trader_4 wrote:
On Sunday, March 30, 2014 6:41:05 PM UTC-4, Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
On 03/30/14 05:41 pm, Jerry wrote:

My machine is old, 12 yrs to be exact. I do believe my hard drive is

dying. Wouldn't mind keeping my monitor, but would like to increase memory,

speed, etc. And, specifically would like all my information put on the new

system. I really like Outlook Express, but have heard it is not available

anymore.



In other words, I need some words of wisdom regarding what information I

should be looking for. And what should I steer clear of?



As you can tell I really lack computer knowledge.



Trying to upgrade a 12-yr-old computer is not going to be practical. The

easiest thing you might be able to upgrade at all is the amount of

memory, but memory that fits a computer that old is likely to be very

expensive compared to newer-style memory. You might be able to install a

larger hard disk and transfer everything from the old one, but I

probably wouldn't bother if it were my computer.



And what operating system is installed. If it's Windows XP, that will be

officially "orphaned" next month: no more updates or bug fixes.



I just had a friend complaining to me that he was trying to restore
an XP system he has and he said he tried to download service pack 3
for XP and it's no longer available. Not sure that's true, but that's
what he said. If so, that's a real bitch. I can understand not
supporting it anymore, but you would think MSFT would still make
available the existing last updates for it.

I just did it and put it on cd the other day.

Greg