r/windowsxp

I have a lga 1155 system and am wanting to run XP on it, i been looking for an appropriate card for xp that is well priced and the 9800 GTX seems about right?

I'm just wondering, I've used windows XP for a year, but I've never once thought about security. I've always just ran XP on an admin account with no AV, no nothing, with my only defense being my router and Firefox on onecore api. That computer was a Dell d505 with a Pentium M. However, I now have a T430 that's 2000% more powerful which in theory opens the door to stuff like firewalls and antivirus software. Although, is security that big of a concern on XP, is there a real risk to running XP? I'm mainly going to use XP at home and also connected to a hotspot when I'm not, so I don't know how far I should go with securing the OS.

I've been researching to see if a person was able to activate windows xp using (https://visualsupport.microsoft.com/) aka The Product Activation Portal.

One person has posted on the Microsoft Forum on March 25 2026 that they couldn't activate anything other then windows 7

Link here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/windowsosplatformdiscussions/the-new-activation-portal-is-partly-broken-but-it-is-a-major-inconvenience-for-m/4505761

I'm just want to see if it's truly if anyone was able to do it even if you were forced to login to you Microsoft account to activate it.

I trying to install old Works 8.5 on Windows XP SP3 VM, but installer tell me, that only Windows 2000 SP3 and newer are supported. When I trying to run setup.exe file directly it showing me window without fonts.

https://preview.redd.it/l75lg21t2ltg1.png?width=535&format=png&auto=webp&s=e4d7c1be4abf030cd6d1c8f7a11940b34fd7b4ee

Does anyone solved such problem?

My old Dell Inspiron 530 runs Windows 10 now, but back in the day I had XP on it. I would really like to dual boot XP, but I'm not sure which way would be the easiest. I would ideally like to install it from a disc as I burned a copy of pro years ago and I still have it.

I have an SSD in it too, which I'm not sure XP supports.

Greetings,

Supermium is good, but does not support flash outside of Ruffle, AFAIK (I could be way wrong, though). I was wondering what the most up to date browser is that can use Clean Flash? I am asking, since I'd like to play Club Penguin private servers (like Club Penguin Journey) on my XP machine, and would like a browser that can handle the websites enough to load without issue, and uses Flash natively, instead of wasting resources with emulating flash.

Any help/advice would be deeply appreciated, and I thank you all for your time.

I need help to install this 20 year old operating system that still works brilliantly, for fun. It’ll be really helpful if you can explain to me how.

Saludos, quiero instalar el sistema operativo Windows xp, para realizar un proyecto arcade, y generalizr el sistema. ¿Alguien que me pueda ayudar como lo puedo hacer?..