Updates, programs, and files for Windows XP, some of which are hard to find because Microsoft took them down.
directx_Jun2010_redist.exe - Latest DirectX redistributable files for XP - 7.
dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64.exe - .NET Framework 4.0.3019 for both 32 and 64 bit.
dotnetfx351.exe - .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1
EXFAT_DRIVER.exe - Adds native EXFat support (reading, writing, formatting with the format dialog).
F6_FLOPPY_FIX.txt - Describes how to use F6 floppy drivers during Windows setup with a USB floppy drive
IE8_INSTALL.exe - Internet Explorer 8 x86 for Win XP.
IE_8_CUMULATIVE.exe - Many I.E. updates in one WSU package.
MP10Setup.exe - Windows Media Player 10, because some (like me) don't like WMP 11. This package is slightly different from the WMP10 still available in Microsoft's update catalog, as it is windows xp specific, which shows in the fact it is slightly larger than the one for vista.
MSIEXEC_4.5.exe - Latest version of MSI installer (XP SP3 comes with 3.0)
MTPPK12.exe - Backports MTP support to XP, note that It will not work at all with WMP9, Works for VIEWING only with WMP10, and that to have all features like write support to devices, you need WMP11. Hence, be careful with choosing this and the WMP10 package.
Windows XP Certificate Updater v1.6 - Program to update the root certificates (needed for Web Browsing and TLS) since they removed the server.
rktools.exe - Windows 2003 resource kit tools, works just fine on XP, as there was never a resource kit for xp released publicly (though there was a small subset of these released in a small resource kit that one could order with a technet subscription).
SysinternalsSuite.zip - Older version of sysinternals suite that still works with XP (approximated by using web.archive.org to find one with process explorer that would run on xp, and since I didn't look at ALL the snapshots, there may be slightly newer versions that work with xp, but anything after mid 2015 wont work for many of the tools)
WANNACRY_PATCH.exe - The strange singular patch that Miscrosoft released years after XP's end of support, for the WannaCry vulnerability.
WindowsXP-SP3-DeployTools.zip - Enterprise deployment tools, an updated SP3 release from 2008
WinXPPAE_v35.zip - Enables PAE on 32 bit XP
WMITools.exe - Old WMI developer package. Works with 2000 and Vista, and 7 with compatability mode and opening the HTML based tools in IE (because it uses active content, blocked by modern browsers)
XP_NET4_FIX.txt - Describes how to fix login hanging after installing .NET Framework 4
AwayMode - Drivers for "Away Mode" for Windows XP Media Center Edition, including an AMD "null" driver for other OSes.
MSVC - Has all the Visual C++ Redistributables
x64 - Has copies of some of these files for 64 bit versions of XP and Server 2003. Also has the Windows MFM + PowerShell 2.0 update, as well as TweakUI for x64.
reg - Contains useful registry files
Themes - Has many official, beta, and unreleased themes from Microsoft, as well as the 3D XP Flag screensaver from Plus! for Windows XP.
PROGS - Contains XP compatible versions (and sometimes x64 versions thereof) of:
7-Zip 19.00
Auslogics Disk Defrag 8.0.24.0
AquaSnap
CCleaner
Google Chrome
CPUSTRES
DiskLED by Helge Klein
Firefox (requires MSVC redist. 2010)
Gavotte RAMDisk
Geany
GIMP 2 + Offline Help Installer
Git
HP USB Formatter Tool
IconViewer
Intel Processor ID Utility
Intel SSD Toolbox
DOS Killdisk
Meld Merge
MP3Tag
mpv
Mypal (classic PaleMoon-based one)
Multi-Monitor Taskbar
Nano for Win32
Naraeon SSD Tools (Allows you to TRIM an SSD on XP!)
Notepad++
Open Hardware Monitor (requires .NET Framework 4)
Opera
My own PAGEFILEMON .vbs script for monitoring pagefile.sys usage
QBittorrent
rammonitor.exe
Resize Enable by Digi Tallis
Resource Hacker
VLC Media Player
WinTimerTester
WiseCare 365
xp_activate32
XPDFReader
Doug Knox's XP PageFileMon
Windows XP Powertoys from 2005