Windows XP's end is nigh.
The aging operating system will soon lose support from Microsoft, and the company has announced two initiatives to help those still using XP. The software giant launched XP twelve years ago.
Starting April 8th, there will be no more security updates or technical support for the OS, effectively making the OS unsafe for future use.
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aldan, is the boss's computer on the net now or not?
TekPete, go with win7 as win8 is vista 2 or ME3 or wait til win9 comes out next year. will have to do a fresh install of whatever windows you go with as can't do an upgrade from xp.
xboxdvl2, try a brand new dell laptop running vista with 512megs of ram. talk about slow. was eventually upgraded to 2gigs of ram.
Originally posted by Mr-Movies: I've run 7 on 512MB's of RAM but it runs very slow as it does on 1GB as well. It will work well on 2GB/4GB of RAM which was the point.
ive seen 7 running on a laptop think it was a pentium D with 2gbs ram laptop was selling for $50 it ran but slowly.
I wouldn't doubt that at all but most likely the problem there was the video card. Turn off Aero and I bet it would run just fine, in fact I would guarantee it unless there were other issues that would cause even XP to slow down.
Originally posted by tommyo54: Is there a way to either burn the Windows updates to disk, or a way to save them for future use? Hope it's not a silly question but I'm not too computer smart; I'm an elderly gent here and want to stay with XP for time being.
Yes, you can download all of the updates and push them from your own server or batch them but if you are not tech savvy it might be too much for you since either way you do it it can be tricky if your not aware of the issues. You can also manually install each update but that will be a lot of screwing around and you can still run into issues with the order the updates are installed and if certain ones cause problems to the updates that follow them.
Win7 will run on most PC's that run XP if you can have at least 2GB's of RAM for (x86) 4GB's for (x64). Win8 works better with newer MB's that are compatible with it. As to program compatibility 7 won't run all of your XP programs but will run most of them. Win8 isn't as compatible with old programs as 7 and you'll loose those programs.
If MS won't active XP in the future there are ways to activate it manually if you dig around on the net but I would think you'll still be able to even though updates will no longer be generated..
Yeah, on top of that, you can install SP3 separately (or have it streamed in the install) that will take care of a lot of updates. The rest can be found in places on the internet.
I would shift to Win7 if you could though. Even if you had to get hold of a old S/H poot with 1-2 gigs of ram. Avoid old AMD single core cpus.
