Comments on: I don’t use Windows XP very often, but when I do…

By: Lorenzo

Lorenzo — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 09:48:40 +0000

In reply to calvin. And, if you have an old netbook, either you use XP or some flavor of linux, because 7 is really not an option.

By: tenox

tenox — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 23:26:17 +0000

In reply to tenox. Yeah I actually use some WES2009 deployments which are also supported! Long live XP ;)

By: tenox

tenox — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 23:25:34 +0000

In reply to calvin. Drivers... There are devices with drivers only for 2K/XP for instance.

By: Roy

Roy — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 23:04:11 +0000

In reply to tenox. and 32bit has POSReady2009 updates till 2019. ;)

By: calvin

calvin — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 12:54:23 +0000

…but why XP? 7 runs surprisingly well on even P3 machines. I have full Aero at 1080p, and if I replace the HD with a quieter and faster model, it’d be a lot better.

Allowing more XP use today is irresponsible.

By: tenox

tenox — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 21:55:32 +0000

In reply to tenox. Looks like latest release from DriverPacks was around 2012. Little dated but then again no one is refreshing drivers for XP for a long time either.

By: tenox

tenox — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 21:52:01 +0000

In reply to Chris M.. Yeah, I use Volume License XP CD with SP3 already in it. I just add updates with WSUS Offline. And installer lock ups etc are why I have a 2 stage process. First nLite with drivers and customizations, then a second cd or pendrive with updates made by WSUS offline. DriverPacks is a really cool idea but for my personal purposes I use a lot of non-common hardware and I doubt they would include it in. But I will check it out!

By: Chris M.

Chris M. — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 21:31:39 +0000

My preferred method of making XP CDs was as follows.

-Start with a SP3 slipstreamed image
-Add in the mass storage and network driver packs from here: http://driverpacks.net/

I tend to avoid the other packs as I had problems with things like video drivers not working. I also avoid adding updates and such since I got burned multiple times using that nLite program from back in the day to add things like .NET and hotfixes. Way too many times the 2nd stage installer would either lock up, or couldn’t find random installation files.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 00:25:00 +0000

In reply to Frank. Yeah but NTVDM always was kind of sucky. Virtual PC was far superior. I guess I was lucky, I always had good driver support for xp64.

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 21:49:29 +0000

Don’t you lose NTVDM in x64 XP though? I believe that and driver support was the main deal breaker for me. Though I must admit things do load a bit faster on it.