On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:42:40 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
.. .

If MS would keep updating it, I'd much prefer to stick with XP,
which
I still view as MicroSloth's peak in the Windows world. sigh But
now that they aren't updating, virii are a much larger problem.

I ran XP without any updates from March 2013 to March 2014 and had no
problems. AVG caught a few things it didn't like.

I make Seagate Disk Wizard backups of C: to DVD-DLs that can be booted
and restored from a read-only DVD drive. A virus would have to hide in
the BIOS or a peripheral to get back in after that, since I don't
network my on-line PC to the others, and the strict restrictions on
the account I browse with make that difficult.
jsw


I should mention that if you go to the Windows Update pages..ALL...ALL
the XP updates are still there and are freely available.

And in fact..I updated a computer here last week (put a machine
together for the grand daughter) that Id not entered ID or MS code
on..and it updated everything nicely.

So I doubt..though dont know..that all those bootlegged copies are now
possible to be updated

Gunner

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