Hello from Aunty Jack,
Now call me paranoid, call me a conspiracy theorist.
Has anybody noticed their XP doing strange things in the last week. Taking forever to copy a small file to a USB/not changing from one folder to another as XP used to do/hanging on boot sometimes/doing odd and strange things out of character with XP.
This is where I become off the planet paranoid. The only thing I allowed Microsoft to install in the last week was an update to .NETframework 2. .NETframework "talks" to the program that needs it. .NETframework does not "talk" to the OS.
Has Microsoft slipped an end of life/XP fail/"bomb" in somewhere to force users to upgrade their OS. Would Microsoft do that. ?.
The older Windows versions (I tested Win 95, Win 98, Win 2000, Win ME, and even the unreleased Windows Neptune) had no problems. Problems only with XP even after a clean re-install.
Got to the stage where I am now using Win 7 Home Basic and loving it. Even with 1Gb RAM and an on-board graphics card Win 7 Home Basic works very well indeed. Now to find some $$$ for some old 1Gb RAM chips to suit my old clunker Dell GX270.
So, call me nuts about these XP problems but they only started in the last week. Hmm. !
Cheers from Aunty Jack.
Now call me paranoid, call me a conspiracy theorist.
Has anybody noticed their XP doing strange things in the last week. Taking forever to copy a small file to a USB/not changing from one folder to another as XP used to do/hanging on boot sometimes/doing odd and strange things out of character with XP.
This is where I become off the planet paranoid. The only thing I allowed Microsoft to install in the last week was an update to .NETframework 2. .NETframework "talks" to the program that needs it. .NETframework does not "talk" to the OS.
Has Microsoft slipped an end of life/XP fail/"bomb" in somewhere to force users to upgrade their OS. Would Microsoft do that. ?.
The older Windows versions (I tested Win 95, Win 98, Win 2000, Win ME, and even the unreleased Windows Neptune) had no problems. Problems only with XP even after a clean re-install.
Got to the stage where I am now using Win 7 Home Basic and loving it. Even with 1Gb RAM and an on-board graphics card Win 7 Home Basic works very well indeed. Now to find some $$$ for some old 1Gb RAM chips to suit my old clunker Dell GX270.
So, call me nuts about these XP problems but they only started in the last week. Hmm. !
Cheers from Aunty Jack.
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