| ▲ | Microsoft Download Center Archive(legacyupdate.net) |
| 85 points by luu 3 days ago | 7 comments |
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| ▲ | MPSimmons 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| PowerToys (https://legacyupdate.net/download-center/powertoys) used to be on my "first software to install" list on a new machine. Between Tweak UI and Deskman, you could _almost_ get a minimal X Windows-like UI. Get those set up and add on LiteStep (http://litestep.net/) and you were pretty much good to go, with the exceptions of the kernel, network stack, and CLI toolset, of course. |
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| ▲ | chungy 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Wow, somehow I entirely missed that Windows XP versions were made. I relied pretty heavily on the Windows 95 PowerToys when I used Win95. Deskman seems like it'd be awesome. |
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| ▲ | socalgal2 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This is great! But, it feels like it's only a matter of time before it changes ownership and everything is re-bundled with malware. It sucks that I can't get old downloads but it would be nice if they came from official sources. I don't have a solution. But looking for old drivers etc, mostly leads to bad sources. |
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| ▲ | JohnTHaller 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Legacy Update has been well-supported for over 3 years and takes donations via Github (11 current, 61 past sponsors) and Patreon (where you can sponsor up to $80 to fuel Adam's 3D printing addiction). I recommend it to our PortableApps.com users who are on older operating systems and use it in my virtual machines for testing our releases. I'm hopeful it'll stay as is for a while. | | |
| ▲ | Imustaskforhelp an hour ago | parent [-] | | Hey its awesome but regarding donations since I actually wanted to talk about it. But can you please look at adding yourself/Download Center archive to liberapay too as I was hoping to find liberapay. You mention having kofi being the lowest prices but I think Liberapay has no fees other than payment processing and is itself an non profit and funded via donations. Maybe then you would have "too many options to donate" but I think liberapay can be a good option to have honestly imo and I am interested to hear your thoughts about it. Also I wanted to download windows 7 iso to run a simpler thing on my pc but Microsoft being shitty removed the download link of it and everything so great to see your project, Going to bookmark it right now and thank you! |
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| ▲ | jamesdhutton an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Genuine question, not being sarcastic: why would someone want/need these downloads? |
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| ▲ | hsbauauvhabzb 18 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I have a legitimate need to replicate systems that are sometimes very legacy for security research (apps that sit on top, rather than the os itself). Building stuff like a base Windows XP image is easy enough, but sometimes system updates are required - even stuff like iirc tls1.2 isn’t supported in IE6 |
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