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To: dayglored

I am writing you all on XP. The best of the best, in its day.

I tried a win7 box five years ago. I hate that machine. My desktop is still the 15 year old XP.


7 posted on 08/01/2018 7:25:51 PM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: George from New England
> I am writing you all on XP. The best of the best, in its day. I tried a win7 box five years ago. I hate that machine. My desktop is still the 15 year old XP.

If your XP machine is installed "on the metal", I hope you have fulll-image backups, so that when it has trouble, you can restore it?

I have an XP virtual machine (VM), and so restoring it is just a single file copy. I'm pretty much done installing Windows on the metal any more.

13 posted on 08/01/2018 7:33:15 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: George from New England

Loved XP when I had it, but employer upgraded to 7 and I adapted.
Went and bought a new laptop of my own with 7 before they became hard to find.


28 posted on 08/01/2018 7:51:59 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: George from New England

I sure wish I still had my XP!!!
Worst thing I did was upgrade to Win7 and then on to 10!!


48 posted on 08/01/2018 8:44:34 PM PDT by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: George from New England

Would like to know what you do about securing XP. But I’m with you on XP being the best. I have a hard drive that is a tri-boot with XP, 7 & 10, though I use 7 99% of the time.


68 posted on 08/02/2018 9:12:39 AM PDT by ducttape45 ("Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people." Proverbs 14:34)
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