More than 21 years after its appearance, the Microsoft Windows XP operating system refuses to die, but the developers “buried” it a long time ago. Thanks to the enthusiast community, the operating system has taken on new life – now you can activate new XP installations with license keys, safely and reliably, without hacking and without an Internet connection.

The Tinyapps blog reports that the algorithm Microsoft used to validate keys in Windows XP was hacked and reworked. As a result, it is now possible to generate valid activation codes for Windows XP without an Internet connection. However, Microsoft has already disabled all Windows XP activation servers.

The Windows XP operating system, released in 2001, has a weak level of security by modern standards. Currently, it is strictly not recommended for use, especially on computers connected to the Internet, precisely for this reason. But the problem is that sometimes people need it. For example, there is hardware that only works with Windows XP, or it can be very expensive but requires an older version of Windows to run. If you have such a device, or if you have a specific and very specific piece of software that you need to run that does not work properly on any recent version of Windows, then you may have to use XP. If that’s the case, one of the problems would be Microsoft disabling their activation servers.

If you’re thinking of going online with XP, Internet Explorer 6.0 won’t get you very far. Even installing IE 8, the latest version of XP, doesn’t help much – it can’t even open Microsoft.com anymore. For that, you can try Seamonkey version 2.49.5, an open source browser that still runs on XP or Opera 36, ​​which you can find on the company’s downloads page. As an antivirus, there is an option with Avast, which also offers a version of the free antivirus that still works on XP.

Since there is still an active community of XP fans on the internet who offer advice on how to keep this “geriatric” code running, tinyapps.org itself is the source of minimalist apps for this long obsolete operating system. If you need to run Windows XP, it is recommended to run it in a virtual machine isolated from the internet.