want personalized ads or generic ads" How about no FKN ads??? I paid for the OS..
Windows XP was the very last Windows operating system that I actually loved. To date, XP was probably the most stable Windows OS that has ever existed. It was extremely rare that I ever had a problem with it and when I did, it was always something very minor. Every OS that Microsoft has released since XP has been a total shit show and is the reason why I am now primarily a Mac user, LOL. I would still be using XP today if I could. That rolling hills wallpaper, that startup sound.....so much 2000s nostalgia!
Windows 7?
@@richard35791 Trash,don't even ask about it.
Windows XP > Windows 7 easy, just on the sole reason of control.
You want to delete System32 in Windows XP ? Go ahead.
Administrator privileges and "not using administrator account" ? No problem in XP.
Whatever you wanted to do in XP you could, no questions asked, no restrictions.
EVERYTHING after XP has been produced with sole purpose of tracking users, XP was made with innovation and usability in mind.
There's a difference when you want to make a good OS for user, and when you want to make OS to track users and earn money off them.
@thetimekillerx I bet you are not assuming what I think, I just bet.
@thetimekillerx 100% true, XP most stable, easy, when compared to 7, let alone 10.
I used XP since year of 2004, all the way to 2016, had like handful of crashes.
To be honest, I just had to google to even remember how BSOD looked like on XP, thats how rarely I've seen it.
Any problem was solvable on XP.
You have footage of Windows 10 updating in middle of broadcasts, that's embarrassing and bad OS, as well as 7 crashing randomly.
Windows XP gave us all the freedom in the world, I dont need an OS to be my parent and pretend like it cares for me.
OS should do my bidding at all cost, even if I mess something up, my fault, my accountability, dont act like you care for real if my OS crashes, you're just using that to argue.
Fact that military still uses XP says it all.
If you like being restricted and submissive, by all means, go for it.
Some of us are not betas.
I didn’t expect to get emotional & feel nostalgia over seeing videos of an old operating system. Such a simpler time 🥺
agreed, imo. 👍👍
The last point is how I feel about it. I see XP as relating directly to a time when there was true optimism for the future, and a batter more tolerant world through communication.
It has such an iconic presentation. Everyone knows the startup and shutdown music, the little animation of the files flying from the globe, and the desktop backgrounds it comes with.
Even today I'm still love this OS with ALL my heart. It was the OS that made me choose the IT career. Sometimes, when I'm feeling nostalgic I use custom skins and icon packs to make my windows 10 like windows xp so I can relive those precious moments of my life.
Speaking about custom skins - Windows XP had a huge catalogue of custom UI that was available (Stardock Windowblinds anyone?), that could make XP look like from Vista to OSX to other custom themes. It's like some sort of modding scene which died out with XP…
Where do you get the skins for Windows 10? Or maybe 11..
Windows XP, like Vista, gets a lot of points from me on virtue of not using flat design. Minimalism never grew on me, if anything I find it uglier everytime I look back at the softwares from the skeuomorphism era. XP and Vista's GUIs both look beautiful, as do many programs from that era (*ahem* msn messenger).
I agree! I want skeumorphism to come back! And I hope it does!
I wish more software would let us have an option to revert back to their old non-flat designs
Yeah. I hope the trend of everything having a sterile, minimalist design dies out soon. It's so uninspiring. Hurts the soul to look at.
@@plottwist1733 Or at least an option, that's all we want. That way, both camps are happy. Those who like the detailed and/or translucent look of XP, Vista and 7, and those who like the flat look of 8 and 10.
I loved Vista. I started from Windows 95B on my first home pc right on the eve of 98 releasing. Tried ME, was useable, then XP came out. Got it 3 days after it released. It was buggy as hell, crashed the whole system alot. When Service Pack 1 came out, it fixed all those issues completely. I built a pc to handle Vista so I had all the bells and whistles. I found it great, rock solid and I also loved the skeuomorphism.
I studied computer at high school back 1998 and we used 95 and other 9x versions. I have worked with all Windows versions since then and I can tell that the only one that is unforgettable is XP and hardware made me move from it. Great video.
Right when they decided to quit updating XP I happened to be chatting with a sales person from Microsoft. Her explanation was that computers had grown so much that updating would not bring in new consumers so that XP would just bleed the company dry. In other words, they wanted to soak you for more money, and they did. Secondly, I know of a company that still runs XP. Well over 250 computers, all linked for this business. All outside information is passed into a division before it's uploaded for safety.
We still use XP at work. Granted, the computers are in a closed network and they run specific software, but everything still works fine as long as the hardware works.
That is something you will still see in a lot of businesses! Many grocery stores often still run Windows 98 on their registers!
@@nationsquid Hey, long as it's not on the public internet, have at. Why fix what isn't broken?
Some of the sand machines at my dad's foundry still use either 95 or 98 as well
@@cashkromsupernerd1193 Apparently Nintendo's online servers for multiplayer use Windows 98 as well... -_-
Same here. Not connected to any network but runs the building security. Controlled by VMware esxi
XP feels like home, it's what I had at home (though 95 was my first OS) and at school. It's where I really learned how to use a computer, where I played my online pet games and posted on forums.
It reminds me of a simpler time when the computer/internet was a fun playground completely seperate from the real world- as compared to today where it's always on hand, everything is constantly connected, and the mystique is gone.
I use 10 at work, I have a macbook for college work/art but they're just tools. They have no emotional or sentimental attachment.
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I completely agree. On forums, people would be more 'anonymous' and not use a picture of themselves. The internet felt like a different place. I was younger then so I might be biased from nostalgia, but I miss how the internet used to be.
I'm 52 years old. Windows XP was the best Microsoft did.
No. Many of XP's problems were not fixed until Vista and 7. Chief among them was having drivers in kernal space, as XP did. That alone was a stability nightmare.
@@jonah1976I never had problems with XP. The only thing you had to do a lot to put a clean install on the same computer starting with the nic drivers and so forth. ThAt was not fun but good thing a co worker in the ,IS department reinstalled the whole system for my computer. 73
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It was simple, colorful, friendly. It didn't take up so much space. It didn't require much hardware. It gave you more freedom than the systems that followed. It was like for home users unlike the office style of Vista and Windows 7. It was your friend. Windows 10/11 are not your friend. They are spying on you. I still use Windows 7 as the last real Windows.
MICROSOFT... I HOPE YOU ARE READING THIS AND YOU BETTER YOU FUCKS! I STILL USE Windows XP, Windows Vista 64-bit and Windows 7 64-bit OS! YOUR CURRENT "METRO" OS's ARE FUCKING TRASH COMPARED TO THE FORMER & MORE POPULAR!
@Windows XP hello, old friend.
It ran well on anything from a 300 MHz Pentium II with 128 MB of RAM to a Sandy Bridge i7 with 4GB of RAM.
@@honkhonkler7732 oh yes it fid on the ibm aptiva
yes Win7 was the only good last try, but this is gone 8-11 are crap
Windows XP and Windows 7 were hands down the best operating systems of all time.
Pinball was my passion on Windows XP
ok boomer
I grew up on XP, so windows 7 was the future for me. By the time I got a new computer, it was running windows 10, so I didn't get to experience windows 7 except in school. It still feels futuristic even though it's older than the current OS, so I run an aero theme now.
@@SCIFIguy64 For me, windows xp was my childhood, while windows 7 was from about 11-17. I have a lot of nostalgia for both and, while Windows 10 is good, I don't have the same nostalgia for it even though I have Windows 11 now.
@@MegaCygnusX1 ok kid
I really like all the design layouts throughout Windows XP. I’d love to see a future Windows with a stock layout selector.
I spent my entire childhood on windows XP
Surely will get it on my computer once again
The Grapevine whispers that Elon is going to buy M-S out, and clean-up that horrifying mess -- all cooks and NO chefs!
And, that the new system that will never be replaced, only updated and supported in perpetuity for SMALL PAYMENT by users, and which is to be named The Elon! (What else?)
And the next cleanup project after . . . Y-T !!
Had Windows XP on my old laptop from 2012 until 2018. Pretty much one of the best operating systems out there. It was practically easy for everyone to use, lightweight and just got the job done.
the most important and mostly overlooked reason why XP was so great and user friendly was the large user base and longevity, if you had a problem with windows XP, there was a 99.999% chance that someone else had the exact same problem before you, a 99% chance that a solution to that problem was found and a 90% chance that someone mentioned this solution in a forum post somewhere that a simple google search would unearth for you.
Yes, I remember having Windows XP on my computer in my room when I was in elementary school. Back then, it seemed so new and shiny. I played games on it and started using the internet. More than 10 years later, I had the same Windows XP on my computer at work. I miss that system, the way it looked and sounded. Nostalgia is doing its thing here.
Even currently as a Mac user, I still love Windows XP. It's my most familiar operating system ever and also the first OS I used in my life.
Same! I've been primarily a Mac user since 2010, but I LOVED Windows XP. Every operating system that Microsoft has released since XP has been utter garbage that is filled with bloatware, which is why I am now a Mac user, LOL.
Windows XP and Windows 7 were, and still are the Operating System kings. The fact that the two OSes didn't come preinstalled with bloatware like Candy Crush, didn't constantly pester you with notifications, the fact the two looked revolutionary at their time, didn't limit customization, and the fact that all their preinstalled programs were actually useful, it was like Microsoft put user experiences first before marketability (Looking at YOU Windows 10).
Nicely said. Thank you!
Man, so MUCH nostalgia. I was born in 1995 and I grew up with XP. So many hours spent playing 3D Pinball and Spider Solitaire. Does anybody else miss Clippy? Just so much time spent with this OS, it carried me all the way through high school. RIP XP 💖💖💖
my favorite assistant was links the cat personnally. I still use it on my XP VM which I use sometimes
His name's actually Clippit. And _hell yeah!_ Messing around with the DOS prompt in fullscreen on XP was amazing. It's partly what motivated me to enter my career as an embedded software engineer. Does anyone remember the secret OOBE music file hidden deep in the bowels of the XP system files? It was such a magical thing to discover through rumors in RUclips comment chains, only for my young self to dig around through the cryptic OS binaries and files and triumphantly stumble upon this supposed easter egg of music.
Real legends remember helping Microsoft Sam fly his Roflcopter
I grew up with XP! I remember even getting to run Garry's Mod on it, with pretty decent framerates. Was awesome.
Love to hear that! I was never into Garry's Mod myself but I remember it being huge then. :)
XP is the last usable OS for a lot of older sound hardware thanks to changes in Vista. It has support for hardware that is post-Vista for graphics cards and some chipsets as well, making it a beautiful choice for pre-2009-or-so gaming.
This should be a huge point in this video that, a lot of peripherals just won't work with Vista and so on. This may also be why a lot of companies still choose to use XP.
Vista fucked up windows
Windows Vista also came out around the time people switched from 32 bit to 64 bit. 32 bit Vista would generally work with most drivers but the 64-bit version required new ones.
not only this manny games from the 90s arnt running without other tool on modern systems xp was is the last one everythink runns fine i myself have a xp pc especely for older games
XP and 7 are still my favourite operating systems. They're user friendly and no-nonsense.
I still use these OS on some systems of mine as it covers all my needs for software and game compatibility. Nostalgia doesn't hurt it either.
Whilst I started on 98, XP was definitely my gatweay to the world of computers, I don't think i'd be the savvy tech saviour I am without it.
As also mentioned, when assisting older people or people with lower budgets, I have found these OS to be way simpler for them, only needing to do the simple tasks they need to do, without bloatware, annoying random updates forced upon them. Also in some cases there can be some security in obscurity.
My windows 7 systems crush my windows 10 systems In office Performance because windows 10 uses so much resources and the UI is slow.
Even when equally spec’d out or even if windows 10 is more spec’d out
I would continue to use windows 7 for my office if new tech and software still supported windows 7
For example. Some new wifi routers or internet cable modem providers don’t recognize windows 7 wifi
Some new printers can’t be recognized by windows 7 devices.
Adobe creative suite doesn’t even work on windows 7 anymore. Etc
Other than that it is Windows 7 all day.
Yeah, but there's really something lacking about them now tho.
@@earldominic3467 what are they lacking in?
@@TerryKashat bloatware
Windows 7 is basically my base platform in my head. I remember everything on it. It was like windows xp refreshed. Vista was absolute garbage.
Seeing that UI made me sad, I had made myself forget how much better XP is than anything today. That start menu, the chess account Icon, the round 3d windows, the shutdown icons, we've gone backwards in UI design.
I wish spider solitaire pinball and minesweeper were still included in windows.
Oh yeah yeah :)
I was born in 1993 and I have the same amount of nostalgia for Windows 98. Never really liked XP, tbh, I don't know why...
I swear, I have a virtual machine running XP just to play Pinball and stare at the system's design
@@LechuKawaii and do you use it for watching your favorite р0гп?
I miss clicking on that "All programs" tab after opening the Start menu, and have my eyes assaulted with a million folders of all my installed programs... honestly, way better than scrolling down because I forgot the name of an old program.
@@MrFreakHeavy yeah, terrible design decision. I never went back to "all programs" since the introduction of search in Vista. In all fairness, "all programs" in Win 10 isn't that much better, it's still a dyslexic mess.
you're correct about the Fisher Price appearance. 1st thing I did when I finished installing XP is changing to classic Windows 98 style theme
Both are far superior to the flat crap that's the trend these days.
you should've used the Royale Noir theme from MCE.
The reason to it's still my favorite Windows to this day, despite running Linux for all my daily uses now, is three-fold:
1. The complete experience. Everything seemed complete and worked together in one eco system. The UI of XP's most used applications shared the same simple, but user-friendly styling, colors and fonts, while still not requiring huge amounts of RAM and CPU. This stands in huge contrast to Windows of today, where things as crucial as the control panel have been in a broken/half finished state since Windows 8, for no reason! Heck, the new Settings page makes it even more difficult to find settings and many are hidden in sub-sub-sub-menus. This point is to some degree fulfilled with Windows 7 as well.
2. Privacy. No sneaky telemetry services and forced updates. You are in control of your PC.
3. Resources. Windows XP doesn't demand huge amounts of hardware resources to run and doesn't need over 50 background services to keep your PC running. Try to install even Windows 7 and see how many services and svchost.exe's are running and using your CPU without your control.
Completely agree on number 1. XP (and 7) feels like complete product compared to what we have now. Windows 10 still gets funky sometimes after multiple updates, even explorer bugged out, it's pathetic really. Newer windows harasses you with "suggestions" and I feel like I keep getting products and services shoved down my throat on every corner. How anti-consumer of you, MS. Every time I have a fresh windows installation now the first thing I'd do would be purging bloatwares and telemetry.
Also why haven't they tackled the setting/control panel UI/UX nightmare?? Sometimes a setting you're searching for is on Settings, other ones in Control Panel, sometimes you get ping-pong'd between the two. Wtf?
I loved XP. I loved it so much when I got a Vista-loaded laptop, I "downgraded" to XP. It really was my favorite. If they re-released it with modern hardware support and updated the security, it would be great. I'd be willing to pay for it. I have to use it as a VM because two programs I use will not work on anything past XP even if I use compatability mode. I hate the bloat that develops push into their software just because they can. Microsoft (and conversely Windows) is no exception. Even turning off so many of the "features" still barely scratches the huge resource consumption.
I remember always watching the Windows XP tour presentation, the first time I've seen it.. it felt magical.
That is awesome! Especially for its time, it really was magical!
I really like Windows 7 because it was the first OS I used heavily, so I think the "nostalgia" some people have with XP, I have with 7
I liked Windows 7 a lot too. That was the one that "got the job done" for me. :)
Same and wow those sample Win7 images are common as pfps
Me too I have been using windows 7 for almost 12 years
Win XP was great for a home use, but for everything else, it was just... bad. Unsecure, spagetti-coded monolith.
@@nationsquid dude did you take down your Columbine documentary?!?! :(
I was actually born the year XP came out, but i have a lot of nostalgia for it. Not only did my first hand-me-down laptop run Windows XP, but my school's computers ran Windows XP up until like 2014 until they upgraded to Windows 7.
Totaly agreed. WinXP was adjustable, easily navigated into and intuitively understandable. In modern OS all tuning and preferencies are hidden from user. This enrages me every time when i face new installed win 10 (I haven't even seen win11 yet, but believe me, i am really trembling in fear of what i am going to see and work with...).
Currently working on customized win 10 with deleted bullshit like preinstalled antiviruses (or antimalware module or how it called...), firewall, forced updates etc.
Until today, my dad still have his Windows XP to use, as a designer and also for digital printing apps, this OS is super cool and the most compatible for the printer drivers.
"Whatever we do, where ever we go ,
he will allways be with us"
-Unknown Windows XP user
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Oh that startup sound is so satisfying, it has all the right bells and whistles. It's bloatware-free software, and toy-like appearance (as he mentioned) that made it fun to use, and that background, that showed how green the grass can get on the other side.
And of course, the ability to back up your expensive cd's in case they got stolen.
It just worked!
Windows XP 2.0 with upgraded angelical sounds. 😁👍🏽
What I like most about XP is the look and feel of the interface. I wish Open Shell could do more to replicate it.
I didn't upgrade because I had my system exactly how I wanted it, with data and software I couldn't afford to lose. I just disconnected it from the internet and bought a laptop for the upgrades. I love my XP to this day 😊
Wow, this video really took me back! I am a Tech & started working on Computers professionally around 2007. I have installed XP on SO MANY TIMES! The shop i worked for back than would install XP on older machines we would resell. With a RAM upgrade most of them ran XP like a champ. We even installed XP on a lot of old IBM ThinkPad 600's which had Pentium 1's. Fun Fact, if your machine didnt support booting from a CD Drive, Microsoft had a program that would create 6 floppy disks for you. These floppy's would build the pre boot environment & your CD would take over once you were ready to install. P.S. i have a copy of Windows Neptune!
Which build? 5111?
Windows XP was what started my love towards operating systems. I remember my mom upgrading from Win7 (which I always respected) to Win10 and it just took forever... When I started highschool I bought a Win10 notebook and it was cool, but felt empty, hollow even... I think my love for OSes died, but then I got into Linux, and now, 5 years later, switch between using it skinned as XP and 95. Even though I never used 95, I love the aesthetic.
Even though I am a hard core linux user, WinXP just feels like home.
Same
I am a MacOS user, and I tried Linux based OS in between, but I can safely say that XP was the last OS where we all met and then walked to our different paths.
I wish I was present in the early 2000s to be able to experience this while it was used.
This is why time travel needs to be invented!
I actually didn't enjoy XP all that much when it was popular, but now that it has been some time, I do feel fondly of it now. :)
I would love to use a time machine and go back to the 60s to see my favorite bands perform!
Yea the problem with the 2000s and later is that the internet changes a lot and it can't really be replicated very well if you want a 90s or 80s computing experience just get a emulator or try to find a old used pc and it will be similar to how it was back then i remember the early 2000s but i was not as open minded as i am now so i missed out on a lot of stuff that i thought would exist forever.
i can’t stop rewatching your videos, your way of explaining keeps me intrigued for some reason. :)
Why I love Windows XP you ask? Because of that saying that goes "the beauty is in simplicity." XP was simple, but beautiful system. And of course, it didn't have this amount of bloatware like Windows 10. You just installed what you wanted, any program could run on it and I've spent most of my childhood and teenage years with XP as main OS. And of course, the look of XP. It looks so friendly and cozy and of course, who doesn't remember the iconic startup, shutdown and generally system sounds from XP? It's a system, that may have been killed by Microsoft, but it still lives in our heart as the most beloved system ever.
I love Win 98 SE because it was so magically imperfect, created at the dawn of the internet, built on top of the MS-DOS, wonky, charming and still stuck in the past.
But Windows XP was a very clear step into the future of PCs. Great UI/UX, internet and media consumption oriented, NT-based... Certainly felt magical in the year 2002-3 when we finally upgraded our PC to run it.
completely agree my friend
Yea, XP was very magical when it was new and you upgraded to it. There was so much colors everywhere and it felt.... homely. It was just, completley different from anything people were used to at the time. I upgraded a few family computers to XP from 98 and every single time it felt wonderful because it looked a billion times better afterwards.
windows XP just had everything you needed from an OS, and the software market didn't do much to kill it like it did to so many OS in the past. if Microsoft tried the same market strategy they tried with windows 10 during the windows XP era, we would probably be still running a modern version of windows XP today
Why People Love Windows XP, my 2 cents: Beause it looked inviting, it worked fine, and it wasn't bloated spyware like Windows 10 and 11.
XP ain't clunky, it was a straight to the point OS, an example of a clunky system is no doubt Windows 10, I've never seen such a horrible disaster of an OS
Fair enough! Thanks for watching! :)
When XP just came out and a lot of people were still running P2 and P3 machines, all the graphical "enhancements" were really slowing things down until these were disabled and XP was made to look more like ME. I remember a lot of people swearing when they had just upgraded due to a unfamiliar interface (some called it a fisherprice interface) and everything rounded off... not until SP2 was released and people had gotten used to the interface, the OS started to be appreciated... Funnily enough, @nationsquid mentions in the video that people though that Win 7 was just Vista rebranded and he wasn't very far off the mark... If you installed Vista with the latest SP and patches and disabled all the eye-candy, you'd have a very difficult time telling them apart in both performance and stability...
Explain in detail what is wrong with Windows 10. I'm interested to see what you have to say.
I think 8 was worse, but yeah 10 sux, I can't believe it, not to mention the hybrid stuff between Legacy (XP Control Panel) and New (Conf Settings) is still a mess and we end up running commands to open a specific ocnfiguration because surfing between two absolutely different layouts and options is such a pain... I can't believe Win11 is following the same, at this point I will never move from Linux and Windows7
and yet it came with a lot of cool things (movie maker, sample music, nice games), so this proves you can go full-featured without going clunky, and unclunky without going featureless like chrome OS)
Windows XP was a lot like Flex Tape, it just worked. What I really enjoyed about Windows XP was the stability and reliability. I knew I could install just about anything on it and not worry too much. I also really liked how customizable it was. It was the last generation that really felt like it wanted you to customize it and had a ton of support. There were hundreds of sites where you could go and get new desktop themes with custom cursors and sound effects. These days Microsoft themselves provide very little support for their desktop themes outside of a small pack of backgrounds. XP was just the last system that really embraced giving a fun user experience, which I think was somewhat reflected in that "toy like" environment.
This lamb concurs.
The US military is currently in the process of upgrading from XP to 7. They expect to finish the transition only a couple years after support for Windows 7 ends.
that's awesome cuz Windows 7 was the new XP
@@codezero7981 it was less like the "new XP" and more like the "vista is finally out of beta and functions properly now." which was still fucking great mind you.
same thing with 10 just being 8, but not shit.
btw, do people remember there was a short time during the Windows 7 introduction, a workaround called "Windows 7 XP Mode" ? No, not Compatibility Mode
This was only for few months within the release of Windows 7 when the majority of software didn't officially support Windows 7. Including internet browsers
How is it that this got a tear in my eye? I am not emotional but this was something that got me so nostalgic and kind of sad... I am a 2000 kid (87 to be precise) my memories of this time are so magical... where did we go wrong? Did the social media and the times really destroy the magic? If I had a time machine I would jump back no question and pray that it never ends. Oh btw I got the Messenger working on win 10 in closed system. We use it in my company 😍
Glad to know I was not alone. I got emotional watching the video. So many memories with the OS. My MSI Netbook that ran WinXp just died last December 2021.
Haaaay...
OK boomer. Lol no I'm not being mean, we all do this when we get older. We think everything was better in "them days". It wasn't really. Childhood is a magical time for most people (if you're lucky enough to be in a stable environment), before we got crushed by the horrible weight of the adult world.
OK so I just got stupid nostalgic over SP2 for some reason that I cannot explain. Imagine getting nostalgic over that lol. It was such a big deal at the time tho. I don't remember why, I just remember being excited and carefully making myself an integrated disc.
I switched to Linux quite a while ago, but despite the dark theme, you can see a lot of XP design elements I chose to implement. It makes me happy to have such a familiar design language to work in.
Shut up
@@comicsanz97 lol
Even better if you switched to Linux Mint. Oddly familiar vibe to XP
@@comicsanz97 "Be kind on the internet" - Sun Tzu, The Art of War
@@superslime16th "Linux sucks" - Every sane person
Grew up and used XP for around 10 years. It holds a special place in my heart like many others
I am still using windows xp to this day, and it is quite easy to use even today. The only thing is to not do online banking or any sensitive stuff on it but for other things it work well.
Beyond familiarity, the fact that running the 32-bit version meant it had a lot of cross-compatibility with Windows 9x games, including those rare 16-bit in that era. (usually that was a Windows 3x gaming thing)
Additionally, a lot of us have old hardware that's still perfectly functional, but whose drivers stopped being supported or were downright buggy, like you mentioned. In my case it's an audio interface, specifically the M-Audio Fasttrack Ultra, which while it has good Windows XP drivers, the last ones were only up to Vista, and while they DID work on 7, if the device were to turn off or unplug due to how crap the USB-B connections are, the audio wouldn't just hang, the entire OS would BSOD 100% of the time.
And before any of you say there were stable drivers for 7 or 8.1 for that interface, I should point out that's only for the black casing revision, while I own the original blue one.
When I was taking sound design in college I didn't want to requisition their audio gear or studio to work on my assignments, especially considering I had similar quality gear at home (albeit old). due to the driver issue I had to set up a Windows XP VM and passthrough the Fasttrack Ultra onto it so I could get some proper quality recording done, but it worked, everything was crisp while my colleagues who also didn't bother with requisitions used their headset mics for the dialog/voices recordings.
While XP isnt my favourite OS, it comes in second place.
What can I say, Windows 7 basically perfected everything XP set out to do. It kept it simple for most people, but greatly enhanced the system utilities (much of that can attributed to Vista though) and just generally looked and felt great. Also it didnt have search dog, which is a bonus.
Win7 was slower tho, somethings didn't work so good anymore like some games
@@kanalisationerstellen I found it to be way faster, but I was also running it on appropriate hardware
People said the same thing when they upgraded from XP to Vista because at the time most consumers weren't really paying attention to the fact that their machines were massively out of date.
Argh! Remembering Windows 7 has me wishing for that time. XP was fine... but head to head, 7 was king.
@@deadturret4049 The problem was that Vista was too heavy to run properly even on some new machines back then. Many stores offered downgrades to XP because Vista was too slow.
it was my teenage years, which is probably why it holds a dear place in my heart. the fact that the OS was built under having things easily visible was just icing on the cake. the nice, cool blue colors on rounded icons. the iconic soundfonts that sounded both like the older 95-98 with new sounds. menu navigation was very easy and often fun to work through.
and the best part: no regression back into hieroglyphs to figure out what program it is.
I loved this video, and it has meant a lot to me, especially the ending. Thank you.
Hearing the sounds of this OS makes me think back at my childhood, when things were simple and good. It gives the visuals and sounds such a warm and nice feeling. I still remember Saturday evenings before dinner when I used to play Age of Empires with my dad on our computer, or a few years later Star Wars Battlefront.
Age of empire was my go to game as well. How fun it was. XP made it all possible. Internet was a fun place and looked like it would make everyone happy. unfortunately, internet just did the opposite.
I grew up using windows XP. Gives me so much nostalgia and honestly no other windows OS has compared.
Compatibility and stability were the keys making XP so great, my mom could still use her old version of Office, and I could play old games I've owned, innovating without interfering the old things we already had.
That's honestly a big part of XPs appeal
It was the last version of windows where MS really gave a shit about legacy support. Vista dropping that mindset and launching with all kinds of old software and hardware not working on it created this huge rift that defined the end of an era that Windows XP was the final swan song of.
Windows XP was by far, the best version of Windows EVER. I hate Windows 8-11, and consider Windows 7 the newest version that doesn't give me a headache to use.
And since you brought it up at 10:46, thank God no one in my family ever purchased any sequels to Sid Meier's Civilization. I may have never made it college and might still be glued to the computer chair at 4 a.m. 🖥️
Not to forget the special Win XP 64bit version, that added the support for 64bit based systems, widening the compatibility with newer hardware.
Absolutely! Now you could experience Windows XP through 64-bit rather than having to install a 32-bit version on a 64-bit system. :)
I was waiting for this comment. With Win XP x64 you can still run it on modern hardware and you have amazing performance. Plus there are some compatibility updates from communties and with the ATM registry hack you got updates till 2019 for free ;-)
A year ago I was installing XP on some old computer we had in our computer lab because our teacher either needed it or just wanted to show us how to install XP, it was fun
I still have a VM of XP on my Windows 10 laptop, and frequently start it up just to explore it and feel nostalgic. XP is the absolute best.
You’re my kind of person 💙
the windows XP, Vista, and 7 era was definitely the best for windows, i miss it
I still have a HDD that contains a heap of old windows XP era software, games and drivers. Makes me want to install them on a PC just for a trip down the memory lane.
I was a diehard XP fan for years and still have a soft spot for it to this day. My reasons were simple really; it did everything I wanted to do and did it well. I knew where everything was and the hardware was well able for it. I never understood the "Fisher Price" criticism; it was easy to turn off the theme and revert to a Windows 2000 style.
Vista was too slow on the hardware of the time, I remembered thinking that you needed an SSD (not cheap in those days) to run it well. I also didn't like the UI changes. It was the first real overhaul of the UI since Windows 95 and I remember niggly things annoying me such as the removal of the File Types tab and the icon placement behaviour on the desktop. To me, Windows 7 was "Malibu Stacy with a new hat" or "lipstick on a pig". Just Vista with a new taskbar. So I never understood why it was so popular. Maybe that proved Microsoft's Mojave experiment to be true?
I love your little references in the video lol "KaBlam episode 7" hahaha! Man I haven't thought of that show in yeeeaaarrssss. Prometheus and Bob was great.
Oh how I miss thee Windows XP. The best Windows operating system ever. That lush green background, simplistic icons yet beautiful and so straightforward and efficient. Streamlined and had few issues with it. I will always have fond memories of it.
Your video is incredible! Creative, nostalgic and Simple. Can't wait to see your next Windows 8 failure video.
Thank you so much!! I hadn't thought about doing a Windows 8 video next but if that is what people want to see I'll be happy to do it! :)
I'm just binge watching all of this channel, brings the boomer in me happy.
Fun fact, there's people I know still using XP, and that's crazy.
It refuses to be defeated, and good... after all it was the big daddy of windows versions.
I fell in love with xp when I found the backup disks for my dad's Dell laptop. I loaded it onto my Dimension L600cx and it was like buying a new computer. Even before upgrading from the celeron 600mhz to a plll 933mhz and going from 64mb to 512mb of ram, everything ran so smoothly