All You Win XP Stragglers
Well, there are still about 30% of ALL PCs on the planet still running XP despite constant warnings from MS to dump it by this April 8, after which there will no longer be OS patches or other update s...
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Interesting! Funny, once you get older and fall behind a bit, you get very comfortable with it - and costs drop dramatically. I happened to find 30 Dell dual core 4 GHz 4 GB desktops at the local dump, thrown out by a school because they got 5 years old. They were sold with Vista and probably ran slow. I have just outfitted three of them with new hard drives and installed XP Pro to replace the ten year old desktops in our house. They are quite peppy! They compile a 43 000 line Delphi program in 1.5 seconds, twice as fast as my old machine. That's $60 to probably get five years of use. I wonder what I will find in the dump in 5 years?
I gave up on virus checkers running all the time, using half the processor speed and never finding any viruses. I do run a firewall, use mostly sites I know, and scan with Malwarebytes every month or if anything seems odd. I have very complete backups including the old computers still in full working order. And I have a spare computer or two in case any parts fail. No worries.
I gave up on virus checkers running all the time, using half the processor speed and never finding any viruses. I do run a firewall, use mostly sites I know, and scan with Malwarebytes every month or if anything seems odd. I have very complete backups including the old computers still in full working order. And I have a spare computer or two in case any parts fail. No worries.
