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XP, eh? I speak most versions of Compooter. Even, for my sins, 3.11 and WinMe. I had to test software on them. *twitches*. And they wonder why I drink…

I still have an old xp system that I pulled off of my network. Just keeping it around to plat Descent.

My old workhorse system, a Sony Vaio desktop, finally passed away this year after 17 years of loyal service (and a trip in a balikbayan box from Florida to Manila). It had XP on it, which I miss terribly. I tried to put XP on my new system, but Microsoft stopped the updates and registration. GRRRR. Now I’m using Windows 10 and I swear MS has figured out how to warp space and time because some _really_ strange things happen sometimes on systems with Win10. Oh, well.

As a longtime observer and tech-support geek, IMO XP was the pinnacle. Each subsequent version has added bells and whistles, AND COMPLEXITY… a less-stable product than XP Pro. Bikeboy’s Law (a little like Murphy’s): “We have made things so complicated, that something is ALWAYS broken. We just hope it’s not something serious.”

You can get a XP for Dummies at Amazon and here’s short but useful XP cheat sheet:

http://tinyurl.com/zyztakr.

I use retired XP boxes on our internal network mainly as file and printer servers. However the XP boxes are behind a hardware firewall, I wouldn’t recommend using an aged XP box online…too many open ports and exploits…and a hand me down box could be loaded with all sorts of baddies. I’d recommend keeping it offline…but it can still be very useful…especially if you have older game CDs that no longer run on Win8/10 (depends on the video card).

However one must have a current game box so I lumber along with Win10. I’ve disabled everything I can and it still pisses me off daily.

I play Civ IV, Panzer General II and a few other games on an XP.
Forget about internetting on it. All browsers out today use almost all the memory.
Unless it still has Netscape. That actually still works pretty well.

XP was pretty good for a MS product, but I’ll always have a chip on my shoulder over NT Workstation, the only real-world operating system MS ever published. Some box in my stash still contains my fully licensed NT WS V2.0 CD which would allow me to upgrade anything to whatever the current version of NT was. I even had SCSI tape drives and CD changers…at home. I think I’ll go and cry myself to sleep now.

It’s pretty much just like speaking 7, Weasel, you just speak veeeeeery sloooooooowly.

I really liked XP and Win 7 was Okay. Win 8 soured mt grapes and Win 10 locked up my Sony. I am now an Apple guy by default… at least it doesn’t piss me off on a daily basis

What’s with the NHS closing hospitals and A&E services to “save money.” I thought the whole thing was that “government knows better than the ordinary bloke what his money needs to be spent on.”
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I’m guessing “A&E” means “Ambulatory and Emergency” but would someone who knows confirm? I searched but I guess I’m supposed to know a priori since it wasn’t divulged in five minutes of googling.

Windows XP you say? My bank complained about my vista computer being no longer supported, and I should come back later when I had a new computer.

After ten weeks of agonizing over the purchase, I got a Windows 10 desktop. It was a mistake. Shoulda just got off the ‘net completely.

Microsoft stuffed so much data down my pipe that it caused financial distress, and hard feelings among family members with whom I shared a data plan.

I think its the online advertising and microsoft’s unbelievable ten gigabyte updates. It takes ten megabytes just to connect to the ‘net.

Had to install another browser because there doesn’t seem to be any way to stop the ads in Microsoft’s browsers.

I have nothing good to say about Windows 10.

There’s an XP registry hack for security updates ’til 2019, though updates are few and far between.

XP Update registry hack

And now for something completely different.

Donald Trump on a trumpoline.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3941844/CCTV-shows-weasels-jumping-trampoline-middle-night.html

I had Win2k which I loved. When computer died, I had to get one quick and couldnt find XP so ended up with Vista. What crap! None of my peripherals would work with it so it cost me lots o $$$ to replace them.

A&E is accident and emergency, or so says my British nurse son-in-law.

Oh my gosh, durnedyankee, THAT IS THE BEST SURVEILLANCE VIDEO EVER!

@ Niña,
Thank you.