Microsoft ending support for Windows XP and Windows Vista
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There must be millions on xp.... are we being slowly hounded off
The net ?
I feel as though LM back on 56 k. Dial up
My browsers are not working as good as they used to
its taking me an age just to get on google
The net ?
I feel as though LM back on 56 k. Dial up
My browsers are not working as good as they used to
its taking me an age just to get on google
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MS is making our updates harder to get, maybe just softening us up for the April knockout.
Thats much more likely to do with your ISP or a fault inside or outside your house.
tell me how to do it ?
Not sure if you can now use anything past IE8 on XP? But I find that IE8 has great difficulty loading all sorts of pages/adverts that IE9+ or Firefox can cope with.
Whilst I know that 13 years for any OS is a very long time,I do feel it's quite irresponsible of Microsoft to close the doors on vital updates to such a large volume of currently active PC's.
I shudder to think how many 0 day exploits are sitting on the back burner just waiting for April.
You're stuck with IE8 as the most recent browser you can use with XP.... it won't run 9, 10 or 11. Which means your IE browser won't be able to render HTML 5 sites properly as a lot of HTML 5 functions aren't supported by it.
Better to move to the latest versions of Chrome or Firefox which will still work on XP
freezing up... which is the best number to download ?
Version 26 is the latest version you can get it here
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
If its giving you problems try Chrome or Opera.
You could also try disabling the addons on Firefox as they're usually the reason for sporadic freezing and slowness.
Its a bit spooky how similar the Google Chrome and the Opera
browsers look ! wonder why ?
So Chrome & Opera will look very similar nowadays.
Microsoft have given plenty of notice over many years that come April 2014 support for XP will end. Users and admins have been given ample notice and if they choose to ignore it they must accept responsibly for whatever may happen.
Dave
Are you sure you are not just suffering from this ?
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1909614
Took me ages to sort mine yesterday >:(
what is in your XP machine?
What's the point of posting that?
The point was too subtle for you?
OK the OP says his browsers are not as fast as they used to be. the internet feels slow.
i'm suggesting that the requirements of 'the internet' have moved on such that the specs i gave are now considered appropriate for running the internet on a run of the mill phone. and if his XP machine has an XP2100+ in it then that might be the reason why the internet feels slow.
i actually thought that was reasonably clear.
and then for the first hour I cant do a thing,
can hardly get onto google..
but then, after an hour things begin to be ok.
today though, thurs, things have been ok from the start.
But its as though us xp guys are slowly being sidelined
I cant even get on twitter now, it says... your old version
of int exp is nt supported !
on Tumblr I cant sign in with int exp
Is there any way that us millions of xp users can
upgrade to the latest operating system without too much
cost or hassle ?
Your old XP machine's hardware is probably not up to the demands of today's computing. My advice is to look in the January sales for a Windows 8.1 replacement. Rumour is that 8.2 will be a free upgrade to 8.1 and will have a proper start button, which was missing in Windows 8 and although present in 8.1, was not the button we all knew and loved from Windows 95 onwards. Windows 8.2 is said to be due early 2014.
I got the shop to delete the current windows op system
and install XP that I was so familiar with.
So ...............Im asuming you have to save everything you value
in documents etc... (save perhaps to a usb hard drive)
then wipe your computor completely
then put a disc in with the windows 8.2 and bingo !
Sounds easy .... any link to full instructions ?
if the hardwares reasonably new just get either a copy of windows 7 or 8, depending on if you have kids at school/college you may be able to get a license for cheap or even free (see dreamspark)
If it's got original XP hardware in, probably very slow hardware. I'd hate to do the stuff I do now on this laptop on original XP hardware. Their system must be seriously at risk when doing anything online.
Intel (R) Core ( TW ) 2 Duo CPU
E 4500 @ 2.20 GHz
2.20 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
Surely thats modern enough to take on a new operating system ?
Original XP hardware ? what is that, surely
XP is software, ie the code to run the hardware .
He's referring to XP era hardware as in hardware from before vista was released nearly 7 years ago.
http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/33438-windows-xp-getting-slower