• Windows XP at risk as antivirus vendors jump ship
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I keep XP in a VM for the very few non-DOS programs (read: one) that I can't get to behave properly in Win7 one way or the other. [editline]4th May 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=theaceattourney;40519505]The computer I am currently using has Windows XP and 256 megabytes of ram. I can run everything in my steam library with little to no lag or graphical issues. Come at me.[/QUOTE] The bullshit level's off the fucking charts!
[QUOTE=bohb;40511435]I've not used an AV for over a decade and have yet to get any sort of virus/malware. Being anal with browser security, using sandboxes for unknown/untrusted binaries and having a powerful router with segmented networking, plus a dedicated DMZ port for untrusted machines makes it nearly impossible to get anything.[/quote] And yet you'll never even know you've got something if you don't run scans. [editline]4th May 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=cueballv2themax;40523319]sitting here on my mothers computer. Windows XP Pro, 1.25GB ram, a 1.6GHz AMD Sempron and Office 2003. Can this seriously run W7? [/QUOTE] Yes it will. Her computer isn't much more powerful than my mom's overheating, perpetually-throttled-back-to-the-stone-age Celeron-based laptop and that runs W7 just fine. [editline]4th May 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=reedbo;40520365]I can't believe so many people who use computers on a daily basis are stuck with this mentality of "if it's not broken don't fix it". How can society expect to get any better if people are constantly thinking like this. Change is good.[/quote] Some change is good. Some change is absolute shit. Being able to tell what is good and what isn't good is vital, and sometimes applying "If it ain't broke" [i]is[/i] the right thing to do. Updating just for the sake of updating tends to break things on a fairly regular basis. Pick and choose which updates to install...new features you want, bugfixes, etc go in, random fluff that you'll never notice gets bent...all is good.
[QUOTE=The Pretender;40510599]I like watching reality TV and seeing people like homicide detectives still using XP, it's terrible.[/QUOTE] That might be a case of their specialized software not running with stability on modern systems, or the police departments simply not getting enough money. [editline]4th May 2013[/editline] Because the forensic software they use is [I]extremely[/I] expensive.
Stop using operating system x because operating system y is better.
[QUOTE=Talkbox;40531061]Stop using operating system x because operating system y is better.[/QUOTE] "Stop using operating system x because operating system x is officially several years out of date," is more accurate.
[QUOTE=Talkbox;40531061]Stop using operating system x because operating system y is better.[/QUOTE] More like "Stop using operating system X and then consider installing either Y, Z or W because otherwise you would not have an operating system."
[QUOTE=cueballv2themax;40525042]read that 2003 was incompatable with 7, will need to check that out. it's more ensuring the machine will last the next 5+ years, and from the way resource usage has increased from purely web browsing i want to make sure it's future proof.[/QUOTE] Just about any modern PC will probably last that long for common web browsing. My Core 2 Duo laptop from 2006 can adequately browse the internet, and that's with primitive integrated graphics, so there is next to no hardware acceleration for videos, web pages, and etc, which just about all modern computers have. RAM is really the only thing that really holds old PCs back, but that's fairly inexpensive and most computers come with a fairly large amount nowadays anyways (4 GB+). I would say the best thing you could do is wipe the computer's factory install of Windows 7 with all the junkware. Install a clean install of Windows 7 using the factory CD key, and install a decent antivirus. It will be blazing fast, and she will thank you in the long run.
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