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Aren't you wearied of Windows XP?
Hi all.
Using XP many websites are no longer available because of new protocols or new certificates not compatible. Many programs are no longer available as they run in newer versions of Windows only. I still love XP but I begin to weary of it. Perhaps the break of my main hard disk will push me to carry out the "great step" to Windows 10. What about you? GF |
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The new Year's Resolution for everybody should be to use HTML enabled NewsReader such as Mozilla Thunderbird. All my posts are designed to block plain text readers. .. . . -- With over 1.2 billion devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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On Sat, 2 Jan 2021 18:19:01 +0100, "G.F." wrote:
Hi all. Using XP many websites are no longer available because of new protocols or new certificates not compatible. Many programs are no longer available as they run in newer versions of Windows only. I still love XP but I begin to weary of it. Perhaps the break of my main hard disk will push me to carry out the "great step" to Windows 10. What about you? GF I loaded 7 on the machines that need it but a lot of stuff still runs just fine on XT. In fact I have some things that won't run on 7. |
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On Sat, 2 Jan 2021 17:40:11 +0000, ? Good Guy ?
wrote: . . . The new Year's Resolution for everybody should be to use HTML enabled NewsReader such as Mozilla Thunderbird. All my posts are designed to block plain text readers. . . . Nobody really gives a **** what you write anyway but this is a TEXT newsgroup. |
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"G.F." wrote in message
... | Hi all. | Using XP many websites are no longer available because of new protocols or | new certificates not compatible. | Many programs are no longer available as they run in newer versions of | Windows only. It is becoming more work. I used to fix up old machines and give them to people. These days most people couldn't use XP. But for me it's still pretty much fine. Everything I want is here. Some pages don't work, where I need a lot of script, but that's mostly due to my security, blocking things with HOSTS file, not sending referrers, and so on. For the rare cases where I really need script, I typically use a Win7 box. For everything else it's XP. Libre Office, image editing, programming.... I still use VB6, which is still arguably the most widely supported tool in the history of Windows. I can write software that runs on Win98 to Win10 with no extra support files needed. So I think it really depends on what you want to do. XP is not going to be good if you're a Google addict using gmail webmail, for instance, because Google like to force people to new software. But you could get gmail via POP in OE6. I think the big thing that's changed is that people are increasingly using services. Someone Zooms, then writes a paper in MS Office 365, then logs into Twitter, then starts up Adobe CS so they can put devil horns on a photo of their ex.... None of that works well on XP. A crappy tablet would actually be more functional. |
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G.F. wrote:
Hi all. Using XP many websites are no longer available because of new protocols or new certificates not compatible. Many programs are no longer available as they run in newer versions of Windows only. I still love XP but I begin to weary of it. Perhaps the break of my main hard disk will push me to carry out the "great step" to Windows 10. What about you? GF I think you mean the "great step to a new computer", which will cost you a few bucks. If you have a P4 for example, in your Windows XP machine, you can't load Windows 10 on there. Windows 10, comfortably, should be given a 4-core CPU at a minimum. With a 2GHz clock or higher. The machine should have a video card for which a WDDM driver is available. For example, an FX5200 is not good enough. Don't bother with an AGP slot - only PCI Express video cards are practical. Nothing else will have a driver. So really, to be practical and honest about this, Windows 10 is a new computer, to get hardware strong enough to run it. For example, storage should be SATA SSD or NVMe SSD drive, to get the performance to make boot up as fast as it is now. Your movie storage drive can be a separate spinning HDD drive. Paul |
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On Sat, 02 Jan 2021 17:00:33 -0500, Paul
wrote: G.F. wrote: Hi all. Using XP many websites are no longer available because of new protocols or new certificates not compatible. Many programs are no longer available as they run in newer versions of Windows only. I still love XP but I begin to weary of it. Perhaps the break of my main hard disk will push me to carry out the "great step" to Windows 10. What about you? GF I think you mean the "great step to a new computer", which will cost you a few bucks. If you have a P4 for example, in your Windows XP machine, you can't load Windows 10 on there. Windows 10, comfortably, should be given a 4-core CPU at a minimum. With a 2GHz clock or higher. The machine should have a video card for which a WDDM driver is available. For example, an FX5200 is not good enough. Don't bother with an AGP slot - only PCI Express video cards are practical. Nothing else will have a driver. So really, to be practical and honest about this, Windows 10 is a new computer, to get hardware strong enough to run it. For example, storage should be SATA SSD or NVMe SSD drive, to get the performance to make boot up as fast as it is now. Your movie storage drive can be a separate spinning HDD drive. Paul I am running 7 on a 2.3gz dual core intel of some sort with 3g of RAM. The only thing that is clunky is Facebook. They start stacking scripts in there and I run out of RAM. When you start, it runs fine but as your session goes on memory usage climbs and pretty soon you are paging to just type. (Facebook alone using well over 2G). All I can figure is once they load a script, it stays. If you close out and restart it is OK for a while. Looking at "notifications" really shoves it's face in the mud. I did buy more RAM but it didn't seem to be compatible. They took it back. I may try again or I may just stop using Facebook ;-) |
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"G.F." wrote:
Perhaps the break of my main hard disk will push me to carry out the "great step" to Windows 10. What about you? XP is still fine for me and I have Win7 (which I don't like much) to fall back on when needed. I hate the bloated, resource and bandwith- wasting mess that is 10 and if forced to move, I'll likely go to Linux. The NT line of OS has reach the point where I'm no longer in full control of it. You should give Linux some serious thought for your system since it might not be a high enough spec for 10. (Posting this mesage from Win2k) |
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On Sat, 2 Jan 2021 18:19:01 +0100, "G.F." wrote: Hi all. Using XP many websites are no longer available because of new protocols or new certificates not compatible. Many programs are no longer available as they run in newer versions of Windows only. I still love XP but I begin to weary of it. Perhaps the break of my main hard disk will push me to carry out the "great step" to Windows 10. What about you? GF I loaded 7 on the machines that need it but a lot of stuff still runs just fine on XT. In fact I have some things that won't run on 7. Wow. IBM PC XT? -- NY! Let's hope 2021 will be better. Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://aqfl.net & http://antfarm.home.dhs.org. / /\ /\ \ Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail. | |o o| | \ _ / ( ) |
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Apd wrote:
"G.F." wrote: Perhaps the break of my main hard disk will push me to carry out the "great step" to Windows 10. What about you? XP is still fine for me and I have Win7 (which I don't like much) to fall back on when needed. I hate the bloated, resource and bandwith- wasting mess that is 10 and if forced to move, I'll likely go to Linux. The NT line of OS has reach the point where I'm no longer in full control of it. You should give Linux some serious thought for your system since it might not be a high enough spec for 10. (Posting this mesage from Win2k) Woah, W2K. What else do you use in it? -- NY! Let's hope 2021 will be better. Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://aqfl.net & http://antfarm.home.dhs.org. / /\ /\ \ Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail. | |o o| | \ _ / ( ) |
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"Ant" wrote:
Apd wrote: (Posting this mesage from Win2k) Woah, W2K. What else do you use in it? Not much these days. Some software development, archiving. It dual boots to MSDOS if I fancy playing with that. |
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Aren't you wearied of Windows XP?
"G.F." wrote in :
Hi all. Using XP many websites are no longer available because of new protocols or new certificates not compatible. Many programs are no longer available as they run in newer versions of Windows only. I still love XP but I begin to weary of it. Perhaps the break of my main hard disk will push me to carry out the "great step" to Windows 10. What about you? GF I'm still using it as it still serves my purposes. My demands of it are minimal. I guess I will have to upgrade or switch at some point, but right now most everything I access online still works. Maybe I'll look into a Chromebook or Linux as an alternative. Dee |
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Aren't you wearied of Windows XP?
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It works I can navigate the interface. Is how ever, an "average" OS - worse than what came before, better than what came after, in terms of intrusiveness, bloat ware, fixing things which don't need fixing, and getting in my way while I try to get some work done. -- APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5 |
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