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No more support for Windows XP

CORed said:
Both of my work machines (workstation and laptop) have been recently upgraded from XP to 7. Both are running noticeably faster on 7.
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7 does run a bit faster but that could partially, or substantially, be because it was a fresh install... depending upon how often you previously reinstalled XP.
 
OnlyTellsTruths said:
You forgot "get custom support for free". There are jillions of XP users. Odds are there will still be plenty of software and plenty of support for the foreseeable future.
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I didn't forget it. Since I was listing alternatives a banking concern might use I didn't include that sort of effort. I don't expect that large financial enterprises are going to be very enthusiastic about home brewed solutions found out in the wilds.

They're going to want a product with an identifiable, reputable, and ... not least ... culpable business presence. If they load up a patch that's toting malware they're gonna want to be able to blame the people they got it from, and if that isn't a business which specializes in providing safe software then they won't have anywhere to duck and cover. Helpful XP hangers-on out there on the web won't give them that.
 
quadraginta said:
They're going to want a product with an identifiable, reputable, and ... not least ... culpable business presence.
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I'm glad you added "culpable" to that! :D


quadraginta said:
Does Win 7 run faster than Win 8 on the same hardware? Is it more secure? Does it run with less hardware resources?
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The answer to the first question is usually no as far as I am aware, depending upon the hardware.

The answer to the second and third questions are probably negligible.
 
Well, my MSE icon turned yellow a few days ago and today it turned red. For as long as we keep this good ol' machine I presume <sob>.

A permanent reminder that I need to give MS some more money.
 
I ordered my new Dell machine about five days ago, running Windows 7. Two 250 GB SSD drives, so bye-bye disks. Kind of sad, in a way.

Fun statistic from the IBM System/360 50th anniversary celebration today: One zEC12 microprocessor has the same computing power as 10,000 football fields worth of S/360 machine rooms in 1964.

~~ Paul
 
Paul C. Anagnostopoulos said:
I ordered my new Dell machine about five days ago, running Windows 7. Two 250 GB SSD drives, so bye-bye disks. Kind of sad, in a way.

Fun statistic from the IBM System/360 50th anniversary celebration today: One zEC12 microprocessor has the same computing power as 10,000 football fields worth of S/360 machine rooms in 1964.

~~ Paul
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My roommate is running 7 on a singe core machine so not impossible to run it even on a pretty old machine.

Maybe for a boot drive, an SSD would be alright but I have something like 13 Tb of hard drives (I keep quadruple backups of most of my stuff and have a lot of space remaining)
 
Desert Fox said:
Maybe for a boot drive, an SSD would be alright but I have something like 13 Tb of hard drives (I keep quadruple backups of most of my stuff and have a lot of space remaining)
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Oh yes, I put backups on external hard drives. I only have about 5 TB, though.

I'll use one of the SSD drives for C: and the other for D:. The only thing I put on D: is the pagefile, temp, Distiller queue, and temporary archival data.

~~ Paul
 
Is there any way to turn off the annoying message from MSE that pops up every time I restart my computer without disabling MSE messages in general (i.e. Security--> change the way MSE warns me -->disable messages)?

Can you upgrade from or use Vista CD keys for Win7 or Win8?
 
Paul C. Anagnostopoulos said:
Oh yes, I put backups on external hard drives. I only have about 5 TB, though.

I'll use one of the SSD drives for C: and the other for D:. The only thing I put on D: is the pagefile, temp, Distiller queue, and temporary archival data.
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I may get a 250 Gb SSD in the next few months, finances allowing .
Plan to use it in place of a 320 GB conventional drive.
My understanding is that it makes things load almost instantly.
 
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What the ????

Just went to close down this XP machine for the night, and got an 'updates pending' message, 'click here to shut down without installing updates' etc.

Is this an IE update or an XP-related hackattack? ;) How would I tell?

Better decline the offer, pending further information.
 
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I just moved all my data and settings from a XP machine to Win 7 using the free Laplink product that Bill so kindly provided me.

I could not get the original Microsoft native transfer product to work for me. Although, both machines are visible to each other on my network and I verified I could transfer data both ways, and read and write from each machine to the other, the software on the Win 7 computer could not find the XP box.

Laplink seems to have worked. I have not fully checked yet but it says it has. However, be warned, it takes a long long time. When I went to bed last night it had been running for over five hours and the progress bar showed about 10% done. My guesstimate was for it to run for another day. But it had finished by the time I got up.

My next step is to put both computers on a KVM and do some triage-based moving of software.

YMMV & etc.
 
bigred said:
Alareth said:
I have an XP machine at work. I'm afraid it will explode and kill everyone in a 500 ft radius.
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If only I had such a machine.
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Get a Mac.

Everyone knows that whatever a Windows machine can do an Apple does it better.

If your Mac exploded it would be more fabulous, and all of the victims would feel special.
 
Contrary to calls of not panicking, the government office I work at uses XP and everyone's PCs are breaking and giving warnings about support ending. I am guessing it must involve so the extra security tools we use?

Also, we have two W7 laptops and they both give us warnings that they are not genuine. Completely unrelated, but very funny.
 
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