Oh I definitely knew. I swore off that system after I spent hours repairing a rootkit on my families multiple computers only for it to happen again a week later.
I moved to Unix and only run a bare bones 11 install for games which is almost not even necessary anymore
What are you talking about? Of course I noticed. It was during the upgrade process to Vista. Then the last time I turned that off was when I fully switched to Linux.
Of course I noticed.
It was right before I installed a new OS.
Yeah, wouldn't installing a new OS be the most common scenario in which one would "turn off [OS] for the last time"?
Leave OP be, they just yeet their machine outta window and buy a new one.
Why do you think MS advises to do that for Win 10?
You make a compelling point.
Not for me. I have no idea when I last shut off an xp machine. My first free computer came with 98se, and my first purchased PC had windows 7 installed. At some point, I shut off an xp machine, either for school or at the library or whatever, and I have no idea when that was.
I absolutely noticed, I was holding a Win 7 install disk with my other hand, how would this come as a surprise?
Oh, I noticed.
MFW I use Windows ME
It was a Compaq...and I threw it down a flight of stairs. True story. I was also a frustrated teenager at the same time so this makes sense
All I wanted was to play DosBOX and the fucker froze and that was it..
...bastard still ran after that shockingly enough
One day you released the latch on your 5-1/4 floppy drive and removed the Prince of Persia diskette for the last time and didn't realise.
What have you done, a cruel person. Also, take my upvote
ROFL. I still manage a critical system that cannot be moved from XP.
That day, for me, is in the far future.
Healthcare, banking, or military?
Auto manufacturing.
Well it was two days ago because I found some old VM backups and booted them for nostalgia. Win 7 really was the best
Aero my beloved
I will always miss it. I love the glass aesthetic. It never went out of style in my head.
I work in a manufacturing automation world. I still use xp.
Yup, I use a million dollar system that runs on XP. We updated the computer last year. They sent us a PC that dual boots XP and Win10. Win10 so it can connect to the internet and pull updates. XP so it can run the control program, which is written in Flash.
One of our Scanning Electron Microscopes runs Win7. Not great, it's not allowed on the network because of this.
I used windows XP today because the phase noise analyzer at work runs on it.
We're not allowed to connect it to the network, though.
speak for yourself. I still use XP.
Unfortunately I do too. I work in a lotto office. The lotto machines are over 20 years old and run XP Embedded. Thankfully the computers where we do most of the actual work have modern CPUs and NVMEs running a modern OS.
It is now safe to turn off your computer.
“It’s all safe now… sweet dreams, old friend”
I noticed. This was around 2008-2010. I had a dinosaur of a machine sitting around and wanted to see what would happen if I connected XP to "the modern web."
I did a complete wipe and reinstall, installed either SP2 or SP3, whatever the last version was. Ensured that I had the latest drivers for all the hardware, and connected the Ethernet cable.
Result: Complete system lockdown in less than 5 seconds due to being taken over by bots. The system was unable to reboot on that particular install of XP. I reinstalled XP, got it functioning again, wrapped the computer in an anti static bag, and put it in my storage unit, knowing I would likely never touch the machine again.
I know this might be cliche but you could try putting Linux on it. We have old laptot that can't really run windows anymore but Linux runs fine on it.
Just switched my win10 laptop to opensuse tumbleweed (trying it out) and didn't realized how accustomed i was to the slowness of boot, opening programs, lagging, etc
The last time I turned off XP was a few months ago when I replaced it with Linux Mint on a PC I use to play old games in my room (because I wanted to play old MMOs and that required internet access, which XP would not have been safe for.)
I just did a win xp build the other day. I had to make a floppy disk for sata drivers because xp hates installing to sata. Fortunately MSI still has the drivers on their website. I'm still looking for a decent and cheap agp GPU to go along with it.
It happened when Battlefield Bad Company 2 released. XP couldn't support it so I had to bite the bullet and switch over to Windows 7. At least I held out long enough to avoid Vista. Incidentally that was also the first and last game I bought for EA's shitty Origin launcher.
Yeah, I remember that I left Empire: Total War open for a few hours and it smelted my video card.
Next PC came with Vista and I loved it
me, applying sketchy system tweaks and wrenching control of my PC away from itself so that I can control my own settings again:
"The hell I did"
True, but it booted Win 7 next, so it’s not like I was leaving windows.
I noticed. When Windows XP came out I saw the enshitification right away. Never mind the play-skool colors and complete lack of security. I couldn't believe that people were going to be willing to use that crap.
I moved away from it for me and my business fairly quickly, and that was that.
I did notice over the years as winxp went away in public spaces and hotels. It was always kind of nice to know there were free to use computers out in the wild if one wanted to use them. XP was never able to be locked down, so you could bypass any login and just use it if you wanted to. Never for anything important, but I could always load up some games on the hotel one and let the kids play on it for fun for example.
I hear your security concerns but what timeline were you living on?
Where did you find safe harbour in this shitshow?
That one specialty printer at work that's not important enough to upgrade, but still gets used...
At least it's not allowed on the network.
cries in old laser printer
Nah I got a Windows XP VM for work! I love it!
There's still an antivirus program out there for 32 bit xp and firefox supports a lot of the usual plugins. I wouldn't do online banking but I browsed the web on bare metal xp (the unofficial "integral edition") ealier this year and it was fine. It's not ideal but for some low level office stuff with little security concerns xp is kinda serviceable even today.
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