Subjectivist wrote:I used it up until I got a virus a few months ago, then I discovered after reformatting my drive that Microsoft no longer supports XP and would not update it from the factory version to the latest version I had been running. My old computer can't handle anything more advanced so now it is a door stop, very little of my software will run on it and the explorer version is so archaic it will not interface with most websites.
I have Puppy Linux on a former XP box. It runs from a USB stick, you can unplug the noisy, energy consuming hard drive. You can get up-to-date Firefox, Chromium, Opera. It takes a bit over a minute to boot up, start Chromium and display a web page. IIRC you need over 250M RAM.Loki wrote:Subjectivist wrote:My old computer can't handle anything more advanced so now it is a door stop, very little of my software will run on it and the explorer version is so archaic it will not interface with most websites.
If you want to salvage it you could try Linux. There are distros that should work OK with older laptops if all you want to do is surf the Web.
Outcast_Searcher wrote:I'm still using it on older machines as a gaming platform. As an "old guy" in my 50's, I can still play the old DOS games I love (ah, a simpler time) on a DOS simulator, and have them run well if I use XP. (Windows 7 seems to have broken the ones I like). And I don't have those computers hooked to the internet, so no risk of virus problems.
I have been wondering about getting around this. Given how buggy Windows can be -- what are the odds I can run a Windows XP virtual machine under Windows 7 or 8.x? Doing a quick read, I see a problem with virtualizing audio. Yeah, I want to play the games with no sound (NOT).
As usual, thank you Microsoft (NOT) for making windows truly backward compatible. (NOT)
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