[deoetdoctrinae]

Hope you are liking the new 8.1 machine. My wife's new (a few months old) laptop has 8.1, and I put Classic Shell on it almost immediately, so it would act like a system she/we can navigate, lol!

I'm trying to decide what to do with a reallllly old laptop that has XP on it. Small hard drive, precious little memory, so-so speed, dial-up modem (I had to buy a USB wireless adapter so I could use my WIFI network), but the damn thing still works fine. I'm not going to keep using XP after April 8th, but don't know what to do. It would cost more to have Windows 7 installed than the thing is worth. It's fairly heavy, so I guess I could sell it as a canoe anchor at my next garage sale. ;)

[KarlInOhio]

I'm not going to keep using XP after April 8th, but don't know what to do.

Check on eBay for prices. It might be worth parting out for people who want to keep similar computers running.

[The Cajun]

Starting to get a handle on Win 8.1, after a decent amount of cussing.
The first night I was setting it up, my wife came up front and gave me the old "Hey, hey, calm down" talk, LOL.
Now have it where 1 click and I'm in the old Win XP/Win 7 type desktop.
Got a Toshiba Qosmio, they had the top of the line on sale for $700 off, couldn't let that slip by.
Blazing fast, faster than my wife's Qosmio of just 2 years ago.
From power on to ready to work, under 5 seconds!