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Thread ID: 136522	2014-03-09 02:13:00	XP support ends on April 8th !	Digby (677)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
1369850	2014-03-10 00:15:00	so my xp will fall over and burn in hell if i keep using it???? :( i cant afford to upgrade anything at the moment...........:( You'll allmost certainly be fine. Rains of hackers will not fall from the sky & beat on your door. :thumbs: MANY MANY MANY MANY pc's arnt doing any Windows updates now, nor java, flash or Acrobat reader updates & there hasnt been a plague of hacked PC's caused by un-updated PC's . When I ran WinXp, I never even bothered with any Windows Updates :I had no security issues whatsoever (I didnt use IE though)	1101 (13337)
1369851	2014-03-10 02:57:00	Also: UAC is a PITA. It was a horrible attempt to copy Linux but they made too many permissions restrictive and it just pops up all the time, so users just ignore it or turn it off. Filesystem permissions in XP vs Windows 7 are identical, they're done on the filesystem level, NTFS, that's all that matters. dugimodo, there's PortableApps (Such as PortableChrome) and there's also the fact it's a laptop. Take it outside and drop it, pop it on top of your car then drive off without "remembering it was there", anything like that and you'll find yourself in possession of a newer one relatively quick :D	Chilling_Silence (9)
1369852	2014-03-10 03:11:00	Geez Chill, I had to go back to page 1 and read my post to figure out what you were commenting on :) Anyway it's an i5 Laptop that came with windows 7 on it, If I get a new one they'll just downgrade it to the standard company software anyway so no point "accidentally" damaging it (shame on you) - in fact they'd probably stick me with an old recovered desktop form somewhere. Portable apps though... haven't played with those in a while but that's a good Idea. I used to have a flash drive with E-mail, Antivirus, and a browser on it way back when - cheap enough to get a drive and do that again :)	dugimodo (138)
1369853	2014-03-10 04:38:00	Hey if it works, it works ;) But yeah give Portable versions a go, I use portableapps.com and just download the individual packages. Works fantastic, no admin rights required, so unless they're locking down to a few "known" executables it'll almost always work! :) Even if you have to run it locally and not off a thumbdrive, it's still doable... I once had to boot a Live Linux CD just to download it onto a machine back in the day at an old work of mine, they were so locked down, but once the exe was downloaded, extracted, it "just ran" happily ! :D	Chilling_Silence (9)
1369854	2014-03-10 22:22:00	Thanks Great Idea, I now have Iron, FF, and Thunderbird portable apps in my documents directory and am posting this on FF with adblock plus installed. So Much nicer than IE8 which gives it some relevance to the thread :) If you are sticking with XP get a modern browser!	dugimodo (138)
1369855	2014-03-10 22:27:00	Office 2003 support ends too, doesn't it? Will be interested to see if that impacts anyone here	the_bogan (9949)
1369856	2014-03-10 22:36:00	Office 2003 support ends too, doesn't it? Will be interested to see if that impacts anyone here It does. It doesn't affect me. :p	pcuser42 (130)
1369857	2014-03-11 00:10:00	Office 2003 support ends too, doesn't it? Will be interested to see if that impacts anyone here Im using MS Office 2000 at home. It does everything I want , also much faster than Office2007+ on older PC's If people upgrade the PC, they often need to upgrade Office as well (licencing issues on older OEM's)	1101 (13337)
1369858	2014-03-11 00:29:00	Glad to hear it dugimodo! Another satisfied customer ;)	Chilling_Silence (9)
1369859	2014-03-11 04:02:00	There is a converter right was using Office 2003 and XP Windows when the others were using Office 2007/10. You could convert DOCX for eg to DOC. Yes there is Open Office but I found that renders the font differently. If you just opened the file and hit print .... without any editing. Have since upgraded to Win7 with a freebie with the course provider, but this 5yr old PC might have another 5yrs :D Also there's Office file type viewer - as a free download off MS.	Nomad (952)
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