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How to Apply MS Updates to Windows XP until 2019

posted by LaminatorX on Sunday May 18 2014, @12:15AM   Printer-friendly
from the Prolonging-the-Inevitable dept.

Anonymous Coward writes:

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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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by mindriot on Sunday May 18 2014, @11:23AM

    by mindriot (928) on Sunday May 18 2014, @11:23AM (#44830)

    It may be great news for experts like us, but even then I'd recommend treading carefully.

    While the constraints are "entirely artificial", as TFA stated, I am almost certain that Microsoft no longer performs regression (or any other) testing of their patches against WinXP installs. So, while you may still be able to find a workaround to get them installed, there's no guarantee that stuff won't break. The chances of stuff breaking will only increase with future patches. And since this is closed-source, I would rather update to Win7 than hack these patches into an outdated XP system.

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