XP runs great in a virtual machine, VirtualBox, even my couple pieces of legacy USB hardware works fine with USB-pass thru and the original XP drivers installed on the VM. Only thing that is a non-starter with a VM is non-standard interface hardware (e.g. not Ethernet, storage, or audio controller) on the PCI bus that needs kernel-mode drivers or w/e.
52.9.0 is the last version that will install on XP. Firefox will not update to anything higher. On my Win 7 and higher versions, I'm currently at 66.0.5. I'm already seeing some of my extensions not supported on 52.9.0 due to the requirement that they be signed:
You're talking about all the free products, which do continue to run and update on XP. However, Adobe allegedly doesn't test or support these on XP: Windows XP will be removed from the system requirements (tech specs). Adobe won't fix any Acrobat or Reader bugs specific to the Windows XP operating system. I've switched to PDF-XChange viewer (free):
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2001 Subaru Forester that's 18 years old. I'll be driving around with two blown head gaskets for another week while waiting for my mechanic to return from vacation. The work will probably cost me $3,000. I considered buying a newer used Subaru that was only about 10 years old, but decided to go cheap and fix the old one instead.
Yes, I do have and ocassionally use a turntable. Sony PS-X60 with a home made air floatation arm and laser pickup:
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I didn't know you had customers. I thought you only had sources of irritation. ;)
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Win 10 performs very poorly on low-end/low-power hardware. By "low-end" I mean e.g. a Celeron netbook with 4 gigs of RAM and a 5400 rpm hard-drive. Upgrading a machine like that to a SSD makes 10 usable but just barely.
To be functional Win 10 really needs relatively beefy hardware which disregarding cost is also somewhat incompatible with good battery life, for example.
That is to say it's a desktop-class OS that's been shoveled into the mobile world where it doesn't really belong.
d complaints about it. Of course saying that will bring all the creepy cra wlies out of the wood work. Still, what do you have against it? It seems pretty tameable to me.
My god, I don't think any version of windows since Vista has performed well in 4 GB. I have a netbook with Win7 and 4 GB and it is the worst dog ever and not just because the processor is slow. The memory gets bound up as s oon as you load a browser and with three tabs open it's done.
I would not have any PC with less than 8 GB running any supported version o f Windows and for any real use 16 GB. I will replace my lapburning PC only when store models start offering 32 GB. I manage to max out 16 GBs by hav ing multiple browser tabs open. Firefox has to be restarted from time to t ime to free up RAM.
Even the bargain basement machines today offer 8 GB of RAM.
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Ya, I'm not arguing that it's a new problem. It doesn't HAVE to be that way. But it is because it's a MS product.
I have friends and I have customers. The difference is the customers pay me while the friends do not. Both can be equally irritating.
One of the reasons I'm not very diplomatic or friendly is that it is much easier to convert customers into friends, than convert friends into paying customers. Best to not give my paying customers the opportunity or the excuse to try becoming a friend.
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I never said you weren't friendly. I think the huge amount of advice you dish out here is a very friendly gesture.
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You could spend a fraction of that on a better computer instead and stop running XP.
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Mine would not and that was the reason it gave, but that was almost three years ago when I got my first 4k display. They said they did not support 4k displays on anything other than win10.
Jeff Liebermann wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
Jeff... I spoke from memory. Perhaps MS changed their position, or maybe it was only related to 4k displays and you are still using EGA.
It was almost three years ago when that was the reason I got.
It worked on the 4k display but had the early 4k issues some software had with barely readable menus and text, etc.
82.93% wrong this time:
"How to connect a 4K screen to a PC" Windows 7 does support 4K displays, but is not as good at handling scaling (especially if you have multiple monitors) as Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.
"Does 4k monitor support work on Windows 7?" I don't think that Windows 7 "lacks" 4K support - rather, it doesn't support HiDPI displays and text scaling all that well, compared to Windows 10. (...) Scaling on Windows 7 and 10 is awful. 10's scaling is just marginally less awful.
"How to Configure 4K displays with Windows 7"
Both WQHD (2560 x 1440) and UHD (3840 x 2160) are considered "4K" by the trade press, but work very differently depending on video card, drivers, and operating system. Caveat emptor.
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Please re-read what I scribbled. The $3,000 is parts and labor for replacing the head gaskets and some other repairs on my Subaru vehicle.
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Let's hear from the people with the most up to date shit...
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So, you cannot stop your retarded baby BULLSHIT. That is a human behavior description, dumbfuck, not a "baby bull".
Your behavior is what is bullshit, and its maturity level is that of a baby.
Still is too, child.
Nice try though, punk.
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Really? So that is why NTFS is proprietary? Whodathunk?
You lie. LINUX is as you describe. Windows is only 'a common runtime environment' if you are buying WINDOWS applications.
Not 'all applications' as you state.
Since you like to nit pik, apparently, so much.
200 file systems evolved out there and they were all open and users and engineers needing access to them got it. ONLY MICROSOFT made a proprietary file system which they then refused to give the access details to.So you knowing "major purposes" is a joke when you make declarations like that one.
Hey, jefe Jeffay. You need to f*ck off and die. Same with many of your lame claims.
Or disable remote administration.
Why is that enabled by default anyway?
Sylvia.
Mine is. You can't touch anything on my shit.
Because it makes money.
Same deal with law enforcement. They WANT to bust the wrong person, the real criminal on the streets justifies their budget.
Now think about this - and I mean REALLY think about it - who profits from computer virus' ?
Think about things. Even the most intelligent among you don't get all the angles.
This is long enough, some other time.l I got liberals to destroy. (their credibility, it is easy)
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