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Old 18-12-2013, 22:38
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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
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Old 18-12-2013, 23:10
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I'm still using it with a dual boot to windows 8.1
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Old 18-12-2013, 23:31
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There must be millions on xp.... are we being slowly hounded off
The net ?
MS is making our updates harder to get, maybe just softening us up for the April knockout.


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
Thats much more likely to do with your ISP or a fault inside or outside your house.
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Old 18-12-2013, 23:32
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THAT sounds clever, any link that might
tell me how to do it ?
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Old 19-12-2013, 00:43
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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
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.
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Old 19-12-2013, 01:29
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A third of the worlds PC's are still running XP.
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.
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Old 19-12-2013, 01:42
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What number IE would you advise xp users to download ?
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Old 19-12-2013, 01:52
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What number IE would you advise xp users to download ?
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
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Old 19-12-2013, 01:59
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Ive been having big trouble with firefox
freezing up... which is the best number to download ?
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Old 19-12-2013, 02:04
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Ive been having big trouble with firefox
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.
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Old 19-12-2013, 02:14
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tHANKS for that link, ffox is working great... so far !

Its a bit spooky how similar the Google Chrome and the Opera
browsers look ! wonder why ?
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Old 19-12-2013, 02:19
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tHANKS for that link, ffox is working great... so far !

Its a bit spooky how similar the Google Chrome and the Opera
browsers look ! wonder why ?
A while back Opera started to use the Chromium source code to build their browser upon.
So Chrome & Opera will look very similar nowadays.
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Old 19-12-2013, 08:17
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A third of the worlds PC's are still running XP.
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.
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.

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Old 19-12-2013, 08:19
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My browsers are not working as good as they used to

its taking me an age just to get on google
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
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Old 19-12-2013, 09:01
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my phone has a quad core 32bit 2.3GHz CPU, and specialist graphics hardware, 2GB of RAM.

what is in your XP machine?
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Old 19-12-2013, 09:07
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I have used this on XP for 3yrs now and find it better than any others >>>> http://home.slimbrowser.net/
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Old 19-12-2013, 09:19
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Chrome is still running fine with my (Pentium 4!) XP machine.



my phone has a quad core 32bit 2.3GHz CPU, and specialist graphics hardware, 2GB of RAM.

what is in your XP machine?
What's the point of posting that?
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Old 19-12-2013, 09:51
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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.
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Old 19-12-2013, 15:51
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I seem to be getting into a pattern of going on the web
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 ?
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Old 19-12-2013, 17:51
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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.
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Old 19-12-2013, 18:00
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My comp is not as old as you think, when I bought it
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 ?
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Old 19-12-2013, 18:11
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well windows 8.2 out yet for another 12 months or more so no rush

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)
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Old 19-12-2013, 18:20
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my phone has a quad core 32bit 2.3GHz CPU, and specialist graphics hardware, 2GB of RAM.

what is in your XP machine?
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.
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Old 19-12-2013, 18:29
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my comp is

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 .
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Old 19-12-2013, 18:36
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my comp is

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.
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