I have an XP OS on my multi-boot Test box.
I've been waiting SOOOO LOONG to get rid of it, just to reduce my "Monthly maintenance time".
I only kept it to help some people that were still using XP, and asked me for help.
It was nice if I could test something on my test box, before I changed their PC.
Everyone I personally help is off XP now :)

Now I'm wondering if I should just leave the OS "installed as-is", and not use it.
Wait to see what really happens with all the folks that do use it "daily".

I've read some other threads here where people are using OLDER versions of Win such as 98, ME, 3.1, ... for whatever reason.

If this old Test Box (and me) is still kicking 10 years from now, it might be a nostalgic moment for me to see XP

Ironically enough, I actually nuked Avast off my P4 Windows XP machine when I performed its final Windows Update routine last week. Avast kept complaining about WU trying to do things, and that combined with its already annoying performance just convinced me to finally drop the anvil and nuke it.

Haven't installed a replacement yet, but seeing as I don't get any viruses anyway I doubt I'll actually look into it any further.

Since a lot of large organizations have elected to pay for continued XP support, I predict that the post 'end of support' XP security patches will get leaked to torrent + warez sites, thus enabling XP use for a few more years. I guess this will be balanced by a rash of 'click here to update XP' malware ads.

3D Jed said:

Since a lot of large organizations have elected to pay for continued XP support, I predict that the post 'end of support' XP security patches will get leaked to torrent + warez sites, thus enabling XP use for a few more years. I guess this will be balanced by a rash of 'click here to update XP' malware ads.

Yes, I wondered at the time how organisations paying for continued support will actually be supplied with these updates. What seems a certainty (to me) is that if they do appear on unauthorised sites then they would be an easy target to add malware to them......

Hi there
I STILL don't understand what's wrong with THIS version of windows !!!!! (Scrshot below)

Always worked fine for me - unlike some of the more modern OS'es. !!!

Who needs all this "new fangled stuff" anyway.

Cheers
jimbo

jimbo45 said:

Hi there
I STILL don't understand what's wrong with THIS version of windows !!!!! (Scrshot below)

Always worked fine for me - unlike some of the more modern OS'es. !!!

Who needs all this "new fangled stuff" anyway.

Cheers
jimbo

Absolutely nothing, of course. As long as it works for you, you may use for as long as there is hardware capable of running it.

There is a fundamental difference between Win1 and XP. XP can do everything Win 7/8 can do, Windows 1 cannot.

jimbo45 said:

Hi there
I STILL don't understand what's wrong with THIS version of windows !!!!! (Scrshot below)

Always worked fine for me - unlike some of the more modern OS'es. !!!

Who needs all this "new fangled stuff" anyway.

Cheers
jimbo

Wow ... Memories ... still have Dos 4 on disc somewhere ...