[HN Gopher] Microsoft Download Center Archive
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Microsoft Download Center Archive
Author : luu
Score : 93 points
Date : 2025-12-05 19:33 UTC (3 days ago)
(HTM) web link (legacyupdate.net)
(TXT) w3m dump (legacyupdate.net)
| MPSimmons wrote:
| 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.
| chungy wrote:
| 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.
| socalgal2 wrote:
| 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.
| JohnTHaller wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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!
| embedding-shape wrote:
| OpenCollective is another good alternative, that use the
| same means to fund themselves as they're offering projects
| to use, compared to the GitHub/Microsoft way of doing
| things.
| jamesdhutton wrote:
| Genuine question, not being sarcastic: why would someone
| want/need these downloads?
| hsbauauvhabzb wrote:
| 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
| dbcooper wrote:
| There's a tool for blocking selected driver updates that still
| works on Windows 11. Very handy.
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