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Programs for Modern Computers

Ruffle (Flash Player)

Flash Player (The real deal)

Program Browser Plugin

Netscape Navigator (1-3.0 & 9.0 is Navigator, 4-8.0 is Communicator)
otvdm (16-Bit Program Emulator, for programs like the Netscape setup!)
Windows Movie Maker 6.0 (For classic YT Videos! :) )
Utilu IE Collection (Internet Explorer Archive)

Things to make your computer look old

Open Shell (Start Menu & (kinda) the taskbar)
StartIsBack (Paid) (Start Menu (kinda) and taskbar
Retrobar (Taskbars from Vista and before)

UltraUxThemePatcher

  • The thing itself
  • Windows 8.1 Theme
  • Windows 7/Vista Theme
  • Windows XP Theme

  • OldNewExplorer (For the old Windows Explorer)
    WinAero Tweaker (For tweaks :) )
    StartIsBack (Paid) (Adds the taskbar highlights of old Windows and the old Start Menu)

    Programs for Old Computers

    Legacy Update (For use for XP onward)
    Windows Update Restored (For use for 95 to XP, also NT 4.0 and 2000)

    The following are programs I reccomend for new Windows installations. I got a few of them from this list!

    Windows 8.1

    Supermium (Best Chromium Browser)
    r3dfox (Modern Firefox on Windows 8.1 without Extended Kernel)
    Firefox 115 ESR (Just use r3dfox)
    Malwarebytes
    VLC media player
    7-Zip
    Steam (Still installs and works as of 7/29/2024)
    Steam for Windows 7/8.1 (When Steam stops working)

    Windows 7

    Supermium (Best Chromium Browser)
    r3dfox (Modern Firefox on Windows 7 without Extended Kernel)
    Firefox 115 ESR (Just use r3dfox)
    Malwarebytes
    VLC media player
    7-Zip
    paint.NET 4.3.12
    Visual C++ Redistrutible for it
    Steam (Still installs and works as of 7/29/2024)
    Steam for Windows 7/8.1 (When Steam stops working)
    VxKex (Not a extended kernel, but tries to get some Windows 8+ programs to work on Windows 7)

    Note: The original GitHub page is gone. The link is a reupload on Github. In case of that going down Here's a archive.org link.

    the github page github.com/vxkex/vxkex is fake. don't go there.



    Windows 7 Extended Kernel (Like the Vista Extended Kernel)

    With Extended Kernel or VxKex


    Firefox (Just do r3dFox)
    Spotify (Older Versions work without Extended Kernel)

    Windows Vista

    Supermium (Best Chromium Browser)
    VLC media player
    Avast Antivirus
    7-Zip
    Youtube Downloader HD
    Windows Vista Extended Kernel (Lets you run Windows 7 programs.)
    Legacy Update
    JDK 21 backport (Specifically for Minecraft 1.20.5+)

    With Extended Kernel


    r3dfox (Best Firefox based browser. They recently started supporting Vista)
    Malwarebytes
    Steam for Windows Vista

    Windows XP

    Supermium (Insane how he got it working on Windows XP!)
    Mypal (Best non chromium browser)

    VLC media player 3.0.20 (3.0.21 doesn't work)

    x32 x64

    Avast Antivirus
    7-Zip
    K-Lite Codec Pack
    Microsoft Plus! For Windows XP
    Malwarebytes 3.5.1.2522 (Still gets updates!)
    Youtube Downloader HD
    Legacy Update

    Windows 2000

    7-Zip (Still supports 2000 for some reason)
    VLC media player 1.1.10
    RetroZila (Somewhat modern browser for 2000)
    Windows Update Restored
    BlackWingCat's KernelEx (Literally every other program is going to need this. Also don't mind the japanese!)

    With BlackWingCat's KernelEx

    MyPal (Haven't tested, people have shown sucess.)
    xVLC media player 3.0.20 (Haven't tested)

    Windows 98/ME

    7-Zip 4.6.5
    RetroZilla

    Netscape Navigator 3.0 Gold or Communicator 4.0 for being cool and stuff


    Windows Update Restored
    KernelEx (Different than BlackWingCat's KernelEx)

    Misc.


    Minecraft Stuff

    Minecraft: Story Mode Season 1 Complete

    It was taken down off of every storefront. So if you don't want to buy the game second hand, this is the best option. Also if you are on a OS which doesn't support ISO mounting, get a program that lets you do it.

    Android Apps

    Minecraft: Pocket Version (Old Versions)
    Delisted Angry Birds Games

    Other Stuff


    Tampermonkey for Google Chrome 17-27





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