Sorry to hear this Elizabeth.
Have you ever looked into installing XP as a VM on the newer PC?
Why do you still use XP?
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Have you ever looked into installing XP as a VM on the newer PC?
nope, maybe in the future, but right now I am too busy to read up on vm as I have no experience with it, and I am really hoping that I can get my xp pc fixed.
I hope you can get it fixed, Elizabethnope, maybe in the future, but right now I am too busy to read up on vm as I have no experience with it, and I am really hoping that I can get my xp pc fixed.
Do you like windows 11?
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no, not by a long shot, I can do most anything I want in XP, win 11 is just to many clicks to try to do the same things, just changing my display background to a solid color took many clicks. Yeah it is faster in some things, but slower in others, I had to add a reg fix to add move to and copy to to right click menu and it still takes 2 more clicks instead of just one, and it is slow process on large files, I am still fixing things to my specifications, I have Windows 11 for Dummies and I am reading it and also asking questions online. still 20 days till I get paid again and I can take my xp to the shop,
Do you think you know what's wrong with your XP machine? Have you posted on it here?still 20 days till I get paid again and I can take my xp to the shop,
Thanks, but I do know, my hard drives both died with lots of kb in bad sectors, so I will have to see if the pc shop has some ide drives and a cable that will reach my cd drive which I will need to reinstall xp. just another bump in the road,
Do you live in an area that suffers 'brown outs'? I've had brown outs cause bad sectors on my hard drives before. Anyway, hope you get that resolved soon.Thanks, but I do know, my hard drives both died with lots of kb in bad sectors, so I will have to see if the pc shop has some ide drives and a cable that will reach my cd drive which I will need to reinstall xp. just another bump in the road,
yes there were several brownouts in a row, I usually run checkdisk after every power outage, but I got lazy, plus, I believe I might have overheated the drives as my health tab in defraggler said the health was good but the temp was 105 degrees!!, go figure.
Backblaze I believe? reported that elevated hard drive temps hasn't meaningfully affected lifespan in their data centers. My drives are routinely at 105 and 110 degrees, to avoid distracting fan noise. I reckon that laptops, with their mediocre processor cooling fans burning next to the batteries and hard drives, would also endure higher temps.
Yeah, UPS's are sometimes recommended just to "smooth out" incoming power (just like laptops) vs operating on full battery power. That would also work for protecting electronics plugged into a cheap 'modified sine-wave' gas generator, haha.
Yeah, UPS's are sometimes recommended just to "smooth out" incoming power (just like laptops) vs operating on full battery power. That would also work for protecting electronics plugged into a cheap 'modified sine-wave' gas generator, haha.
my drives have lasted at least 15 years, so I believe I got my money's worth,
Hi Sock! Thanks for attributing that obnoxious principle to me, but actually I've just picked it up from the air in that infamous research asylum we've been working for long ago. Let's then call it "the exp-log principle" for the sake of fairness, shall we?
Be as it may, I accept your amendment without objection, crossing my fingers that we won't have to further amend it to "... drop dramatically" in a future I probably won't see but you will...
Let's hope Clippy's just taking a long vacation and every now and then he still lurks in here... Clippy come baaack!!!Thus long live XP and long live this forum (unlikely as it may look now that we've lost Clippy Beer