Anyone still using XP ?

[Lloyd Smale]

mine still xp. I thought i was still cutting edge

[6bg6ga]

Mine also. Just moved from 3.11

[badgeredd]

For those of you that are willing to try something new, I'd suggest you get a copy of Ubuntu Linux or a similar Linux OS for free. My wife who is far from computer literate has been using Ubuntu for about 8 years. No virus problems, a free office program that WILL read Microsoft Office files, no end of support issues, and often, ones computer will run faster and better than it has in years.

Just a suggestion to keep your computing safe.

Edd

[Jailer]

For those of you that are willing to try something new, I'd suggest you get a copy of Ubuntu Linux or a similar Linux OS for free. My wife who is far from computer literate has been using Ubuntu for about 8 years. No virus problems, a free office program that WILL read Microsoft Office files, no end of support issues, and often, ones computer will run faster and better than it has in years.

Just a suggestion to keep your computing safe.

Edd

I agree and recommend the same.

[popper]

pmer - check your permissions for users. I set mine so only admin gets all permissions. If set wrong, the 'remove' will disappear. Change your auto update to download and ask permission to install. Get AdAware to remove junk from the browser. AVG has decided NOT to try keeping up with mozilla changes. XP is really decent, they just want to sell 8 which hasn't gone over well. Ubuntu has pretty well taken over the Linux market and/was a contributor.

[uscra112]

Well, it's been a week now and the roof hasn't fallen in. Didja see where Micro-ripoff is going to continue security support for the several hundred thousand XP systems used by the Government? Now, isn't that nice ?

[Faret]

Well, it's been a week now and the roof hasn't fallen in. Didja see where Micro-ripoff is going to continue security support for the several hundred thousand XP systems used by the Government? Now, isn't that nice ?

Nice for them!

[Bullwolf]

I continue to use Windows XP.

Looking around I have noticed many others are still using XP as well. To name a few: The casino where I played a Keno ticket last night, (Reno Nugget), my local bank was still using XP, Best Buy Electronics stores cash register terminals were still on XP, and so was Burger King, (I noticed the Win XP logo floating on the registers screen saver) and so on.

XP hasn't exploded or anything like that just yet. If it does, I will likely just scrub it and re-install the OS. I am used to it, and I even somewhat like it.

If it isn't broken now, why should I fix it?

When the drivers for software I actually want to use are no longer being made for XP, then at that point MAYBE I will upgrade. Hopefully by then there will be a few better upgrade options around.



- Bullwolf

[pmer]

Thanks for the tips everyone! I will have to see if I can find permissions because the "remove" option is missing. I might have deleted something I shouldn't have had and messed something up. It's HP Pavillion and I just made set of recovery disks too. I tried safe mode virus cleaning and looked at admin features but couldn't find permissions. It still seems to run okay though. It has Malware bytes (now) and AVG 2013.

Dumb ? - would I still need anti virus if I switch to Ubuntu Linux? I went to their site for a quick look but will look more at it later.

[roadie]

Dumb ? - would I still need anti virus if I switch to Ubuntu Linux? I went to their site for a quick look but will look more at it later.

Not a dumb question at all.....the answer is no, there are very few viruses targeted for Linux. Also, if the Linux users don't run as administrator, (root) it's difficult for viruses to get installed to the system as permissions are needed which the user doesn't have.

There are varieties of Linux that do default to administrator as a user, but few that I know of. I don't believe Ubuntu does, although there are countless flavors of Ubuntu available. Linux is, for the most part, safe from viruses, there are just too many Microsoft machines available to the hackers and script kiddies as targets.