New life for old XP

fj12ryder wrote:
Yeah, I see that, but why would you use XP to connect to the internet if you're running a new OS that is more secure? The only reason I use XP is for legacy software. Obviously there are not going to be any updates, so no real reason to connect.

New operating system that is more secure - you mean buying a Mac to use the secure Mac OS and bootcamp to run XP?

You cannot use Windows and secure in the same sentence and be serious.

With our Windows 7 computers we are all running on a NT 3.51 kernal that dates back to the late 1980's. All my Windows computers have an anti-virus add on software, add on firewall software, rootkit software, spyware software (two packages), and a registry cleaning program. I run them all daily to clean up the computers and minimize the problems. I am running Windows security patches every week of the year.

With my Apple computers I run an update from Apple for the OS a couple times a year. That is it.