Windows XP finally dead?

x BlueRobot · 30 Mar 2013

Microsoft Support for Windows XP may have been extended to 2014, but it seems to have died on the forums perspective.

Alejandro85 · 30 Mar 2013

246 users MAX?????? Doesn't seems to be a very representative forum

Support, ultimately, doesn't matters at all for the user. Once the program is installed, it will work the very same way "forever", until you replace with something else.
XP is far from being dead.

ICIT2LOL · 30 Mar 2013

I agree with Aljandro Blue the government department I work for still uses it probably for obvious reasons but I reckon as long as one is careful as you are with any other OS yuo should be right.

I have a couple of machines with XP still on them and even a spare XP install disk - could become a collectors items eh? LOL!! I find them real helpful when fixing and there will always be a die hard core of users.

My concern is the way that Windows is is going now.

LADYPINKtomato1 · 31 Mar 2013

I still love my OLD Windows XP SP3, all of the offered updates..as soon as I can have someone look to see why the monitor
won't connect ( message on the monitor screen " No Signal " ) or something similar. . I will still use it.

ICIT2LOL · 01 Apr 2013

LADYPINKtomato1 said:

I still love my OLD Windows XP SP3, all of the offered updates..as soon as I can have someone look to see why the monitor
won't connect ( message on the monitor screen " No Signal " ) or something similar. . I will still use it.

Probably means your video on the motherboard is out Lady Pink maybe a cheap GPU might fix the problem if your mobo has a slot that will take one you can get for it.

King Arthur · 01 Apr 2013

I visited UC Davis recently and they still have machines running Windows 2000, mixed in with others running Windows XP. The 2000 and XP machines, from what I could tell, are being used to manage and oversee some very serious and heavy-duty equipment.

Moral is: Support from MS means nothing to the longevity of an OS that simply works, and XP most certainly "simply works".

jimbo45 · 01 Apr 2013

Alejandro85 said:

246 users MAX?????? Doesn't seems to be a very representative forum

Support, ultimately, doesn't matters at all for the user. Once the program is installed, it will work the very same way "forever", until you replace with something else.
XP is far from being dead.

Hi there
some people are still using THESE versions of Windows - but probably never log on to any Forum.

(Windows 98 and Windows 3.11)

Cheers
jimbo

LADYPINKtomato1 · 02 Apr 2013

ICit2lol said:

LADYPINKtomato1 said:

I still love my OLD Windows XP SP3, all of the offered updates..as soon as I can have someone look to see why the monitor
won't connect ( message on the monitor screen " No Signal " ) or something similar. . I will still use it.

Probably means your video on the motherboard is out Lady Pink maybe a cheap GPU might fix the problem if your mobo has a slot that will take one you can get for it.

ICit2 .....Hi thanks for your reply and suggestions.. I hope I won't sound tolly lost .. please tell me what is GPU ? I know it must be easy for you all who understand .

I actually did follow a couple of guys here last year and installed 2 slots of ram to my old XP, had crucial to run a scan , then followed up with the install myself.( using W7F assistance ), had to try 2 times then it just clicked and worked great.

x BlueRobot · 02 Apr 2013

LADYPINKtomato1 said:

ICit2lol said:

LADYPINKtomato1 said:

I still love my OLD Windows XP SP3, all of the offered updates..as soon as I can have someone look to see why the monitor
won't connect ( message on the monitor screen " No Signal " ) or something similar. . I will still use it.

Probably means your video on the motherboard is out Lady Pink maybe a cheap GPU might fix the problem if your mobo has a slot that will take one you can get for it.

ICit2 .....Hi thanks for your reply and suggestions.. I hope I won't sound tolly lost .. please tell me what is GPU ? I know it must be easy for you all who understand .

GPU means Graphics Processing Unit, it's basically just means your graphics/video card.

LADYPINKtomato1 · 02 Apr 2013

x BlueRobot said:

LADYPINKtomato1 said:

ICit2lol said:

Probably means your video on the motherboard is out Lady Pink maybe a cheap GPU might fix the problem if your mobo has a slot that will take one you can get for it.

ICit2 .....Hi thanks for your reply and suggestions.. I hope I won't sound tolly lost .. please tell me what is GPU ? I know it must be easy for you all who understand .

GPU means Graphics Processing Unit, it's basically just means your graphics/video card.

BlueRobot hi.... Thank you.. since I can't see anything on the XP.. no screen.. then I better get someone who knows how to go looking about this pc.. or would it be in the old.. specs sheet or some visual info. about the pc. ?