Installing Acid Pro 6 requires Visual Studio Redistributable packages the Microsoft no longer has available.

At least, last I checked.

Historical preservation, retro computing, period-correct hardware setups.

There's a tool for blocking selected driver updates that still works on Windows 11. Very handy.

I have a legitimate need to replicate systems that are sometimes very legacy for security research (apps that sit on top, rather than the os itself). Building stuff like a base Windows XP image is easy enough, but sometimes system updates are required - even stuff like iirc tls1.2 isn’t supported in IE6