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2001 was a busy year Apple was popping

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off Napster and Sega meanwhile threw in their respective towels we got three new

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game consoles one from a brand new Challenger scientists found this little

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guy and America had her worst day ever

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and for those of us who still remember all of that Windows XP holds a special

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place in our hearts but was it really that good or was it just better than the

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Millennium Edition and Vista dumpster fires that book ended it to find out we

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gathered some of our young and young at heart friends to see if they could

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navigate Microsoft's most iconic Windows

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ever there's lots more where that came from but before we get to it there's one

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more thing that came out in 2001 this segue well not this one exactly one like

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it wa does this thing even work not even a little we're still going to get to our

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out their metered pay as you go options using our link down below Windows XP was

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chalk full of important Milestones it was the first consumer version of

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Windows to be based on the more stable NT Kel it was the first to require

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Microsoft product activation online and it was the first major overhaul of the

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start menu since it was introduced back in Windows 95 it was also the first

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Windows to use graphical effects like Alpha compositing and drop Shadows to

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pretty up the interface and it introduced clear type for better

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readability on LCD displays which were

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just starting to approach affordability for the home user there were also big

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changes to the control panel Windows Explorer networks and internet

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connectivity multilanguage support and multimedia tools many of which have

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changed a fair bit since then so let's

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see if our test subjects are able to navigate our challenges I'm Katie and

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I'm 18 years old I am McIntyre and I am

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17 years old ah hi I'm Elijah Junior writer here I am 26 years old and I have

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actually never used Windows XP I've never even used Windows 7 whoa Windows

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XP is running on this display man I

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haven't used this since like 2001 I remember it was uh my favorite operating

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system all the way until probably Windows 10 you know the funny thing is

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it actually looks really alike like Windows hasn't actually changed all that

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much WoW the local area connection with the little two like monitors or whatever

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oh my God I forgot all about this stuff oh my God is the control panel the good

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one oh I can't search anymore no I have to actually hit the search button I want

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you to set up the screen saver where is it can I search for it try what was it

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called again probably pictures oh gosh this is bad oh my oh my

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gosh it's right there oh that one for

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sure oh that oh my God I forgot about all the screen savers oh where's the

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like pipes 3D pipes

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yeah all right well properties obviously

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desktop screen saver wait does this have

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the the pipes hell yeah there you go it

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has been applied so I think the first person to go to properties to do that oh

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where did everyone else go everyone El went contr

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the dog I forgot about the dog I remember Merlin yeah Merlin was dope who

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else Courtney Earl I don't remember Courtney or Earl I mostly just remember

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Merlin and Rover uh 100% using Merlin

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switch why didn't he switch oh he's going away and then he comes in what an

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animation oh my God uh probably my favorite thing that I used to do in XP

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was turn everything off so that I could get higher FPS in halflife and Counter

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Strike

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I took it sweet time all right my CD's in now we need to open it does this

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thing even open I don't think I've ever even touched one of these things I'm

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trying not to break it I have no clue

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okay now it's I've just gotten a bunch of options of different audio I can play

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the audio copy it play it from different I

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think apps I think I don't know how to do it no there's no copy just this is

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enable and disable selected tracks is there anything C

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right um oh yeah copy music oh there

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okay oh this will be easy I want track

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one and I want track six and I want

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track nine let's do one and

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24 wait now the 24 is gone okay this makes no sense okay now they're all gone

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now they're all unchecked what oh I can hear it it's oh the high pitch is

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actually really annoying it's doing a some sort of coil wine of some sort well

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it sounds like coil wine I don't know it's actually coil wine but like it it's

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that type of sound is it done holy crap this takes forever I

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could probably Google this CD faster on

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YouTube go to a youtube. mpp3 ripper

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don't do that by the way and then rip it faster than this this is crazy hey I got

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my my three songs all right good work now I want you to make an audio CD with

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those tracks insert blank SE okay well

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conveniently there there's a BL CD right

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here why are you so BR on it it's a CD

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they're they scratch like these do they

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oh okay now it's copying to the CD nice

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first one's done this is mine here you go there we

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go did you do I I did 15 and 16 okay so

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oh yeah yes sweet I got my own CD now

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right just clicking your drags no it's not click and drag oh copy insert blank

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CD I did a little

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closer huh they look the exact same what

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do you mean look closer at the drives one says LG one says DVD is it

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because this one says SEC your disc or super

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multi yeah the super multi is what you're after okay

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copy holy this is the fast version

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that's crazy to me dude this would drive me like if my Windows 10 or Windows 11

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computer was acting this slow I would immediately be reinstalling I'd be like

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something's wrong I forgot how long you'd put a CD in and you'd like rip it

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and then you'd walk away for a while cuz it actually takes some time what a

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process we just don't even do this anymore wow I get to open it I get the

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privilege sheesh

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amazing smells like 2,000 baby which

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one's what it should say on them select the programs you want to

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install I see it okay okay oh there it

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goes it's installing oh insert Microsoft Suite disc 2 and then why do it ask me

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to do dis 2 I yeah back in the day and

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this is after floppies too cuz you used to have to do this with floppies as well

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where you'd get like a stack of floppies and then you'd install them dis by dis

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and then CDs came out and they could hold a lot more information and that was great but you still had to do a lot of

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things one by one I remember installing Diablo I and you could skip part of the

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install but you wouldn't get the cinematics cuz they were all on like dis

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3 or whatever all right let's see if this just Auto launches it did setup wow

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this may take several minutes that's very true it would take even longer if

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it was on a hard drive with which everyone had back

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then all programs holy crap this is the

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worst organization I've ever seen in my entire

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life could not find streets and trips on this machine oh disc on this machine oh

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do I need to oh okay what the hell is the point of

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installing the program if I have to reinsert the disc

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anyways so it'll install what it needs to run

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oh is that just because like people didn't have hard drives like big enough

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back then probably a lot ofes yeah okay

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we did it wait how do I oh God I just H oh I

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can search lonus no that wouldn't work cuz

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it's what's our address right here would

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be the office that doesn't look anymore yeah it

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does not look like this I found the office let's go all right now let's doc

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Linus his exact address is I want to go

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to cheatcc.com cheat Cod Central because back then you could actually cheat in

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video games without like hacking wow member of the week this guy I don't know

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who he is but sure oh my God GameCube free CCC email DVD PlayStation codes you

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go to codes and you'd find codes and you'd enter them in you'd have to search by oh my God you'd search be like I want

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to play I want the crash band cheat codes and then you scroll down oh yeah

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cool borders 4 man this

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sucks is this because we're using web archive or is this how long it would

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take to load a website back then little call Little okay there's an Athlon

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xp800 is that oh and a motherboard so that's a

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combo 160 CAD for a motherboard CPU

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combo that's pretty good A Broadband

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router

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60 gig hard drive $140 Canadian

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dollars uh do you want to not be able to install the newest Call of Duty here's

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$140 have a good day that's crazy you play a lot of

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pitball nope played once in an arcade

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machine in a bowling alley but that's about it this was like the hot new game

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that came out with this version of Windows Bas yeah that's pretty

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sad yeah it's I got a new computer you

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want to play play Pinball with me here we go he was right here or is this a

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girl why' you hit her no I didn't hit

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her I'm right where the arrow oh yeah now I hit her my bad yo GTA 3 no max

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pain I love Max pain yo I want what's this monitor is it 1920 yeah hell yeah I

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want anti aling off yeah High settings everything's on high

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let's see how this game runs baby oh dude this is like 30 60 oh God my frames

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dropped oh God there's another

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one such a cool game dude this game is sick man it makes me

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respect where we're at now for operating

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systems I think like even even just the simple things like hitting Windows and

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search or the load times for things you

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know as much as I reminisce and like to think I miss XP

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it's really easy to just fly through Windows 11 there's a lot of like

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submenus that I originally was like oh why' they get rid of all these but once

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you get used to it it's so much faster looking back then Windows XP really was

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a huge step in the path toward modern Windows 95 and '98 deserve some credit

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they had vastly more usable interfaces than what came before them but they did

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nothing to solve the issues that were inherent with the dos-based reality that

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was behind behind the curtains 2000 addressed a lot of the stability and

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security concerns thanks to its business grade NT kernel but it was only intended

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for business users and was priced to match so it fell to XP to bring those

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benefits to the average user and aside

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from just stability there are glimpses of the future all over Windows XP the

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start menu moved away from the monolithic all programs list in favor of

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highlighting your most used app it had improved search meaning you didn't have

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to go digging for things quite so often and it had improved networking and

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internet features that were Central to ushering in the always connected world

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we live in now where most of what we do on a computer is in a web browser say

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with Wikipedia rather than loaded onto

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our machine with a disc like uh Microsoft and Carta speaking of

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mind-blowing things this will probably blow our younger viewers minds but

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thumbnails slideshows and the task pain those didn't exist before Windows XP and

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while auto run wasn't new there was finally enough functionality in the

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operating system and bundled apps for it to be genuinely useful as we saw in our

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music ripping and our disc burning challenges so XP you know what you stood

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up to the test of time even if your usability could have been a little

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