I'm not a techie but I doubt your computer will turn into a pumpkin at
midnight. But you might want to pick up a pie crust just in case....
From what I read it looks like WinXP will simply start to become more
and more insecure as new vulnerabilities are found and not patched. And
there might be a crush of new exploits that hackers have discovered but
held off on deploying until XP goes off support - that is speculation
but some folk raise that prospect.
If you can find Win7 and if your machine can support it, moving over to
it is not bad at all. As someone else said, Lubuntu is an easy option
but you might want to find a tech savvy person to help with the install.
In my case the install went fine but I had to download a utility to get
the dual boot working correctly.
Upgrading may be a hassle but it would not be much worse than having to
salvage things if your computer got a nasty malware infection.
Mark
On 4/7/2014 7:10 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote:
I have a feeling the threats from Windoze that their lack of support
will result in all of us die-hard Xp users getting hacked to death at
the stroke of midnight is a bit overstated, or to put it another way,
B S. Given one has one's own virus protection and spam-blocker, that is.
Anyone else have more educated opinions than mine? I SO don't want
to give up XP...
ann
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