This machine is on at least it's 3rd motherboard. I think the latest
mother board is from 2007.
I'm not sure how old it actually is, but at least some of the parts date
back into the 20th century. It's still got the certificate of
authenticity sticker for a Windoze98 Second Edition Upgrade on the shell.
Looks like my options are as follows:
1. Low cost pre-assembled system with Win7.
2. Barebones system & move my hard-drives then install Win7.
3. New motherboard, CPU & enough memory to run Win7.
Don't know which way I'm going to go right now.
Numbers 1 & 2 are going to cost more than I want to spend; numbers 2 & 3
are going to take more time away from other things than I want to devote.
Or option 4 - which I'm following right now - do nothing & trust (hope?)
that my firewall, my anti-virus program and my hosts file will manage to
keep the bad guys at bay for a while longer.
On 4/7/2014 11:41 PM, J.C. O'Connell wrote:
FWIW, early 2013 I picked up a brand new HP desktop less a monitor
for $400 with decent specs and win7 pre installed. my old machine
with XP was about 6 years old and kicked the bucket ( bad motherboard
).
On 4/7/2014 11:27 PM, J.C. O'Connell wrote:
I should have said update your hardware and OS to win7
On 4/7/2014 11:17 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
The hardware I'm running XP on might just barely meet the
minimums for Win7, but it wouldn't run worth a damn.
On 4/7/2014 7:32 PM, J.C. O'Connell wrote:
update to win7, its pretty painless and win7 works pretty
well.
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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