- I spent nearly all of Wednesday installing Windows XP — yes, Windows XP — to a faster laptop than the one I'm typing this one on for purposes that...well, let's just say I'm in the process of facilitating my writing process and installing a copy of XP on that laptop is a necessary part of my goal. I doubt anyone wants to know all the dirty details about why I still want to run an operating system that is three generations old and losing is relevancy with each passing hour. Suffice it to say that I spent way too much valuable time installing Windows XP Professional and never want to have to go through the process again. It's 2012 — XP was released about twelve years ago — and I'm going to tell you what I'd do differently should I ever need to install Windows XP again.