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For the benefit of others reading this, there are several factual inaccuracies in Neostarwcc's post. Windows XP updates have not stopped and will not stop for another year, so until second half of 2014 for Windows XP. As for Windows 7 updates, they will be available until 2020 as opposed to 2023 for Windows 8.
Windows 98 was not "one of the most stable operating systems of all time." If anyone has a personal preference for Windows 98, they will be limited to a much smaller percentage of programs running on it, in comparison to Windows XP and the way to have Windows 98 run stable is similar to pretty much the only way to have Windows Me run stable and that is to install those OS's as part of a multi boot on relatively small partitions. Then after setting things the way you like them to be, immediately image the OS partition. That way you can nuke and reimage, which is what I used to do all the time to have Windows 98 and even Windows Me run as stable as the still supported Windows XP.
So back to the real solution:
Since Windows 8.1's Start Button is *not* a real start button and was designed to sling you right back into Metro Tiles you tried to escape from, installing Classic Shell using this link
http://www.classicshell.net/ is a must.
Beware of other imposter links that have popped up to scam people out of $, real Classic Shell does not charge money, only fake Classic Shell versions do.
You can then spend time modifying things to look like any of the previous OS. It can be done.
One of the things that cannot be modified under Windows 7/8 without breaking other parts is you can't disable auto-arrange under them. In their wisdom, Microsoft developers made Auto-arrange mandatory and so you cannot move and group files or folders on different parts of the screen anywhere except on Desktop.
So if you need to do this for work, dual booting with Windows XP is the only real solution.
[Scroll Down and use any Name & Email to Download this freeware] http://neosmart.net/download.php?id=1 to help you get into another OS in a couple of minutes. Simply checking the default OS, makes it the default OS, you don't even have to click on Save Settings after that:
Windows 98 was not "one of the most stable operating systems of all time." If anyone has a personal preference for Windows 98, they will be limited to a much smaller percentage of programs running on it, in comparison to Windows XP and the way to have Windows 98 run stable is similar to pretty much the only way to have Windows Me run stable and that is to install those OS's as part of a multi boot on relatively small partitions. Then after setting things the way you like them to be, immediately image the OS partition. That way you can nuke and reimage, which is what I used to do all the time to have Windows 98 and even Windows Me run as stable as the still supported Windows XP.
So back to the real solution:
Since Windows 8.1's Start Button is *not* a real start button and was designed to sling you right back into Metro Tiles you tried to escape from, installing Classic Shell using this link
http://www.classicshell.net/ is a must.
Beware of other imposter links that have popped up to scam people out of $, real Classic Shell does not charge money, only fake Classic Shell versions do.
You can then spend time modifying things to look like any of the previous OS. It can be done.
One of the things that cannot be modified under Windows 7/8 without breaking other parts is you can't disable auto-arrange under them. In their wisdom, Microsoft developers made Auto-arrange mandatory and so you cannot move and group files or folders on different parts of the screen anywhere except on Desktop.
So if you need to do this for work, dual booting with Windows XP is the only real solution.
[Scroll Down and use any Name & Email to Download this freeware] http://neosmart.net/download.php?id=1 to help you get into another OS in a couple of minutes. Simply checking the default OS, makes it the default OS, you don't even have to click on Save Settings after that: