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Old June 27th 20, 10:56 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default Why do you still use Windows XP and why?

Is it because of very old softwares that don't work in newer hardwares
and OSes? If so, then what do you do for its security? Do you keep the PC
offline? Just curious.

Thank you for reading and hopefully answering.
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Old June 27th 20, 11:34 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default Why do you still use Windows XP and why?

Ant wrote:
Is it because of very old softwares that don't work in newer hardwares
and OSes? If so, then what do you do for its security? Do you keep the PC
offline? Just curious.

Thank you for reading and hopefully answering.


I'd tell you, but you're probably offline.

Paul
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Old June 27th 20, 11:52 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Paul wrote:
Ant wrote:
Is it because of very old softwares that don't work in newer hardwares
and OSes? If so, then what do you do for its security? Do you keep the PC
offline? Just curious.

Thank you for reading and hopefully answering.


I'd tell you, but you're probably offline.


Soon, Paul. :P
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Old June 28th 20, 12:01 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default Why do you still use Windows XP and why?

Something like 40 authors in 400 posts could barely come up with ten things
that you might want to do in Windows 10 that you can't do in almost every
prior Windows version.
o *What can you do on Windows 10 that you can't do on Windows XP or Windows 7?*
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/fJBY472ds3E
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Even the START MENU from Windows XP ports over to Windows 10 with a simple
copy of the file hierarchy and it works out of the box in my setup.
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Old June 28th 20, 12:15 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Arlen Holder[_9_]
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Default Why do you still use Windows XP?

On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 17:52:33 -0500, Ant wrote:

I'd tell you, but you're probably offline.


Soon, Paul. :P


Since you asked, one reason I keep WinXP around is for the menus.
o It's trivial to just _copy_ WinXP menus over to Win10 for example:

Here's a set of screenshots of just that from one of my tutorials:
o http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=2635699winxp_menus_on_win10.jpg
o http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=2796904winxp_menu_on_win10.jpg
o http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=5364242winxp_menu_example01.jpg
o http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=2539943taskbar00.jpg

I have an old Dell laptop, whose screen is dead and which has only 500MB of
RAM, which works just fine on WinXP as my USB printer/scanner interface.

I recently copied the START MENU over to a newly set up Win10 machine, and
it worked right out of the box, as per my well-designed menu hierarchy:
o Why does anyone bother to install Classic Shell on Windows
if all they want is the WinXP accordion-style sliding cascade Start Menu?
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/dTHKXIdlqcw

As for bugfixes, even Windows 10 is full of holes, but, even so, lately I
pull the cat5 (it doesn't even have WiFi), but not out of any sense of fear
but more out of propriety (it doesn't need to be on my LAN full time).
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Even the START MENU from Windows XP ports over to Windows 10 with a simple
copy of the file hierarchy and it works out of the box in my setup.
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Old June 28th 20, 12:17 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default Why do you still use Windows XP and why?

On Saturday, June 27, 2020 at 5:34:45 PM UTC-5, Paul wrote:
Ant wrote:
Is it because of very old softwares that don't work in newer hardwares
and OSes? If so, then what do you do for its security? Do you keep the PC
offline? Just curious.

Thank you for reading and hopefully answering.


I'd tell you, but you're probably offline.

Paul


That's funny.

:-)

Andy
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Old June 28th 20, 04:43 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 16:56:44 -0500,
NT (Ant) wrote:

Is it because of very old softwares that don't work in newer hardwares
and OSes? If so, then what do you do for its security? Do you keep the PC
offline? Just curious.

Thank you for reading and hopefully answering.


My XP machine is just running older software that won't run on
anything newer. It is also a machine that runs XP well but may be
dragging in the mud with 7 or 10.
I still prefer XP but too much stuff stopped working, mostly video.
You are right, the XP machines are air gapped from the internet.

I am still running some DOS apps too but they run fine in DOSBOX on 7.


Well, Windows 10 is not a replacement for *anything*.

Five years, and it's like Vista (and not Vista SP2 either!).
At least with Vista, when it got to SP2, it was mostly
settled down.

And then you're comparing the lack of support for WinXP SP3
with the lack of support for Windows 7 SP1. Sure, stuff works
better in Windows 7 SP1 - browsers still work. But you can be
assured the industry will "fix that" eventually.

So rather than this being a "hierarchy of badness", a smooth
stairstep function, the situation is a lot more uneven than that.
There's nothing but bad choices. You can eat half-baked cakes
or eat half-baked pies, your choice.

Paul
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Old June 28th 20, 03:00 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Lu Wei
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Default Why do you still use Windows XP and why?

On 2020-6-28 5:56, Ant wrote:
Is it because of very old softwares that don't work in newer hardwares
and OSes? If so, then what do you do for its security? Do you keep the PC
offline? Just curious.

Thank you for reading and hopefully answering.

IMO the most important reason is, newer OSes demand more and more
resources, they tend to not support old hardware, or not run as good as
old OSes on old hardware.

As to security, no problem at the moment, not until something so vicious
like "Sasser" come again. And as hackers would not put effort to XP now,
that possibility is low.

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Old June 29th 20, 09:40 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default Why do you still use Windows XP?

Arlen Holder wrote:
On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 17:52:33 -0500, Ant wrote:
I'd tell you, but you're probably offline.


Soon, Paul. :P
I'd tell you, but you're probably offline.


Soon, Paul. :P


Since you asked, one reason I keep WinXP around is for the menus.


I'm back again for now. :P


o It's trivial to just _copy_ WinXP menus over to Win10 for example:


Here's a set of screenshots of just that from one of my tutorials:
o http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=2635699winxp_menus_on_win10.jpg
o http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=2796904winxp_menu_on_win10.jpg
o http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=5364242winxp_menu_example01.jpg
o http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=2539943taskbar00.jpg


But that's W10 with WXP frontend. :P


I have an old Dell laptop, whose screen is dead and which has only 500MB of
RAM, which works just fine on WinXP as my USB printer/scanner interface.


U mean 512 MB.


I recently copied the START MENU over to a newly set up Win10 machine, and
it worked right out of the box, as per my well-designed menu hierarchy:
o Why does anyone bother to install Classic Shell on Windows
if all they want is the WinXP accordion-style sliding cascade Start Menu?
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/dTHKXIdlqcw


As for bugfixes, even Windows 10 is full of holes, but, even so, lately I
pull the cat5 (it doesn't even have WiFi), but not out of any sense of fear
but more out of propriety (it doesn't need to be on my LAN full time).


I'm avoiding 10 & using 64-bit W7. Once in a while (very rare), XP Pro. SP3.
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Old July 2nd 20, 03:36 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Great answer. Succinct. It's probably my #1. But
close seconds would be:

Security.
Leanness.
Responsiveness. (It does what I tell it without arguing.)
Pliability. (It never tells me I don't have permission.)
Acclimation.

So far I'm not having problems with software
that won't run on XP. And as far as I know, everything
I use will run on 7 and probably 10, though there might
be minor glitches. I'm not sure. I haven't tried actually
doing work on anything but XP. I use 7 for riskier online
activities, as a sacrificial lamb system.

I've found Win7 somewhat salvageable. If I
needed a new box now I'd probably try to build
Win7, as I don't think I can get hardware for XP
anymore. But I'd hate to pay top dollar for a copy
of an OS that I'm really not fond of.

And don't get me started on the harebrained idea
of running XP in a VM.


 




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