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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: 2) by unitron on Monday May 19 2014, @10:42PM

    by unitron (70) on Monday May 19 2014, @10:42PM (#45409) Journal

    My point is that Craigslist, for local purchases, is only the answer in some communities with a Craigslist site, not all of them.

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  • (Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Monday May 19 2014, @11:46PM

    by Hairyfeet (75) <{bassbeast1968} {at} {gmail.com}> on Monday May 19 2014, @11:46PM (#45430) Journal

    And that is why we have Amazon, and Tiger, and Newegg, and Starmicro, and a bazillion other places that sell used PCs and parts friend. The nice thing about Win 7 is if a PC is fast enough to surf the net comfortably? Its fast enough for Windows 7. If the PC was built in the last 8 years? A good 90% of the time all they need is a Win 7 disc and MAYBE $10-$20 worth of RAM. 1GB and 2GB RAM sticks are crazy cheap, a LOT of the mid 00s board would take more RAM than they are rated for, for example I've found most boards rated for 1GB sticks can actually take 2GB sticks, they just didn't have any for testing when the board was released, and even a Pentium D with 2GB of RAM can be a good Windows 7 netbox although naturally I'd recommend a C2D or Athlon64 X2.

    So I stick by my original statement, there really is no reason for anybody to be sticking with XP, not when you can often get a better system for around the cost of Win 7 alone or just grab a copy of Win 7 and slap it on.

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