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[[File:Bliss.jpeg|thumb|Bliss, originally known as Bucolic Green Hills, is the default and popular wallpaper of Windows XP]]

Windows NT 3.1-4.0,Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista were based on Windows NT. Playing games released for these platforms on a modern system can be quite easy as programs can be run on later windows latest Windows without sacrifices in due to backwards compability.<ref>https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/make-older-apps-or-programs-compatible-with-windows-783d6dd7-b439-bdb0-0490-54eea0f45938</ref> However this '''may''' change in the near future due to dropping 16 and 32-bit support from processors.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FpXimj1oA René Rebe: Intel finally to remove 16-bit REAL MODE and some 32b RINGS]<br/ref><ref>[[Wikipedia:X86#From_16-bit_and_32-bit_to_64-bit_architecture|In 2023, Intel proposed a major change to the architecture referred to as x86-S (with S standing for "simplification"), which aims to remove support for legacy execution modes and instructions]].</ref>. For example if a program runs on Windows 7, there is a big chance it will work on Windows 10 and so on. If the program however doesn't know to work on Windows 7, compatibility settings can be used to work with the aforementioned operating system, which will also work in Windows 10.

But...if If you are trying to get them Windows 2000, XP or Vista software workingon a modern system, you should only be using this page as a last resort and would be better suited to read the [https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/ PCGamingWikiPC Gaming Wiki], which likely already has information on the game you want. If you don't have the game operating system you want, you can download it from [https://winworldpc.com/library/operating-systems WinWorldPC], and if you don't have the game you want or it's not available on the platforms like [https://store.steampowered.com/ Steam] or [https://www.gog.com/ GOG], ; you can try downloading it from [https://www.myabandonware.com/ My Abandonware].