[quote=“Hamletintaiwan”][quote=“Hamletintaiwan”][quote=“Ducked”]Got three machines in my (shared) office, all pretty ancient and all running XP.
No sign of any migration plan from the IT department, but since their main role/core skill seems to be drinking tea, I’m not very surprised.
(A long time ago I had a proper job doing network support for Treasury and Capital Markets Trading floors, so dealing with these clowns is a bit rough on my blood pressure, and I tend to avoid it, which is probably fine by them.)
Anyway, about a year ago the hard disk failed on one of the machines and, after a lot of nagging, it was given a replacement and re-install of XP and Office by the IT dept, which killed performance (can take 10 minutes to get to a directory) and massively increased the frequency of “Windows has installed a critical security update .blah blah which required a restart of your computer.”
Since it did this several times a day, I was rather looking forward to XP EOL, but its STILL DOING IT.
What gives, d’yall think?[/quote]
A lot of this… “Microsoft ended the support for windows xp” doesn’t seem to be correct, entirely.
Windows xp embedded for example, will be updated for some more years to come.
These versions run in many machines like MRT ticket or ATMs etc.
I think the corporate edition will be able to install updates also.
Another choice is to downgrade to windows 2003 server edition.
Anyhow, open source is the way to go.[/quote]
So the crack is here!
If you want to update your XP with the XP-embedded updates, here is a tutorial on how to do this.
http://www.zdnet.com/registry-hack-enables-continued-updates-for-windows-xp-7000029851/
To apply the hack, create a text file with a .reg extension and the contents below:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\WPA\PosReady]
"Installed"=dword:00000001
Run it by double-clicking in Windows Explorer. After this is done, if you run Windows Update, it will find several updates,[/quote]
They don’t recommend that, since they say the Embedded updates aren’t tested under XP, and they say something could break. If that’s not enough as a warning, think about this: if when they said that a product was awesome (cue in for WinME and Vista) it kind of sucked, when they say it can break… well, run for your life!