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Vanity - Has anyone tried installing XP lately? (Update not working for fresh install)
10/10/2013 | Self

Posted on 10/10/2013 4:46:21 PM PDT by Slump Tester

I just noticed this about 2 weeks ago. It took all night to update, then worked fine. Today's install seems to be updating even slower. Thinking it may be an issue with my ISP, I got a friend (many miles away) to do an install with his XP, and he's experiencing the same issue.

My install cd came with SP2. I slipstreamed SP3 onto it many years ago, and it has worked flawlessly ever since. I can manually install a downloaded media player 11 which makes me validate and that passes, so that's not the problem.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: computer; operatingsystems; xp
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To: MomwithHope
Norton has caught a few attacks over the years.

The majority of online identity thefts and PC security breaches occur from malware and adware nowadays. Virus detection suites are becoming passé. You could have a full complement of protective measures in place, and one errant click in an email could send every last piece of personal data across the wire or could install a program to track you keystrokes.

Everyone needs to understand that viruses are not the only vectors for PC violations. Having an OS with a bad kernel, which is essentially what you have with XP, leaves you susceptible to kernel-mode and driver attacks that no virus scanning program will detect.

41 posted on 10/11/2013 4:36:16 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: Slump Tester

You could just do a virtual XP machine on your W7 box. That’s so easy >> I << do it.


42 posted on 10/11/2013 8:03:40 AM PDT by MeganC (A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll never need one again. 969)
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To: MeganC
You could just do a virtual XP machine on your W7 box."

That's why I was installing XP. What I'm doing (since I got the problem fixed), is R-consoling over to a windows 8 box running XP in Virtualbox. I've been using VMware, but the cheese system I have 8 on won't run it.

Now my 7 box can have all 4 cores to itself.

43 posted on 10/11/2013 8:22:27 AM PDT by Slump Tester (What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
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To: Slump Tester
Installing IE 8 made it update!

Good! ;)

44 posted on 10/12/2013 9:36:14 AM PDT by Errant
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To: Slump Tester
What’s your favorite virtual environment?

None, I prefer remote access to a real box if possible. lol

Hardware is so cheap now that it just doesn't make sense for what I do, which at some point involves communicating between boxes anyway. But it does beat having to get out of my favorite chair and go work in the computer room. :)

45 posted on 10/12/2013 9:47:40 AM PDT by Errant
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To: Errant
A little more info here - I just did a clean install today on another system and after I installed IE8 and rebooted, update got to the first screen and then puked.

Then I installed a security update for IE8 (IE8-WindowsXP-KB2618444-x86-ENU), rebooted and now the update seems to be working.

46 posted on 10/17/2013 5:23:49 PM PDT by Slump Tester (What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
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To: Slump Tester

Thanks for the update. I got word that both IE8 and Chrome are crashing on the box I reinstalled XP on a few weeks back. Will tell them to bring it by and let me take a look. Virtual XP mode is working fine on my Windows 7 laptop.


47 posted on 10/17/2013 6:31:23 PM PDT by Errant
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To: Errant
I've installed a couple more XP's in the last week. Last night, I still had problems even after installing IE8, and Media Player 11 (to force validation).

I can't find the page again but I found a fix that made it update.

Make sure automatic updates is turned on, then go to the run box and bring up a command promt. Type wuauclt /detectnow, and wait about an hour. (I closed the command prompt and went to bed and left it sit.) The next morning, it had rebooted and I had about 140 updates.

If I get bored today, I'll toss another drive in and try this without installing IE8 just to see if it works that way.

48 posted on 10/22/2013 7:06:41 AM PDT by Slump Tester (What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
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