Installing XP is going to be daunting for many. There are no less than 150 patches, drivers and apps to install on a fresh install so my question is going to be. Why not use Dell's supplied OS and Driver CD to avoid all the work?
It's not like you're going to find a step by step for this today unless you pay Dell to support this.
If you used the supplied OS and Driver CD then that gets you a working machine then you can let Windows Update install the 100+ patches over the next day.
-> DO NOT USE WINDOWS UPDATE FOR DRIVERS.
You have a great question. But after a decade you would have expected some progress on installing Windows XP but it appears to have stalled or worse.
Bob
I'm running windows xp. My battery meter shows no battery present. I've tried the microsoft articles on getting it to display, but to no avail.
Details: Dell inspiron 6000 Laptop from about 2007.
window xp home edition version 5.1 (build 2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.12081-1629:service pack 3)
Dell has 15 pages of admin packs to download for xp users i have no idea what's needed.
Any ideas help would be greatly appreciated.

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