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Old January 2nd 21, 06:19 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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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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Old January 2nd 21, 06:40 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Old January 2nd 21, 08:33 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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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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Old January 2nd 21, 08:34 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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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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Old January 2nd 21, 09:36 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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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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Old January 2nd 21, 11:00 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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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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Old January 3rd 21, 02:18 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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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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Old January 3rd 21, 02:54 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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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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Old January 3rd 21, 04:07 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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wrote:
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 ;-)


There are several generations of hardware, where the
top capacity DIMM has to be "low density". Let's say the
manufacturer tells you the largest DIMM is 4GB, then
it has to be 4GB with 16 chips on it (8 on each side).
Then, somebody sells single sided (high density) DIMMs
and the DIMM is only half-detected (reports as 2GB due to
address signals being one short of what is needed.

Some of the issues are handled by the slot&key coding.
But not all of them. Density isn't handled that way,
and takes humans to sort out.

Kingston used to be pretty good at this sport. They
provided a datasheet, and if the picture showed sixteen
chips, you got sixteen chips, period and end of story.
But then one day, a particular product, they were randomly
filling it with 8 chip and 16 chip modules. When they
know better. The data sheet showed 16 chips, the shipped
product did not always match.

Crucial used to be a good source of old stock, but the bean
counters got in there and cut out the stuff we like. Leaving
only the volume products. You can no longer count on them
for 256MB PC133 SDRAM - they were practically the last
source you could trust to ship the right item.

Paul
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Old January 3rd 21, 08:00 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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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)


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Old January 3rd 21, 12:54 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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"Ant" wrote:
Apd wrote:
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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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Old January 3rd 21, 01:02 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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"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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Old January 3rd 21, 04:30 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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no.

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.

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