The key is that the Internet Archive not only archives the pages themselves, it also archives the downloads that are linked to on those pages! As long as you can access the pages, you'll be able to access the downloads. Microsoft has already removed most Windows XP pages, but I have described in detail in this forum how to access them. This is why it is critical to use the Internet Archive! Right now is the proper time to download and make notes. will become "take v7") and the full installers will have vanished. Within 2 years, the information about Xp compatibility will be lost (7. Check for instance Google Earth's download page: it offers only v7.1 and v6.2, without any indication about what version fits W2k or W98-Me.
It is paramount not to rely on them, but instead note down this information and store the complete installers on one's hard disk. But as a seasoned W2k user, I want to warn the Xp users that archive webpages use to disappear without warning, don't mention the program's language all too often, give wrong information about what Windows can run the application, tend to become incomplete as time passes, and so on.
I've noted down carefully the archive pages for Firefox, Opera, Flash Player, Java. It must be installed from a session with admin rights (if not, the installer fails silently.) then it runs from an Xp poweruser session and maybe from a normal user session, and is multilingual.īuilt-in display of Pdf in Firefox: yes, but it doesn't fill Pdf forms, that's why I do bother with Foxit. Thanks a lot for the download address of Google Earth 7.! I usually use WinRar for many files, and the current 5.40 version runs fine on XP: The Opera archive page offers vintage versions back to 3.21 (2002) and is available here: UPDATE : link no longer works. fixed compatibility problems with Windows XP, according to this link: ĭirect full installer for 7.1 is on that page: ĭirect full installer for 6.2 is on that page: UPDATE : link no longer works, use mine: (Select the version number, then navigate to the /win32 or /win64 directory (I don't know if the /win64 versions are compatible with XP 64-bit)įor legacy versions of Flash Player, you can always download them from Adobe's Archived Flash Player page, all the way back to version 2.0 from 1996: (for versions from 2010 to 2016, the second heading, "Flash Player archives" for versions from 1996-2016, the last heading, "Older archives"): įull Google Earth installers are on this page: I don't bother with Adobe / Acrobat Reader anymore being that Chrome and Firefox have built in capability- they also seem faster at loading than Reader.įull installers of Firefox versions from the original 0.8 to the current Firefox 50 can be downloaded from the FTP repository:
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