![]() Windows XP is fairly painless to install, but the default is the Fisher-Price “Luna” theme, with annoying balloons that pop up. Opera 9.60 is the last version that runs on this OS. Installing a display driver is even more of a pain in the ass than under NT4, but after I do that Win2K already looks the way I want all my operating systems to look. Windows 2000 Pro SP 4 installed on VirtualBox under Linux. This is oldest operating system I can drive out onto the World Wide Web, since Windows 95 keeps kicking my ass. Google looks like shit, but Bing seems to render okay. Opera version 8.53 is the last version to work with Windows NT4 and pretty much the only option as browsers go. Only very primitive websites (such as my own) will render at all. It’s like being in the middle of the freeway with a tricycle. This is NT after a driver was installed for 24 bit color 1024×768 pixels, and I have Internet Explorer 2.0 running. Also, you have to change the settings so it doesn’t open a new window for every folder you enter. As such, it has the same annoyances as Windows 95, such as creating a shortcut to an executable by default when you drag its icon to the desktop. This version is basically the same as NT 3.51 but uses the Windows 95 “Taskbar/Desktop-as-Folder” paradigm that has become ubiquitous ever since. ![]() ![]() This is a fresh installation of Windows NT 4.0 for Workstations (1996) with the default 16 color 800×600 pixel VGA display. ![]()
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