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This forgotten Windows XP feature still works in Windows 11 and it's incredibly useful

Remember Windows XP? That beloved operating system with the rolling green hills wallpaper dominated our desktops for over a decade. While Microsoft transformed Windows dramatically since those days, ...
ExtremeTech

A Windows XP User Is Running Windows 11 in a Virtual Machine

A Reddit user figured out how to run Windows 11 on a Windows XP computer using a virtual machine. The experiment was conducted on a Windows XP x64 system, utilizing VirtualBox 5.2.44 with Certificate ...
PC World

Transform Windows 11 into Windows XP with WindowBlinds 11

If you really don’t like the look and feel of Windows, Stardock Software is back at it. The company’s latest beta of WindowBlinds 11 allows you to make Windows 11 look and feel like Windows XP.
Neowin

Windows XP era unofficial anti-spyware comes to Windows 11 as a fork

A Windows XP-era third-party application called xp-AntiSpy has made a comeback as a fork on Windows 11. The app, as the name suggests, was built with the goal of being an anti-spyware for Windows XP.
Hackaday

Benchmarking Windows Against Itself, From Windows XP To Windows 11

Despite faster CPUs, RAM and storage, today’s Windows experience doesn’t feel noticeably different from back in the 2000s when XP and later Windows 7 ruled the roost. To quantify this feeling, ...