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Over at MSFN Forums, user 'harkaz' has described a simple 3-step method of applying newer Microsoft updates to Windows XP operating systems.
He says: "The constraints are entirely artificial. Porting is easy as 1-2-3 ... So Windows XP can have semi-official support until 2019!"
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How to Apply MS Updates to Windows XP until 2019
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(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Sunday May 18 2014, @04:24AM
Actually you can update the hardware on pretty much anything from 2002 on up to accept Win 7 and run it quite well for less than $100, here is how along with a second slightly more expensive route that will give you more than double the performance of the first.
Get an AMD E350 motherboard [amazon.com] which will give you dual 1.7GHz CPUs with an HD6310 GPU capable of 1080P, if your hard drive and DVD are IDE and you wish to keep them add a couple SATA to IDE [amazon.com] while you are at it. Memory is personal choice, if its just a basic websurfer you can go uber cheap and get 2GB for around $12-$18, or you can shop around and get 4GB for a little more, your choice. if you go with the cheap RAM you are looking at less than $100 to take any old P4 power pig into a nice low power dual core websurfer.
For just a little more you can get a socket AM1 [amazon.com] which you can pair Athlon quad core [amazon.com] for a grand total of $90, slap in say $40 for 4GB and voila! A quad core with HD graphics for $130!
So there really is no excuse, its insanely cheap to upgrade any of those old power hog office boxes to run Win 7. Hell if you don't want to do the work you can find plenty of 2007-2010 PCs on your local craigslist for less than $100 with Win 7 installed, so unless they have ancient gear they have to support hanging onto a 13 year old OS just doesn't make sense. if you DO have some old shit you just gotta have? Then do what I did with those customers that had to keep an old XP box around, I slapped on a 2 port KVM and restricted the XP box to the LAN. this way they can keep that old plotter or no longer supported software in safety and with a minimum of hardware.
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