"It belongs in a museum!"
Posted on 12/16/2013 7:23:42 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
lol
I can only imagine how blazing fast it would run on a modern computer
Keep it that way. Methinks XP will suffer a ‘code red’ like virus attack next year which will kill it.
I was very satisfied with DOS 5 and had no intention of upgrading to DOS 6. Then my computer was infected from a commercial CD. The infection ran processes in the CPU (DX-50) making it un-usable. Even reformatting did not kill it. I had to upgrade to DOS 6.22 to get my PC back. Surprise....
I have just about every bit of software I purchased since 1991. I have two-packs of unused 5 1/4. DOS 3.1 to 6.22
Leisure Suit Larry included :)
Why throw it out.
Ooh, I found the last blank CD, not DVD... which type of Linux can I try with it? hhmmm.... choices, choices...
"It belongs in a museum!"
Well that’s good to hear. I was afraid Microsoft would make it harder.
Vista convinced me the upgrade path from XP was to OS X.
Agreed. Linux is a non-starter for most users. It practically goes off the rails by design, leading fast to “oh, you just have to...” do something few users know, and which developers & IT revel in - hence the “by geeks for geeks” reputation. As a programmer for 35 years, I still find Linux near impenetrable without massive effort. OS X and iOS, being Unix, manage to make the core foundation easy & powerful without the inane inherent brokenness of its cousin.
not!!! i have a 5year old online XP box that has never been breached, or at least so says MS-Security Essentials, C-Cleaner, SUPER-AntiSpyware, Avira-Antivirus and Malwarebytes... but thankx foe playingstay away from questionable sites and opening email from those you don't know, along with a reasonable security suite and you won't run into those problems
Actually I’ve got 8.1, but I also have Ubuntu and have that hooked up now.
Win 8.1 is more Ubuntu-like in my opinion though.
It’s a darn good OS. I’m still using Ubuntu now though. I’ve got a disk with my Microsoft OS in a box.
I do like it though.
You might want to check what Ghostery turns up on each web address you visit.
Win 7, my favorite version so far. I liked vista more than 8.0 or 8.1.
XP was OK, I still have it on my work computer but I think Win 7 is better.
“I have a 5year old online XP box that has never been breached, or at least so says MS-Security Essentials, C-Cleaner, SUPER-AntiSpyware, Avira-Antivirus and Malwarebytes... but thankx foe playing”
The bother having to run all those security programs to stay clean is exactly why I defected from Windows to Linux. Oh, and I despised Vista. Life has been much simpler since then.
not much... i hit prolly a dozen websites and the only ones not in those twelve are links from FR my machine is locked down pretty tight but i do look at the Ghostery now and again
it's no bother really since they run in the background and i know XP pretty much inside and out so switching is more hassle than not switching and i have the disk imaged onto a detachable HDD so even in a worst case scenario i simply restore the image i guess i'm getting lazy and set in my ways in my old age
once upon a time i was a sysadmin on a VAX cluster and a coupe UNIX systems and didn't really like dealing with UNIX even then
and you're right, Vista sucked BIGTIME, glad i never had to deal with it other than wiping it off other peoples machines
When I started at IBM “warp” had just come out and a lot of our equipment used it. I kinda liked it.
I was downloading “Marvel Heroes” and the laptop has apparently bricked
The computer I saved the other day from all the malware has bricked while downloading “Marvel Heroes”
Now what?
My nephew has a Toshiba Satellite A205 with Windows 7, 3GB RAM and 200GB harddrive. We were downloading “Marvel Heroes” and had gotten down to the last few packages when it went black. Nothing was working. The light indicated it was “on” but there was zero activity for a very long time. Rebooting.. nope it did not reboot. The “on” light turned on but there was no booting whatsoever. I had just cleaned the harddrive out of all malware days ago, it was purring like a kitten before this. Now it doesn’t even attempt to boot.
I need help resetting this or making it work somehow.
“I need help resetting this or making it work somehow.”
Any chance the hard drive physically died? Boot from a Linux demo disk or USB stick and see if you can access the hard drive from Linux. If so, then you may have to wipe the drive and reinstall that huge virus called Windows. ;-)
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