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Good job. I hope everyone who is looking for this info finds this page.

For me, IrfanView, Info-ZIP/Wiz, GnuWin suite, Audacious, Links, ELinks, Lynx, and K-Meleon were and would be requisite for a WinXP installation. Good ports of over half of my programs (some of which you mentioned) are available for Win9x/WinXP.

Good choices! I'm a big fan of links and k-meleon and I should've added them to the list from the start. I never used IrfanView much back in the day, but given it's still compatible with XP, I'll add it too.

Properly configured with its plugins, IrfanView is the single best general-purpose viewer, editor, and manager for raster images that I've used. A few buggy clones of it written in GTK/Qt came and went, and programs like ida/Phototonic/Mirage/etc. are great, but we've nothing that's qualitatively comparable for BSDs/Linuxes possessing its accessibility, functional sweep, or stability.

Good Win32/Win64 ports of Midnight Commander, ImageMagick, GraphicsMagick are also available, and plenty of other CLI/TUI programs can be compiled for either....I could go on and on!

How could I forget about ImageMagick, when I use it all the time! That's going on the list. Man, you know your stuff. Do you use XP often?

I haven't used XP in over a decade. When I did, I routinely sought out source and/or binaries for nearly everything that I use or play in Debian and FreeBSD that isn't for DOS, Win16, or wholly dependent on X11's libraries -- over 400 programs. | https://rbuchanan.neocities.org/links.html#Software

For GnuWin, *Magicks, etc., one can very easily edit Windows's environment variables to use anything as you would in a Unix-alike. Solid ports of bash and zsh don't hurt, either.

Yup, that's my experience using git for windows as my unix utils purveyor. It works very well.