trader_4
Tue, 04
Apr 2017 15:34:34 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

IDK of any browser company that is still doing updates of any
browsers for XP.

You must not know much about the subject, then. Firefox will still
support XP until 2017. And firefox isn't exactly a 'niche' browser.


And each month, what's left gets further and
further away from working with websites that are updated. I have
an old notebook that I keep as a spare, it has XP on it and I put
Pale Moon on it, that was the last one I know of that was still
supported and they ended support for it last year too.

Can you cite any SPECIFIC websites that I could test with? I surf a
lot of different technical sites primarily and some news sites.. they
all still work. And, I'm not even running v52 series firefox on this
machine. It's using 45.8.0ESR

You may have to go to win 10 to get programs that will work at
speed. One reason I put a computer on win 10 is because Turbo
Tax said they would not support win xp after last year.


Another example.

Not exactly a worthy reason to change out the entire OS. Not when
other options exist, anyhow.

Like others have said, before buying a new CPU, memory, etc, I'd
look at what a used PC goes for on Ebay. He also said he was
going to update the BIOS. Unless I was having a problem or needed
to do it for some particular reason, I would not screw with that
either. IMO, it's very unlikely to make a performance difference.

I dunno about going the ebay route. I picked up a used dual core p4
with 1tb sata hd, 2gigs ram, etc. for under 2 bills at a local pc
shop I spent ten years of my life working in. I'd rather support
local.

It came with windows 10. Windows 10 remained on the machine for about
twenty minutes or so. It's running Linux Mint 17.3 KDE just fine now.
Does quite well as a media server for my network.

As for upgrading the BIOS. that's not something you should do unless
you have a real need to do it. If everything is working, the BIOS
shouldn't be ****ed with in that regard. It's like upgrading the
linux kernel just to be upgrading it. Don't! Unless, you've got a
specific reason/need to do so.

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