PCbanter - View Single Post - I booted up my very old Windows XP Pro. SP3 this morning...

**Spalls Hurgenson**

On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 21:07:22 -0500, NT (Ant) wrote:

... It was weird/odd to reuse my very old OS that I haven't touched for
years again. I was there to uninstall two old computer games (Call of
Duty 4 & World in Conflict) to free up precious disk space due to my
dual OS setup. Oh and Malwarebytes' AntiMalware and SpyBot S&D still get
updates when I manually checked! :O

XP remains a capable OS, and so long as you practice safe-computing
with it (which largely means, in this case, stay off the Internet!),
it runs fine. And while its Fisher Price interface is garish, it's
still far more usable than Microsoft's more recent attempts.

My biggest complaint is that not only doesn't Valve support the OS,
they actively prevent you from running Steam on it. While I can
understand their reasoning (largely to do with cutting support and
development costs), it is troubling. There are some games sold on
Steam that will not run on Windows 7/8/10, and - thanks to Valve's
actions - those games can no longer be played at all.

Then again, the primary purpose of my remaining XP game is to play my
games that use optical-media and copy-protection schemes (hello
Starforce!) that I don't want anywhere near my main PCs.