I need a new laptop with windows XP

You can make it look like XP in settings. But you're right, it's not like the old OS, it's better.

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Because XP is a bloated, memory hogging piece of garbage.

 

Occasionally you will find a netbook for sale new that still has xp sp 3 but it will have been setting for a bit in a warehouse, seems right before windows 7 starter came out there was a bit of a glut in the Windows netbook market with MS afraid they were going to lose out to linux and android machines at the start they made a big push to lower requirements on xp to work well on netbooks.

All that being said, it isn't a good idea to use an unsupported MS operating system if you are going to get online with it. I would say if you aren't happy with windows 7 there are plenty of alternatives out there.

 

Since approximately 95% of new laptops being sold today are 64-bit machines (multi-core processors, 4+ GB of RAM, wider data buses on the motherboard) and Windows XP Home and Professional are strictly 32-bit operating systems, why in the world would you want a new laptop running an operating system that willl not be able to utilize the full potential of the hardware you bought? Yes, there is a Windows XP 64-bit operating system available, but it is a very old operating system that had an awful lot of bugs. Basically, it ran like crap and crashed on a regular basis.

If your issue is software compatibility with a legacy program, there are other ways to get older software to work on newer machines. First, try compatibility mode (right click the shortcut icon on your desktop, go to Properties, then select the Compatibility tab. Set Compatibility to XP service pack 3 for most legacy programs and enjoy). If compatibilty mode does not work, your software may be so old it still requires DOS (most software available for Windows 98 SE, NT 4.0, and even some made for Windows 2000 Pro still required a DOS "shell" to work properly). If this is the case, investigate a program called "DOSbox", which allows you to create what is called a "virtual machine" within your current operating system. This "virtual machine" can then be loaded with whatever older operating systems you have legal copies of (gotta have the disk and activation keys) and whatever additional legacy software your computers primary OS cannot run.

Any questions?