Yeah, there are few projects.. Check MSFN forums. There is also supermium browser (hosted on GitHub).

Actually, this guide is not bad really. Well written. There are few questionable things like installing some specific software that can be skipped. Also, Firewall is a must. Even if you harden your XP, there are still few ports left open like 135 and 445. They seem to be inactive (wrapper?) when you disable services and uninstall Microsoft Networking, but I would not trust that. Also, antivirus is useless indeed. Better solution is sandboxing or even VM.

I use Win2003 daily on more powerfull PC (i5-2400, 16GB RAM) and its indeed blazing fast. When cache is warm, everything starts pretty much instantly, so SSD is not really needed. Cache FTW!

Cool story. I am myself Windows users here for desktop but still enpowering it with Cygwin and X11 renderer (Xming). Its so nice to run VM in the background, start Xming, SSH to box, type xterm (script) and vioala. I have xterm running with renders on my Windows box. I think can start web browser from it and other X apps :)

Unfortunately, dark cloud are comming. Firefox become so bloated that it start to badly work w/ X11 over network.

Ahh, I owned P233 MMX CPU for a while.. It was beast :) Good memories. I remember I skipped PII cpus and jumped to Intel Celeron 633, then I bought P3 800 and finaly P3 1000. And they I stayed at it for long time runing Win2000. So long, that mobo IDE controller started to fail, so I had to do replacement. So I upgraded to i5-760 :)

Hmm, I never (I think) used it. For me, THE place to chat was always IRC. And today, I try hard to avoid wallen gardens.

I tried it for a short while. Its not bad. But I found AntiX Linux to be even more lightweight compared to Q4OS. It doesnt provide XP feel tho.

Ahh, great classic too. I played it alot, then TTDPatch and later OpenTTD. I still play it from time to time using OpenTTD. I even created GRF with improved industries called BSPI.grf :)

Its duplicate? So I think you can delete it?

Hah, how did that happen? I played it alot in DOS times. Then I had quite a break. Then I somehow rediscovered it again, so started to play using DOSbox. It was okish but slow, so a week ago I decided to try porting 1ooM to my GRX library, because why not? :) And boom, great success.

Its a great classic imo. Ideal balance and simple UI. No annoying micromanagement, even in large maps. Just set up few sliders and you are done.

And ability to hack around them. Look at FFEWin or TTDPatch projects. Those guys did amazing work. I myself hack around old games too, fixing bugs or adding little improvements.