The Start menu received its first major overhaul in XP, switching to a two-column layout with the ability to list, pin, and display frequently used applications, recently opened documents, and the traditional cascading "All Programs" menu. The taskbar can now group windows opened by a single application into one taskbar button, with a popup menu listing the individual windows. The notification area also hides "inactive" icons by default. A "common tasks" list was added, and Windows Explorer's sidebar was updated to use a new task-based design with lists of common actions; the tasks displayed are contextually relevant to the type of content in a folder (e.g. a folder with music displays offers to play all the files in the folder, or burn them to a CD).[24]
Unofficial SP3 ZIP download packages were released on a now-defunct website called The Hotfix from 2005 to 2007.[102][103] The owner of the website, Ethan C. Allen, was a former Microsoft employee in Software Quality Assurance and would comb through the Microsoft Knowledge Base articles daily and download new hotfixes Microsoft would put online within the articles. The articles would have a "kbwinxppresp3fix" and/or "kbwinxpsp3fix" tag, thus allowing Allen to easily find and determine which fixes were planned for the official SP3 release to come. Microsoft publicly stated at the time that the SP3 pack was unofficial and advised users to not install it.[104][105] Allen also released a Vista SP1 package in 2007, for which Allen received a cease-and-desist email from Microsoft.[106]
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Variants of Windows XP for embedded systems have different support policies: Windows XP Embedded SP3 and Windows Embedded for Point of Service SP3 were supported until January and April 2016, respectively. Windows Embedded Standard 2009, which was succeeded by Windows Embedded Standard 7, and Windows Embedded POSReady 2009, which was succeeded by Windows Embedded POSReady 7, were supported until January and April 2019, respectively.[116] These updates, while intended for the embedded editions, could also be downloaded on standard Windows XP with a registry hack, which enabled unofficial patches until April 2019. However, Microsoft advised Windows XP users against installing these fixes, citing incompatibility issues.[9][117]
Furthermore, at least 49% of all computers in China still ran XP at the beginning of 2014. These holdouts were influenced by several factors; prices of genuine copies of later versions of Windows in the country are high, while Ni Guangnan of the Chinese Academy of Sciences warned that Windows 8 could allegedly expose users to surveillance by the United States government,[124] and the Chinese government banned the purchase of Windows 8 products for government use in May 2014 in protest of Microsoft's inability to provide "guaranteed" support.[125] The government also had concerns that the impending end of support could affect their anti-piracy initiatives with Microsoft, as users would simply pirate newer versions rather than purchasing them legally. As such, government officials formally requested that Microsoft extend the support period for XP for these reasons. While Microsoft did not comply with their requests, a number of major Chinese software developers, such as Lenovo, Kingsoft and Tencent, will provide free support and resources for Chinese users migrating from XP.[126] Several governments, in particular those of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, elected to negotiate "Custom Support" plans with Microsoft for their continued, internal use of Windows XP; the British government's deal lasted for a year, and also covered support for Office 2003 (which reached end-of-life the same day) and cost 5.5 million.[127]
After you turn on Windows Update, the required updates to components of Windows Update will be downloaded and installed automatically without notifying you. This behavior occurs regardless of which setting you use to turn on Windows Update. If you do not want to receive required updates, you can disable automatic updates in Control Panel.
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So just ignore the columns in the left and just enter the correct values into the 2nd column, as described above. I hope that you also have set the permission to that registry key (namely WPAEvents) as described in the article, otherwise XP will still prompt you with that alert message. By setting the permissions as described in the article we don't allow Windows to control/alter that key anymore so it will be unable to protect itself. Why do you bother using Windows anyway? Linux is free and believe me, it's faster, need fewer resources, and all the software you need it's usually also free. If you are novice then start with Ubuntu Linux. It's a "next->next->....->finish" installation, it auto-updates automatically (just like Windows) and ships with many applications by default (although you will be able later to install tons of whatever apps you need).
Hi Eugen -- I used your procedure with 28 days left on a fresh re-install of my totally legal XP-Pro-SP3 32-bit OS as a brute-force solution to frequent blue-screens. Microsoft is not activating XP at all these days, though I was able to accomplish it online just a couple of months ago. I use XP on this old-but-good PC as a simple server for my old-but-good printer and scanner, and as a music server (juke box ? to my old-but-good vintage stereo system. As for me, I'm just old! I use Win 7 - 10 64bit on a newer machine for everything else, and Office Pro etc., so Microsoft is still getting its pound of flesh from me. Back to activation and not being adept at working with the registry, I ran into the same issues/questions as "Ana" above. Your explanation to her ultimately clarified my own procedure, although your terms like "That screen is divided into 3 columns . . ." left me uncertain as to what screen and how to access it. It would have been helpful to lead me by the hand to right-click on "OOBETimer" and so on. Respecting the power of the registry, I took my time and slowly proceeded to follow what I inferred to be your intent. However, there were various differences in the details all along the way. For instance, at WPAEvents - Permissions - Advanced, TWO "SYSTEM " lines appeared, the original one as well as a new one I just apparently created by the access denials. I grabbed myself by the hoo-hoos and deleted the original, pre-denial line. Somewhat to my surprise and definitely to my satisfaction, it works so far, in reporting that it is activated. I'll see what happens in 28 days to seal the deal. Now I can use this old PC as preferred, again. I did take note of your enthusiasm for Linux. I've intended to learn about it since I'm a blank slate now. My really, really old-but-good PC would be a great test bed for this well-regarded free alternative OS, and I think I'll go for it. Thanks very much for your contributions to the horde of IT-challenged enthusiasts like moi! You rock!
I have used Windows for decades (literally). Started with Windows 3.x (probably the most people don't know what it is) then '95. '98,etc. As far as I know BSOD was always related to hardware-software conflicts (what you call Bad Memory I would call bad memory driver or just bad kernel, thus BSOD). Probably with older version of Windows using a non genuine license key (like those randomly generated but still valid as keys) it triggers an software exception that is unintentionally handled,which for you as end user will look like BSOD. The lack of floppy should never trigger such error. It will only be a pain in the ass if you have to install the Windows on a SCSI/RAID system (which means you have to have floppy drive; if you don't then you can't install, unless you were lucky enough to read this article first).The BSOD problem it's mostly generated by two things: bad drivers OR bad hardware OR Windows just found out that somehow you managed to hack it and it generates a software exception. When the cause of BSOD is the latest then I suggest you reinstall the Windows (just take it easy, follow each step as described, don't hurry because the order of steps matter). Why are you still using Windows XP anyway? Nowadays you can find dozens of Linux distro much user-friendly and of course, free (no licensing whatsoever).
Thanks for the tutorial. I have been trying to run a copy of windows XP on a Virtual Machine for a little while, and no matter what I tried it wasn't recognizing my product key, and I couldn't get it to activate at all. I followed your tutorial, and it seems to have worked with one minor glitch. Whenever I log on to the virtual Machine, it still brings me to the activation screen, but the first screen that pops up says "This copy of Windows is already active, Click OK to exit", so I click OK, and it promptly logs me off. Any suggestions?
Following these steps (Activate Now) worked very well with one hiccup: I still get the activation prompt every time - declares windows has been activated, but click OK and it logs the user out immediately. I'm curious to know if anyone has found a way through this.
I have followed your guidance above. If I click activate windows it will show "Windows is already activated. click ok to exit".if I press ok then it will goes to welcome windows with the list of user acount.if i choose one of them it goes back to "windows Product Activation" which ask me to activate windows again.could you help to solve this issue?Thank you
start narrator (windowskey - U)select the link where it says "microsoft web page"it will start internet explorer - write the address "c:\windows\explorer.exe"click on start - run - regeditremove everything related to oobe and wpaevents, all keysrestart windows, boot with hirens boot cd to access drive Cgo to c:\windows\system32\oobe, replace msoobe.exe with c:\windows\explorer.exerestart windows xpsometimes it will prompt you for 30 days activation. when click on the prompt, an error message will say there's no such /a path.This works if you make significant hardware changes (a new motherboard) on the same windows xp system.voila, no more trial activation. 2ff7e9595c
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