Posted on 01/16/2018 9:55:20 AM PST by Mean Daddy
I know there was an earlier thread about updating a Windows XP to Windows 7 or 10 by purchasing via eBay and downloading but I cannot find the thread.
Any insight is greatly appreciated and I do not want to go to Linux or any other OS. Thank you.
I own a computer repair business. I will not upgrade any XP machines to 7 or 10. While an upgrade to 7 will most likely work you will end up with a poor running machine.
Bookmarking; I’m in the same situation with some laptops.
Windows XP to 7 is about as high as I would go. Any computer that came with XP is going to be slow by todays standards anyways.
I absolutely despise Windows 10. Finally got my old Windows 7 fixed and disconnected the new Windows 10 computer. I’d do an Elvis on it if I could afford to. It comes with none of the extras like Word or Solitaire or any of the old freebies (waiting for someone to pronounce they never were free in 3, 2, 1). But the real problem is you can’t find a bleepin’ thing once you download it and if you can it’s full of ads that won’t go away and let you get to the program. Any thing you want to do, you have to have an app or something. Of course, it won’t play any of your old games.
Wish I could buy 2 Windows XP, an heir and a spare or six.
As others have mentioned, you can buy a refurbished W7 computer.
I do a significant amount of computer consulting and despise W10, as do may of my clients. It’s the despicable updates that W10 FORCES down and you CANNOT turn off.
A very good way to get around this schmozzle is to buy a Mac Mini (<$500 of a base model with 4GB RAM - 8GB is better). You will need a monitor, keyboard and mouse.
Install Parallels (a software that allows ‘virtual machines’ ) and a copy of W7 from eBay for $40 or so - typically it is sold with a used/dysfunctional computer. You pay the $40 and they will sell you the OS but if you want the computer you need to pick it up from them...
Install Parallels (the latest version) then it will ask you to load an OS...load W7 and you are off and running. Update W7 to IE 11 then turn off updates.
You will have an excellent computer without the W10 auto update nightmares.
My wealthy clients are going this route, though with $2,000 MackBook Pro’s.
Good luck.
If you choose to go this route PM me and I can lend you additional advise.
I have some old games that will not run on Windows 10.
They ran on XP, 7, 8 but nada on 10.
Can these run on Linux?
Age of Empires and a couple of others.
Nice ways to spend a cold or rainy day.
That’s what I found, unless you want to do a format and clean install, you need to install (at least 7) on a different drive and use the Microsoft migration tool to transfer all your compatible programs to the new drive.
Check your hardware compatibility first.
Can’t answer that for sure, but what doesn’t run under WINE will usually run in VirtualBox. My work laptop is a corporate cast off Lenovo T530. Got Linux Mint running from a 500gb SSD, and it’s pretty snappy.
If dependability, size, and ease-of-use are your main criteria, then the title could be:
"Windows XP to Windows 7/10 Downgrade"
What is Bing?
With all of that bloat, you'd think they could handle the older stuff with little impact.
They merely choose to make me buy anew, without regard for my dependencies. Very unprofessional for a company that touts their bloatware as one means of remaining compatible while moving forward.
I have never had to reinstall a windows OS. 8>)
It’s like google. A search engine.
Ok, thanks.
Microsoft does support XP for those applications, so it's not like they can't support XP, they can and do.
It's simply that they won't!
Just go buy their latest bloated, buggy and back door saturated OS and scrap the investments you have in everything else, like a good little peon.
Run along now...
Microsoft has a web browser called Bing, which also reports query metrics to third parties or via Microsoft.
Lots of horror stories with Bing and Cortana.
Fellow employee had his annual physical and before results were fully released, his doctor confided in him that there were indications he was developing Diabetes II.
He went to work the next day with his new cell phone while his coworker was installing Win10 and running it fr the first day and spoke with him that he might be getting diabetes II. The following day he started getting adware for diabetes II testing kits and medication.
The topic was only spoken of by his doctor and him and him to his coworker, verbally. Nothing searched by the people with the cellphones or the computers.
Bing will work with Cortana to turn on the cellphone or PC microphones periodically and search for different buzzwords into market analysis systems, forwarding your “input” for their marketing.
If you read the Microsoft licensing Agreement and the Microsoft Toolkits which are required to load the OEM version of the software by the terms of the licensing agreement, They are provided by first becoming a Microsoft Partner, then using their toolkits to install the software. Their default recommended installation includes installing Bing as your default browser. Once it’s on there, you can’t get it off, even if you re-image the OS (so it’s been reported).
Read up on it from various PC Builder websites and https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/even-when-told-not-to-windows-10-just-cant-stop-talking-to-microsoft/
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