Windows XP Professional
How can you tell that any Windows or Mac clone UI is a re-implementation? Easy: try to move your mouse diagonally into the Send To menu after letting it pop up. If the send-to menu closes as you mouse over the item into the submenu, it's a clone. If the menu stays up even if you brush over another menu item, it's either real or a Good Clone. :)
For the fun history, @DonHopkins had a thread a few years back:
This is a nice replication of the WinXP UI in JS (it is not a virtual machine running in your browser).
If you want the real thing: https://lrusso.github.io/VirtualXP/VirtualXP.htm
(takes less memory than Miro, at least in Firefox :D)
Win XP remains my favourite OS till date. I was in college and getting hands on a pirated copy back then makes me so nostalgic.
There was a cambrian explosion of tools to customize the look and feel. TweakXP pro is the one I remember. All pirated off-course.
I was hoping this was emulation, like the windows 95 in js that exists, but its more of a simulator. The web browser doesnt work and the minesweeper game uses a text emoji instead of a picture for the face
I feel slightly ashamed that I spent enough time using Windows XP that was able to spot that this was a clone based on the fonts and shadow effects alone.
Nice effort though.
Back when the Start Menu made sense. It wasn't rose colored glasses, it was functional.
Will call our IT support tomorrow and start this as a full screen.
That will be fun in the office :-)
Check out SmolXP [1]. The one I setup had a 340MB qcow2 image, took about ~10 sec to boot to desktop with qemu, and used only 58MB ram idling on desktop.
"WIN32.RUN might have unexpected behaviors on browsers that are NOT Chromium-based (Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc.)"
What would be the reasons this wouldn't run on Firefox? Genuine question from a non-web developer.
God I miss Windows XP. I feel like, with a few small changes, the Windows XP GUI would be the most solid desktop experience you could possibly have.
Throw in POSIX compliance/bash, first party Linux compatibility (not WSL), window snapping, dark mode, maybe a spotlight-like search and a few enhancements to the file manager and you'd have a pretty much perfect desktop/productivity OS.
Why can't we have nice things?
This is awesome! I recreated Win XP for my personal website a few years ago (https://www.sohailsayed.com/), but this completely blows it out the water on functionality.
I absolutely love just how much depth there is to the functionality in this (from being able to use apps like word, or being able to drag and move around icons on desktop).
Brilliant!
Real thing is possible on https://copy.sh/v86/ I think but need an XP disk image[1], not readily available at the moment (probably for copyright reasons?).
Using this made me feel happy. I don't get that feeling from modern Windows.
We get these cheap recreations semi-regularly on here. Why does stuff like this keep being spammed on here, besides the nostalgia factor?
Design peaked here for OS's. Perfect balance of colors and functionality, and gloss. This was the top.
No Pinball :(
wow it's one of the most nostalgic feelings I've ever felt. Like coming back home after leaving for many years. And you still know your way around even though you already forgot you knew.
This brings back so many memories I still remember having a cd with the serial key written right on it. Even now, that key is stuck in my mind qqwd7-8gr47-x9rcp-jjwh7-qpgqq
Little fun tidbit: I happen to use the WinXP wallpaper on my Macbook (just for fun nostalgia, and because I like it), so when I open this up on my browser the background blends: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/70a66a71-3f6a-485...
Check margin/padding in filename input line of "save file as" menu. Ms Word is totally not real Main menu font should be monotype if I remember correctly Minesweeper has other fonts and pictures Browser in browser can not work by some browser policy. BTW the shot of nostalgy is MASSIVE My favorite video player from that times was LightAlloy and Winamp 2.
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I went through the "Install Windows" option just to hear the Windows XP installation music again. That track is such a vibe, I have loved it since I was a 14 year-old installing a pirated copy of XP in 2001.
I am viewing this post on a real Windows XP system on a 440BX platform from 1998. ;)
The BIOS splash text loads and animates but not much else. I'm using Palemoon 25 (SSE1). Impressive that it loads at all!
Fun but its Python REPL broke the immersion for me.. Python 3.13.2 (main, Aug 4 2025 20:25:58)
I was expecting Python 2.2 or 2.3 ... not sure what was the earliest version of Python on Pyodide
Took a nostalgic detour to XP-ville—right in my browser. No VMs, no installs—just pixel-perfect throwbacks. Warning: May derail your workflow with retro joy.
Strangely enough, the first thing that some subconscious forces brought me to was to listen to Beethoven's 9th symphony (the file in media sub folder in the home folder).
Very well done...
Wow. This is very impressive. It would be trippy if IE can run https://win32.run again.
See also: https://www.windows93.net/
You cannot drag & drop the Recycle Bin :(
Love how Notepad has syntax highlighting for many languages and even has linting for JSON, HTML, and JS :)
So close that Microsoft Edge's heuristics picked it up as a potential scam after being used for a bit!
I loved XP. However, one of the first things I would do is make it look like Win2k. :-)
Looks good but it's a JavaScript look alike, it's not a real deal.
Yes please. Can I please have a simple desktop that doesn't get in my way back?
Looks good, always nice to see more web desktop environments.
The bootup sound brought a flash of joyful memories.
Not an authentic experience, it boots way too fast.
Would be perfect if got internet connection
The bootup sound brought a flood of old memories.
I got stuck in the serial number part
Playing Age of War right now.
Any support for Direct3D?
Insane how performant this is in the browser.
So disappointed it doesn't include OG solitaire!
Cool example, however yet another "runs best on IE" sites, ah sorry it is Chrome nowadays.
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Both the OS and Word 2003 run smoothly. It's quite a show. I think I might want to keep an old 16GB RAM laptop to run Windows 7, MS Office 2010 and VS 2012. I'll cut off as much Internet as possible and concentrate on my projects.
Edit: Just realized that this is not a VM, just a replicate. No wonder Word 2003 looks weird.