Janne Johansson wrote to Brad Hansen:
JJ> On 2018-04-22 14:02, Brad Hansen : All wrote:
JJ>   My problem is
JJ> > finding the VGA Compatiable Driver and some PCI device drivers because
JJ> > of different hardware.  After hours and hours of trying to find 
JJ> drivers,
JJ> > no luck.  Most of them
JJ> > downloaded corrupt.   Boy go and try to just search drivers talk about
JJ> > malware.  My two questions anyone sucessfuly registered their vintage
JJ> > copy of XP?  And who knows a good reliable source for old vintage
JJ> > motherboard drivers?  The sources on the net or not too good.
JJ> Don't want to rub it in or anything, but this is one of the things we
JJ> who like/love Free Operating Systems(tm) knew to expect from commercial
JJ> OSes that does like for instance XP Home did, the "oh, you can just call
JJ> this phone number and we will reactivate it for you, and don't mind that
JJ> it went unlicensed just because you put a new CD-drive in it, just call
JJ> and we'll be very forth-coming". Which I'm sure they were, until that
JJ> phone number stopped being "profitable" and now you have to hunt through
JJ> malware-ridden sites to just boot the OS.
JJ> 
JJ> ---
JJ> 

You can find XP activators that install a shim on a number of the extant XP
boot CD's, like Hiren's. 

I would encourage everyone with old driver CD's to upload them to archive.org.
 

    Greetings, James Digriz
    email: jbdigriz@bbs.dragonsweb.org

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