# Windows
Windows is another operating system.

# Community projects
https://projek01.neocities.org/ projek01 - good windows 10 to xp


# Drivers
Snappy Driver Installer Origin is useful for looking up drivers: https://www.glenn.delahoy.com/snappy-driver-installer-origin/
- Can prepare offline driver installation kit, or just download indexes to have identification ready to go, then download drivers on the spot


## Misc
* To verify a hash with powershell: ``get-filehash "C:\PATH\TO\MY-WINDOWS-IMAGE.iso" -Algorithm SHA256``
* You can install Windows directly from a hard drive by preparing it with [WinNTSetup](https://superuser.com/a/810961): > It is a tool which will put all necessary Windows installer files on a hard drive. Then you just have to boot that hard drive in any machine and it will start installing Windows, no external media required. Such hard drive isn’t targeted for any specific hardware, it’s just self-sustaining Windows installer, but having files already copied on disk can significantly reduce installation time. > WinNTSetup requires a copy of Windows Vista/7/8/8.1 disk or bootable flash drive. You have to manually locate ``install.wim`` file on that media (look in the ``sources`` directory). Paths to other required files are derived automatically. > There are more options available, but defaults are OK in most cases. All you have to do is select ``install.wim``, click *Setup* button and wait until files are copied. > (In rare cases this method can trigger some installer quirks, for example installers may refuse to work on 2 GB RAM machines, but usually everything goes smoothly.)
* When transferring a hard drive from a computer to another computer, you should first Generalize the install with Sysprep, selecting OOBE and Shutdown to strip any hardware specific drivers, in order to prevent bluescreens.
	* [boot - Booting a Windows 7 installation on different hardware - Super User](https://superuser.com/questions/54300/booting-a-windows-7-installation-on-different-hardware)


Web browsing
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### Firefox
You can use the [Echelon theme](https://echelon-theme.github.io/) for Firefox 115ESR to make firefox look awesome again. 115ESR requires: 
- Windows 7/8/10 - Pentium 4 or newer processor that supports SSE2 
- 512MB of RAM / 2GB of RAM for the 64-bit version 
- 200MB of hard drive space

[Pale Moon](https://www.palemoon.org/) looks interesting as well, yet to test with any Windows version.

### RetroZilla
This browser is a nostalgic ‘fork of Gecko 1.8.1 for improved compatibility on the modern web, with Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 in mind’ You can use it with [theoldnet proxy](https://theoldnet.com/docs/httpproxy/index.html) for some nostalgic web browsing.



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* [Friendly Windows Thread Paste](https://rentry.co/fwt#microsoft-office)
* [Windows ISOs - Bob Pony’s Network](https://bobpony.com/files/category/2-microsoft-windows/)
* [Better Windows](https://rentry.co/better-windows)
* [GitHub - ChrisTitusTech/winutil: Chris Titus Tech’s Windows Utility - Install Programs, Tweaks, Fixes, and Updates](https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil)
* [GitHub - massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts: A Windows and Office activator using HWID / KMS38 / Online KMS activation methods, with a focus on open-source code and fewer antivirus detections.](https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts)
* [Completely uninstall Microsoft Edge](https://rentry.org/uninstalledge)
* [Windows eXPerience - Windows XP in 10](https://experience.noncities.com/)
* [Legacy Update: Get back online, activate, and install updates on your legacy Windows PC](https://legacyupdate.net/)