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[EvanAnderson]

Running old versions of Windows in emulation or virtualization is really easy.

[eppp → EvanAnderson]

Activating it isnt. I havent found a way to make the old version worth without installing some hacked fix that I have no idea if I can trust or not.

[EvanAnderson → eppp]

Windows 2000 was the sweet spot for that, for sure. A volume license version of Windows XP will activate without any "mothership" to talk to, as well.