Legacy Update, a volunteer site that covers many applications, including Office viewers and older versions of DirectX, that Microsoft has removed



While various apps for Windows can be downloaded from the Microsoft

Download Center , apps for older operating systems that are no longer supported are no longer available for download. The Microsoft Download Center Archive , managed by the volunteer site Legacy Update , has an archive of many apps for older operating systems, including Windows XP.

Microsoft Download Center Archive - Legacy Update
https://legacyupdate.net/download-center/

The Microsoft Download Center Archive displays a list of available apps, including the Windows XP version of PowerToys, a convenient application packed with useful features, Office Viewers, which allows you to view files created with Office applications without Office installed, and older versions of the .Net Framework, which is required to run various applications.



The PowerToys page includes the file-syncing app 'SyncToy' and 'RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer,' which allows you to display thumbnails of RAW images in File Explorer.



Other archives include help files for older versions of Windows and DirectX runtimes.



Below is the details page for '

XPS Essentials Pack ,' which allows you to create and read XPS files. In addition to a description of the app, the page also lists the source of the downloadable data. The XPS Essentials Pack has already been removed from Microsoft's official page, and it appears to contain data stored on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. Please note that using unsupported apps and operating systems is entirely at your own risk.



The Microsoft Download Center Archive also lists apps that are still available for download from Microsoft's official website. For example, the ' Media Feature Pack for N and KN versions of Windows 10 ' is an app that adds Media Player to Windows 10 N and Windows 10 KN, which do not have Media Player pre-installed. The download page for this app is still available on the Microsoft official website.



Legacy Update also distributes tools that enable Windows Update on end-of-life operating systems such as Windows XP and Windows 7. Adam Demasi, the administrator of Legacy Update, also accepts donations through

GitHub Sponsors and Patreon .



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