But what updates? I get office and various 3rd party drivers no windows st= uff -- KF5QEO John Guillory westlakegeek@yahoo.com Cell: 601-754-9233 Pinger: 337-240-7890 Google Voice: 601-265-1307 > On May 24, 2014, at 7:06 PM, "Richard R. Pope" w= rote: >=20 > Carl, > I think that inactive support for XP will continue for sometime. It=20 > did so for all of the other versions of Windows. The registration=20 > requirement will eventually be dropped. Then windows update will no=20 > longer work. I would suggest making a sub-directory and downloading all=20 > of the updates to it. You can then burn this to a DVD. Do not finalize=20 > the DVD so that you can continuing writing to it. You can reinstall XP=20 > on to any machine that you desire. > What will eventually kill XP is that there will be a point that=20 > software upgrades will require Win8.x or higher. Then you will have no=20 > choice but to upgrade. The big thing that I see is that the requirement=20 > for a hardware upgrade won't be required. If you have a machine that is=20 > 5 years old or newer it should be able to run Win8.x without any=20 > problems. This was not necessary true when 2000 and then XP first came=20 > out. Hardware that would easily run 98 would crawl with 2000. Hardware=20 > that easily ran 2000 would crawl with XP. Sometimes you could add a=20 > faster processor, more ram, and a faster video card. Other times the=20 > motherboard and all of the under lying hardware had to be replaced. Of=20 > course if you owned a dell or a gateway you had to buy a new case. > BTW: I'm continuing to receive update notifications by way of=20 > automatic updates even though official support has been terminated. > Thanks, > rich! >=20 >> On 5/24/2014 5:44 PM, Carl Denk wrote: >> On 5/ Maybe I don't actually need to change, until perhaps my hand is >> really forced by something like a drive failure. Thanks for all the >> comments Joe >>=20 >> Pick up a spare drive, use Clonezilla, one of the Disc manufacturer's >> transfer program to make a clone drive, and stick it in a closet. I >> don't know if you could clone it to a DVD or Blueray disc. >>=20 >=20 > --=20 > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .