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Old June 28th 20, 12:15 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Arlen Holder[_9_]
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Default Why do you still use Windows XP?

On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 17:52:33 -0500, Ant wrote:

I'd tell you, but you're probably offline.


Soon, Paul. :P


Since you asked, one reason I keep WinXP around is for the menus.
o It's trivial to just _copy_ WinXP menus over to Win10 for example:

Here's a set of screenshots of just that from one of my tutorials:
o http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=2635699winxp_menus_on_win10.jpg
o http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=2796904winxp_menu_on_win10.jpg
o http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=5364242winxp_menu_example01.jpg
o http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=2539943taskbar00.jpg

I have an old Dell laptop, whose screen is dead and which has only 500MB of
RAM, which works just fine on WinXP as my USB printer/scanner interface.

I recently copied the START MENU over to a newly set up Win10 machine, and
it worked right out of the box, as per my well-designed menu hierarchy:
o Why does anyone bother to install Classic Shell on Windows
if all they want is the WinXP accordion-style sliding cascade Start Menu?
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/dTHKXIdlqcw

As for bugfixes, even Windows 10 is full of holes, but, even so, lately I
pull the cat5 (it doesn't even have WiFi), but not out of any sense of fear
but more out of propriety (it doesn't need to be on my LAN full time).
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Even the START MENU from Windows XP ports over to Windows 10 with a simple
copy of the file hierarchy and it works out of the box in my setup.
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